How To Install Used Hardwood Flooring

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How to install used hardwood flooring.

Fit and lock the boards. Deliver the materials to the site and allow them to acclimate to the room s humidity. Measure the width and length of the room and multiply for the square footage. Roll out strips.

As a rule of thumb the floor boards you install should cross perpendicular to the joists under the sub floor. It provides detailed instructions for installing hardwood flooring over a wood substructure. Prepare the subfloor and fasten asphalt laminated kraft paper flooring underlayment to it. If the sub floor above is more than 1 inch thick this rule can be bent in many.

Join the ends of the boards over a floor joist where possible avoiding joints that form an h. Minimum requirements are a 3 4 plywood sub floor. How to install a hardwood floor step 1. We first ran this article in 2010.

In short to install a hardwood floor. Make sure you leave an expansion gap around the edges of the flooring at each wall. Check your sub floor condition. Lay it out in the room and overlap it by 4 6 with every row.

Make sure there are no squeaks in the. Put one 1 2 inch spacer against each wall and slide the end of the board up. It should be level and free from rot and other major defects. Now you re ready to start installing your flooring.

For your first row you ll want the straightest planks arranged with the tongue side facing. Put the first board up against the mason s line with the groove side facing away from the walls. Finish hardwood floor installation. On your first rows you may need to face nail the rows in place with a finish nailer to hold them in place.

Install hardwood floors perpendicular to the floor joists parallel to the longest wall leaving a inch expansion gap around the perimeter. It chronicles tutorials for each step of the process derived from our installation of 3 4 inch solid tongue and groove brazilian walnut hardwoods in our own home. Keep joints that line up at least two rows apart. Use a flooring nailer.

Estimate and order the materials you need. Use 1 2 inch spacers to assist in maintaining the 1 2 inch expansion gap between the first row of flooring planks and.