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Fitting oak flooring over floorboards.
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The hardwood flooring should run perpendicular to the existing floor boards to provide maximum strength and stability.
Alternatively use a specialist nail gun designed for fitting wood flooring.
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Hardwood flooring boards either solid wood flooring or engineered wood flooring can be fitted onto existing wooden floor boards.
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If you re planning on carpeting the room or are on a budget these are the best option.
The suitable fitting methods for our engineered tongue and groove wood flooring are as follows.
This is where you hammer nails at a 45 degree angle into the tongue of each board securing it in place.
Installing solid wood flooring onto concrete.
To glue a wooden floor a full coverage of flexible wood adhesive must be applied to the sub floor and the boards.
Glue down bond by far the best method of installing our engineered wood flooring is to glue bond it directly to the floor screed using ms polymer floor adhesive.
This combined with a fitting method called secret nailing will help ensure a successful installation for your new solid hardwood floor.
Before installing a hardwood floor ensure that the existing wooden floor boards are flat level and dry.
Most installers will tell you that the best method of fixing new oak floorboards to an existing hardwood floor is the secret nailing or screwing system.
How to lay solid wood flooring installation methods.
Solid wood can be installed onto 2 sub floor types.
One of the popular choices for wood flooring fitting is secret nailing a the term used to describe putting nails through the tongue of the new wooden floorboards to fix them to the existing floorboards.
We don t recommend installing over chipboard and instead would suggest a floating floor such as engineered wood flooring or laminate flooring.
Hardwood floorboards such as oak ash elm and cherry can vary greatly in quality.
There will also be additional costs for floor fitting services such as underlay which you can read more about below.
Standard softwood floorboards are commodity products.
Slide back over the pipe and glue wedge in place.
Glued gluing your floor is often the most popular installation method as it is usually the most simple.
For a 5m x 5m room installing an engineered wooden floor with a cost of 30 per square metre for the floor itself and 20 per square metre for installation would cost around 1 400 taking extras into account.
Secret nail this can be over any wooden subfloor using a tool called a porta nailer.
