Building and Construction - Hardwood Floors Puzzle

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Hardwood Floors Puzzle

Rossi

2007-05-19, 9:25 pm

Hello!

Still planning the hardwood floor installation in my house. Already
decided on how I will compensate for the floor sagging. Thanks for
all the hints.

Now I have another question.

I am installing tongue and groove solid hardwood and the planks are
nalied to the subfloor through the tongue side, which means we have to
always start from one end of the room and go up to the other end.

The problem is how we start and finish in rooms where the floor goes
through doors? For example, one of the bedrooms has a walk-in
closet. If start to install the hardwood on the bedroom and then
transition to the closet through the door, on one side I will not be
able to nail the planks thourgh the groove. That is, the door is in
the middle of the room, therefore the floor will "expand" to both
sides of the door. How to proceed in this case? I understand we
cannot nail the hardwood planks through the grooves.

Thanks much in advance again.

marson

2007-05-19, 9:25 pm

On May 19, 8:41 pm, Rossi <msros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Still planning the hardwood floor installation in my house. Already
> decided on how I will compensate for the floor sagging. Thanks for
> all the hints.
>
> Now I have another question.
>
> I am installing tongue and groove solid hardwood and the planks are
> nalied to the subfloor through the tongue side, which means we have to
> always start from one end of the room and go up to the other end.
>
> The problem is how we start and finish in rooms where the floor goes
> through doors? For example, one of the bedrooms has a walk-in
> closet. If start to install the hardwood on the bedroom and then
> transition to the closet through the door, on one side I will not be
> able to nail the planks thourgh the groove. That is, the door is in
> the middle of the room, therefore the floor will "expand" to both
> sides of the door. How to proceed in this case? I understand we
> cannot nail the hardwood planks through the grooves.
>
> Thanks much in advance again.

Not sure I follow you. You might want to get a book on installing
hardwood floors. That said, where you can't nail through the tongues,
then you must nail through the face of the board, and putty the hole.
This is done all the time next to walls. The other trick in some
cases is to use reversing splines to change the direction of the
tongues and grooves. This is a narrow strip of wood that you insert
into the groove of one row to convert the groove into a tongue.

Rossi

2007-05-20, 3:25 am

On May 19, 6:56 pm, marson <briankon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 19, 8:41 pm, Rossi <msros...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not sure I follow you. You might want to get a book on installing
> hardwood floors. That said, where you can't nail through the tongues,
> then you must nail through the face of the board, and putty the hole.
> This is done all the time next to walls. The other trick in some
> cases is to use reversing splines to change the direction of the
> tongues and grooves. This is a narrow strip of wood that you insert
> into the groove of one row to convert the groove into a tongue.

Reverse Splines? That should work. Thanks! I'll do a search on
these.

The books I got only cover standard installation.

CWatters

2007-05-20, 9:25 am

"Rossi" <msrossi1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> The problem is how we start and finish in rooms where the floor goes
> through doors?

Glue down the first plank and place heavy weights on it to be sure it's in
contact with the sub floor. We used large piles of blocks/bricks over each
floor joist. Allow 24 hours or more to dry then secret nail (and glue?) the
rest.

The last plank may well have to be trimmed to fit and can be fixed same way
as the first.

If you don't want to glue the first and last then nail through the face,
punch nails below surface and fill.

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