Hand Nailing Bamboo Flooring

You ll need a nail set when hand nailing flooring and you should use it when the head is about 1 2 inch out.

Hand nailing bamboo flooring.

The most important tools for nailing down strand woven bamboo. Direction of the flooring should be installed at a 90 degree right angle to the floor joists. Determine a starting wall. If you try to nail any deeper than that without a nail set you ll probably hit the.

Place the grooved side of bamboo planks against the spacers. Nail down installation strand woven bamboo. The cost of bamboo flooring is 5 to 8 per square foot which is about the same as most common hardwood flooring types. High powered 18 gage pneumatic floor nailer we highly recommend the primatech q550 alr.

Expansion gaps of 3 4 are required between flooring and all walls in room. If however surface dimpling still occurs when using the recommended nailers bamboo can be installed by pre drilling and hand nailing using a 3 32 drill bit and 6d finish nails pic 1 or can be directly glued to the subfloor using our recommended bamboo adhesive. It s sometimes hard to find. Pro installation adds 3 to 5 per square foot.

Installing bamboo flooring means gluing or nailing to a subfloor. Carbonized bamboo flooring is softer than natural bamboo. As you join planks end to end spread a small amount of tongue and groove flooring glue along the bottom portion of the groove before. Drive your nail in until you have only a 25 of a inch or so sticking out.