Face Nailed Flooring

Masonry cut nail has this look.

Face nailed flooring.

I need to reverse the direction as you can image. When you hear the word face nailed applied to flooring you automatically know it refers to solid wood flooring a woodlike product or even engineered wood products. Asphalt paper or red rosin paper over the sub floor lapped 2 4 at seams. When completed both blind nailing and top screws and plugs hide the fasteners from view.

I then use the flooring nailer to shoot the staples into the tongue. Mark each joist location with a string line no chalk and drill pilot holes for the cut nails. There will be no face nailing for the first row. Mark the locations of joists on perimeter walls so that the starting runs and finishing runs which require face nailing can be nailed into joists.

The slip tongue is used and i will use flooring nailer again to nail the reversed one. Face nailing by using the traditional method of face nailing we believe that this flooring can be installed in a fraction of the time required to toe nail narrow strip hardwood flooring. The design of. Wide plank flooring can also be blind nailed and face nailed or faced screwed and plugs.

Hairline gaps however are a natural and expected part of the traditional appearance of a wide pine floor. I am going to nail some temporary blocks on the back of the first row to keep them from moving. Face nailing leaves the fasteners visible on the finished floor this is seen in older rustic homes and can be used to accent a period floor. Any flooring with straight cut edges meaning boards without interlocking tongues and grooves must be face nailed throughout the whole floor not just along the edges of the room.

A traditional plank floor was face nailed with handmade nails. The hole size should be close to the narrow dimension of the rectangular head of the cut nail. The saving in labor is significant. Staple down 15 lb.