How To Lay Down A Wood Floor

Remove all baseboards to create the appropriate gap at the floor edges for expansion as recommended by the manufacturer.

How to lay down a wood floor.

Align the first board with the layout line with the tongue facing into the room. Lay out a box of hardwood boards ahead of the installation to visualize lengths wood grain and colors of the boards. In this case we settled on a dark distressed bamboo hardwood. Plan to correct gaps of more than 1 8 to 3 16 inch.

Hardwood floors are durable beautiful and a great diy project. As possible for best results. After the first few rows have been installed drill pilot holes down into the tongue of each board and hand nail the rolls until there is enough clearance for the pneumatic nail gun. If you have a vinyl floor you may be able to install your flooring directly on top of it.

Used when installing solid hardwood nail down installation is chosen due to how quickly and cost effectively it can be done. Remove any carpet or other flooring. A common complaint with bamboo hardwood floors is that while they re really resilient to dings and scratches once they re installed the tongues on them can be really brittle so installing them typically requires gluing them down rather than nailing them down which can be a little messy and challenging. Remove the old floor down to the sub floor.

Check the manufacturer s instructions for additional assistance. Learn how to install solid hardwood flooring with a few simple tools. Here s how to install flooring using the nail down method. This will prevent having different levels of flooring across the space where you will be installing.

When laying out the boards keep in mind. Get down on your knees and look for daylight under the level or board. Remove as many nails tacks etc.