How To Install 3 4 Hardwood Flooring

You may need to use leveling compound to even your surface.

How to install 3 4 hardwood flooring.

Remove shoe molding from the room and sweep and clean thoroughly. They are available in 3 4 inch thickness as well as low profile styles that are 5 16 to 5 8 inch thick which are a good or installing over existing flooring. 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. It is the responsibility of the installer and owner to ensure that job site.

Finish hardwood floor installation when you get to the last few rows switch back to nailing by hand. Most engineered flooring can be installed using staples full spread adhesive or a floating method over an approved subfloor. At the bottom we provide links to posts on the tools we use and frequently recommend for hardwood. We first ran this article in 2010.

Check your sub floor condition. As a rule of thumb the floor boards you install should cross perpendicular to the joists under the sub floor. Minimum requirements are a 3 4 plywood sub floor. Like unfinished hardwood floors the prefinished types typically have tongue and groove edges on all sides.

It should be level and free from rot and other major defects. We continuously make technological advancements that improve product installer owner responsibility. On the last row cut the pieces to fit measuring the distance from the wall to the board not the tongue minus the expansion gap. Grade levels where moisture conditions do not exist.

Most 3 4 inch solid hardwood flooring can be installed using nails or staples over an approved subfloor. Make sure there are no squeaks in the floor. If there s a squeak screw a long drywall screw into the sub floor and joist where the squeak occurs. 3 4 inch cdx plywood is preferred and 3 4 inch osb is acceptable.

Solid wood floors should not be installed in basements or below grade. If the sub floor above is more than 1 inch thick this rule can be bent in many.