Installing Wide Plank Pine Flooring

Lay the boards perpendicular to the floor joists.

Installing wide plank pine flooring.

The tongue and groove pine flooring must run perpendicular to the floor joists. We stacked the floors inside the kitchen for more than 2 weeks to prevent shrinkage and expansion. As a quick reminder we chose wide plank yellow pine from lumber liquidators. If you use all of the same size i would recommend start installing them in the middle of the room and work your way out on both sides keeping the last board on each side the same size.

The lengths are up to 16 long. When beginning your wide pine floor installation process we highly recommend that you face your nailing in boards 8 in width or wider. If the flooring must enter a closet or wrap around an outside corner use a sabre saw to cut the stock to fit. For example 8 minimum stagger for 4 planks 12 stagger for 6 planks.

If you use different widths of pine boards you can start at one end and work your way to the other. Attempt to stagger end joints of boards row to row a minimum of twice the width of the flooring. The 3 4 in thick solid plank flooring shown is milled with a tongue and groove. The planks in this floor are 14 wide.

Wide plank flooring must be carefully installed to ensure that the floor will not only be beautiful but will have longevity with that beauty. Expansion space against the wall. Installation of our very first white pine wide plank floor. When installing solid wide plank floors over a plywood subfloor the best method is to apply adhesive to the floorboards blind nail the length of the boards with a pneumatic nailer and face nail when you reach the end of a board.

Although this is ideal many wide plank flooring products will not allow for such a wide stagger due to the amount of shorter boards. Installing your pine flooring 1 pull a taut string across the floor along longest wall of the room and chalk mark that line. To keep the wide boards from cupping you ll face nail them with cut nails driven through the subfloor and into the joists photo 18. To make a transition between the pine floor in one room and a different floor material in another cut a pine threshold to fit between the entry doorjambs.