Installing Engineered Hardwood Flooring

Installing a nail down engineered hardwood floor step 1.

Installing engineered hardwood flooring.

Jeff hosking a flooring consultant for this old house first began laying floors 35 years ago back then 90 percent of his work was installing solid wood strips with nails. Nail down the first row for your first row face the tongue toward the center of the room pre drilling and nailing with finishing nails about 1 inch in from the wall. Here are the eight critical questions you must research and answer to plan and budget for a successful engineered hardwood flooring installation. When installing engineered wood planks or strips by nailing or stapling it is necessary to use the proper type of flooring stapler or nailer made for the thickness of the engineered wood flooring that is being installed.

If you were to install the floor by using all the planks from one box before opening the next you run the risk of installing the floor with large mismatched patches of flooring. Engineered hardwood floors are a cost efficient way of getting the warm beautiful look of hardwood floors without the price of actual hardwood. Installing an engineered wood floor is a major project. But now half of the flooring he installs is engineered made of thin sheets of wood glued together like plywood.

Engineered hardwood floors may be installed over wood subfloors using staples or flooring cleats. A concern with engineered flooring however is that the colors may be quite uniform within an entire box but have distinct tonal differences from one box to the next.