Many homeowners are drawn to bruce solid hardwood for its enduring durability the value it adds and of course how amazing it looks in their homes.
Bruce hardwood nails or staples.
With a large selection of solid and engineered hardwood as well as cleaning supplies and resources bruce is here to help you bring your ideas to life.
Nailers use different types of flooring nails including those with a smooth spiral or barbed shank.
Hardwood installation that requires staples nails or glue can be challenging even for experienced diyers.
Nail or staple down solid hardwood with this method solid hardwood planks are attached to the subfloor with fasteners like nails staples or cleats which are not visible after installation.
Spirals and barbs grip the board and subfloor to resist working loose.
The national wood flooring association guidelines recommend that nails or staples should be spaced between eight and ten inches for solid hardwood strips and planks.
For engineered flooring and thinner solid wood flooring as 4590t highpro pneumatic flooring stapler.
For engineered strips and planks the recommended spacing is between four and eight inches.
Staples allow an experienced installer to put in about 500 square feet of flooring in an 8 hour day.
The other is engineered hardwood which has a layered construction and is also very durable and stylish.
Solid hardwood flooring is one of two types of hardwood flooring we offer.
But as staples are more comfortable to manufacture you can get staples with a lower budget compared to cleats.
Using a pneumatic tool staples are used to secure hardwood flooring to a plywood subfloor.
This method is often used with plywood over concrete or screed sleepers on commercial jobs.
Floors that are of hardwood and have a thickness of 0 75 inches are suitable for staples.
Staples are affordable easy to load and widely available at any building material retailer.
Some hardwoods require different settings and it s best to test first before running into mistakes that can cause installation problems later.
But the floors which are thicker than this size requires staples.