Face Nails For Pine Flooring

The most popular floor to face nail is our historic eastern white pine flooring especially if you are trying to create a vintage or restoration style floor.

Face nails for pine flooring.

Shanks measure from 1 to 4 inches on up to 8 inches for post and beam. Nail heads can be domed flat hammered for an authentic look or have a bump for decorative purposes. A nail heads will make quick work out of your belts and b the iron will drag out into the wood fibers and make rust streaks. Wider heads are used for face nailing floors.

Hammer the cut nails flush with the pine flooring and countersink 1 8 in. The decision to face nail a floor all depends on the overall look you want to create your personal preference and the type thickness of your subfloor. After that liquid nail the pine boards along with nails. A 4 wide plank is still begging to be face pegged as i mentioned also in the article.

I laid down a moisture barrier underlayment found at lowes. When beginning your wide pine floor installation process we highly recommend that you face your nailing in boards 8 in width or wider. Jason even bought a floor stapler to help with the job my husband really needs no excuse to buy tools in the end it was cheaper to buy a stapler rather than renting one because we worked on the floors over the course of many weekends christmas break. If you plan to use steel nails and a waterbased finish sink them below your finished floor.

Masonry cut nail has this look. Sink them with the long side with the grain. Then screwed plywood through it to the concrete. Below the surface with a heavy punch or countersink.

So if all this sounds like too much work just buy the standard 3 1 4 wide t g strip floor and blind nail it simply and easily with the flooring nailer. A traditional plank floor was face nailed with handmade nails. Cut nails were often used too very similar to today s cut nails for concrete. Mark each joist location with a string line no chalk and drill pilot holes for the cut nails.

I can address installing pine on concrete slab. If you want to face nail the entire floor drill pilot holes and use two nails side by side every 8 to 16 inches across the length sinking into the floor joists wherever present. In addition we recommend that you nail into every joist 16 o c or at least into every other joist 32 o c. Have to use a hammer drill to predrill the holes followed by concrete screws.

It just depends on how narrow you indoor humidly range is. Hairline gaps however are a natural and expected part of the traditional appearance of a wide pine floor. Nail heads are determined by the type of nail finishing flooring etc and style.