Nail Down Strand Bamboo Flooring
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Nail down strand bamboo flooring. Be sure the seams at the ends of the boards in each row are offset with seams in adjacent rows. Fly through your next nail down installation with this incredible pneumatic nailer by powernail the number one name in flooring fasteners. If that is true for your sub floor then you ll have to use another method like gluing or floating. If you use a traditional 15 gauge flooring cleat nail this is the size nail used since the 1950 s to install classic site finished 3 4 oak etc the strand bamboo will rise around the nail forming a slightly raised area known as a dimple.
Bamboo flooring installation instructions. The planks of bamboo should run perpendicular to any existing floor boards. Attach two flooring strips by driving ring shank nails through the interlocking grooves spacing them 8 to 10 inches apart. The powernail 50f finally brings nail down installation to click lock fossilized strand woven bamboo flooring.
Always make sure you use the correct floor fitting equipment. Strand bamboo is not so different. In some cases it will be impossible to nail down a bamboo floor because of the existing sub floor i e. You can secret nail tongue and groove bamboo floor down if you have a wooden subfloor like plywood wooden floor boards or joists.
This 18 gauge cleat nail gun makes quick work of even the hardest strand woven bamboo floors.