Face Nailed Flooring

Hairline gaps however are a natural and expected part of the traditional appearance of a wide pine floor.

Face nailed flooring.

Face nailing is the common practice used to nail the first few rows of boards in place because it is difficult to maneuver hardwood floor nail guns close to the wall. Wide plank flooring can also be blind nailed and face nailed or faced screwed and plugs. I am going to nail some temporary blocks on the back of the first row to keep them from moving. Masonry cut nail has this look.

Asphalt paper or red rosin paper over the sub floor lapped 2 4 at seams. There will be no face nailing for the first row. I then use the flooring nailer to shoot the staples into the tongue. Face nailing leaves the fasteners visible on the finished floor this is seen in older rustic homes and can be used to accent a period floor.

Make a simple guide to space the nails about 1. Mark the locations of joists on perimeter walls so that the starting runs and finishing runs which require face nailing can be nailed into joists. Mark each joist location with a string line no chalk and drill pilot holes for the cut nails. I need to reverse the direction as you can image.

A traditional plank floor was face nailed with handmade nails. When you hear the word face nailed applied to flooring you automatically know it refers to solid wood flooring a woodlike product or even engineered wood products. Face nailing by using the traditional method of face nailing we believe that this flooring can be installed in a fraction of the time required to toe nail narrow strip hardwood flooring. The proper way to face nail is to countersink the nails with a nail punch and fill the remaining hole with coordinating wood putty.

The design of. The hole size should be close to the narrow dimension of the rectangular head of the cut nail. The slip tongue is used and i will use flooring nailer again to nail the reversed one. Any flooring with straight cut edges meaning boards without interlocking tongues and grooves must be face nailed throughout the whole floor not just along the edges of the room.