Installing Hardwood Floors Glue Or Nail

Nailing hardwood floors is almost always useless because if the glue is intact it will hold the planks but if it fails then nails won t help stepping onto different parts of a plank that it not perfectly glued will make the plank bend slightly and pull the nails out and it gets loose over a course of month.

Installing hardwood floors glue or nail.

Cost is considered because we all love to save money. Installing solid hardwood floors the guy at the big box store only had flooring nails. Getting ready to install engineered hardwood. Approximately 70 of the tongue and groove floors are nailed down using the blind nailing nail down method which hides the nail holes.

The nwfa guidelines state if adhesive is used with nailing follow wood and or adhesive manufacturer s instructions for installing plank flooring. Glue down as an installation method for engineered and solid wood floors involves using a bonding agent adhesive or glue that you put directly on to your subfloor before laying your floor. This is the most common way to install hardwood and behind floating floors is the cheapest and fastest installation method. In recent years everyone is talking about using adhesive to help with fastening wide plank floors.

Which method you choose mainly depends upon your subfloor. The nail down method of flooring installation. Since floating a hardwood is just slightly cheaper than a nail glue assist install the cost of labor for the floor itself won t change. So t moldings are not required.

If you choose to fix your hardwood floor into position you then have the choice of either gluing your floor to the subfloor using flexible flooring adhesive to create a full surface bond or you can secretly nail your floor directly to the subfloor. As an installation method glue down is particularly suited to either concrete or wood subfloors or any other solid surface where the glue will bond easily. Yikes that s a big word for an installer occurs not only with fastened wood floors but glue downs and floating ones as well. In order to get the nail seated properly in the tongue portion of the floor.

No glue reduce the material costs by 2 sf. With a glued down or nailed down hardwood floor each plank is fastened directly to the subfloor and not to the adjacent plank so when one plank expands it does not necessarily affect the others planks. The blind nailing technique. There are three ways to do it and the nail down method that you ll see in this video is great for wood subfloo.