Regardless if installing a 3 wide engineered hardwood or a 5 wide engineered hardwood plank you are not using any more fasteners despite the increased width.
How to install 5 wide hardwood floors.
Starting the install constitutes that you have accepted the jobsite conditions.
Hardwood floors are durable beautiful and a great diy project.
But you must have very flat clean floors and i have primed before gluing to wood.
This is recommended on all wide plank solid and engineered floors 5 and wider installed on a plywood or osb subfloor.
In renovation work most product is staple nail down over wood subfloors.
Like unfinished hardwood floors the prefinished types typically have tongue and groove edges on all sides.
The difference between wide and narrow plank hardwood flooring.
Because wide plank flooring has become the most common product sold and installed today the evolution of our guidelines will continue to explore the many methods used to install them.
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.
Entails using adhesive in addition to nails even if you re installing a solid wide plank floor.
This was our first time installing hardwood floors and i.
How to install click lock engineered hardwood flooring easy home renovation project for beginners.
I can t ever recall gluing down wood that wide especially on wood.
You have 5 wide boards too.
Solid wood floors should not be installed in basements or below grade.
And panel products subflooring are prepared to proceed.
Learn how to install solid hardwood flooring with a few simple tools.
In a residential setting you can glue down hardwood this is really a call the manufacturer makes.
The product is properly acclimated moisture testing is complete.
The difference between wide and narrow plank flooring may at first glance seem obvious.
They are available in 3 4 inch thickness as well as low profile styles that are 5 16 to 5 8 inch thick which are a good or installing over existing flooring.