How To Installing Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood flooring installation is a big project but you can install solid hardwood floors yourself to save money with this step by step video.

How to installing hardwood flooring.

Wood floor installation requires a level subfloor and that your hardwood flooring is acclimated to the room s humidity and temperature according to the manufacturer s guidelines. Start the installation at the longest unobstructed wall. To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors. Talk to your hardwood flooring retailer and let them know what types of transitions you need.

Join the ends of the boards over a floor joist where possible avoiding joints that form an h. These may be additional items you need to purchase as part of your flooring order. You ll find a number of hardwood flooring options to choose from. Now you can install whatever baseboard or shoe moulding you choose and you are finished with this project.

Solid wood flooring is made from one continuous piece of solid wood typically measuring 3 4 inch thick. Keep joints that line up at least two rows apart. Lastly install any transition or threshold pieces. Install hardwood floors perpendicular to the floor joists parallel to the longest wall leaving a inch expansion gap around the perimeter.

Remove the shoe molding and snap a chalk line 3 8 out from the baseboard this allows for expansion in the hot humid weather and contraction in the colder drier weather of the hardwood flooring.