Secret Nailing Engineered Flooring

Fourteen secret nail wide board overlay has been specifically developed and manufactured to provide a wide board flooring product with improved stability.

Secret nailing engineered flooring. If you choose to fix your hardwood floor into position you then have the choice of either gluing your floor to the subfloor using flexible flooring adhesive to. For boards up to a width of 160mm this is the only fixing that is required. The most common method used nowadays for the fixing of solid oak flooring is the secret fixing method. Secret nailing down your hardwood floor is ideal if you have a wooden subfloor plywood wooden floor boards or joists but it is not a suitable method of installation if you have chipboard or a concrete subfloor.

Secret nailing is a nail down installation also known as blind nailing because the nail remains invisible once the floor is laid. Domont engineered rustic grade. Another method is the floating floor method although this is only suitable for engineered oak flooring. It is applicable for any tongue and groove solid wood or engineered floor installation.

It is supplied in blocks 260mm long x 65mm wide x18mm thick. Engineered hardwood floors can be glued or nailed into position but they also have the option of being floated over an underlay. Due to the board being thinner we are able to achieve better drying with a more consistent moisture content through the floor board. This method uses the special tool which quickly positions and fits a special kind of nail into 45 degree position above the.

When nailing a specific flooring nailer is required is drive the nails. In order to nail your hardwood floor down it must be at least 18mm thick and you should run the planks of flooring perpendicular. Solid hardwood floors must be fixed into position by either gluing or nailing down to the subfloor. When you nail tongue and groove flooring properly the nails are invisible so american floor installers call the process blind nailing while british installers call it secret nailing.

Traditionally oak flooring was laid using the surface fixing method. Flooring product that is designed to be laid directly over a flat and level concrete slab plywood or particleboard flooring. This method involves nailing through the top surface of the board at even spacing into the floor joists below.