How To Install Used Hardwood Flooring

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How to install used hardwood flooring.

In short to install a hardwood floor. How to install a hardwood floor step 1. We first ran this article in 2010. Prepare the subfloor and fasten asphalt laminated kraft paper flooring underlayment to it.

Deliver the materials to the site and allow them to acclimate to the room s humidity. 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. Put the first board up against the mason s line with the groove side facing away from the walls. Check your sub floor condition.

Now you re ready to start installing your flooring. Use 1 2 inch spacers to assist in maintaining the 1 2 inch expansion gap between the first row of flooring planks and. Lay it out in the room and overlap it by 4 6 with every row. Fit and lock the boards.

Keep joints that line up at least two rows apart. On your first rows you may need to face nail the rows in place with a finish nailer to hold them in place. Put one 1 2 inch spacer against each wall and slide the end of the board up. You may need to use leveling compound to even your surface.

Before starting calculate the width the last row will be. For your first row you ll want the straightest planks arranged with the tongue side facing. At the bottom we provide links to posts on the tools we use and frequently recommend for hardwood. Join the ends of the boards over a floor joist where possible avoiding joints that form an h.

Measure the width and length of the room and multiply for the square footage. It provides detailed instructions for installing hardwood flooring over a wood substructure. Make sure you leave an expansion gap around the edges of the flooring at each wall. Minimum requirements are a 3 4 plywood sub floor.

Finish hardwood floor installation. Use a flooring nailer. Install hardwood floors perpendicular to the floor joists parallel to the longest wall leaving a inch expansion gap around the perimeter. When ordering hardwood flooring.

Estimate and order the materials you need. As a rule of thumb the floor boards you install should cross perpendicular to the joists under the sub floor.