Laying Out Hardwood

Boards with defects and large knots can be used in less conspicuous areas along the wall.

Laying out hardwood.

Lay out the boards in the order you will install them. I make good use of both my table saw and miter saw when racking. Lay out the boards in a few rows and randomly stagger boards by shade while staggering the board ends by 4 6 or more between adjacent rows. Begin by spreading the boards from several cases across the room.

Lay out a box of hardwood boards ahead of the installation to visualize lengths wood grain and colors of the boards. You want to take your time racking i lay out at least 6 12 rows before i nail and i would rack out a entire room if it wasn t too large. An open concept space can appear to flow smoothly into one large area if your wood flooring is installed from the long end of the space to the other. Fortunately powernail sent me their new model 2000f 20ga.

Start racking or laying out your floor before you start nailing or stapling. This nailer is much smaller than a traditional hardwood flooring nailer and doesn t require a mallet to hit the nail gun and shoot the nails. When laying out the boards keep in mind to never have the ends of boards in adjacent rows line up with each other. Now you ll need to figure out how to lay hardwood floors for your room size shape.

Two people this job much easier. Hardwood floor nailer to test out which they claim is specifically designed to install brittle tongued flooring.