Scribing Hardwood Flooring

Most walls aren t perfectly straight but having a straight first row with a uniform expansion gap is critical when you lay flooring.

Scribing hardwood flooring. Set a carpenter s compass to the measured overlap distance. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit snugly and pin them to the subfloor with a staple nailer. 3 fashion forward colors available in 3 1 4 in. We can also supply product having close relationships with major mills manufacturers suppliers offering our clients the most cost effective flooring solution possible.

Using little more than a cheap compass fitted with a sharp pencil you can easily transfer odd shapes or the profile of a wavy wall to your workpiece. In installing strip flooring training the trades jul 18 the final photo shows a scribing block made by howard brickman a wood flooring specialist. Measure the overlap between the edge of the last installed piece of flooring and the front edge of the piece you are scribing. The block is simply a scrap of the flooring being installed in this case 2 1 4 inch wide oak with finger holes drilled in it for holding it during the scribe.

Scribing is a simple technique that lets you fit cabinets countertops moldings and almost anything else to crooked walls. Design your floor to your unique tastes with a variety of width and color options. Roe osborn senior editor at jlc responds. Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple.

Enjoy watching and you ll can do it yourself. Scribing is not that hard. Scribing is a technique used when you re installing laminate flooring against an uneven wall. You may also need to scribe for floor registers or any walls in the middle of your project room or hallway.

Wide traditional smooth faced hardwood. It is usually needed on the first and the final row of the project. Wide scraped solid hardwood and 3 additional popular colors available in 2 1 4 in 3 1 4 in.