Face Nailed Oak Flooring

They are face nailed planks 2 inch wide not tongue and groove just square on the edges.

Face nailed oak flooring.

The proper way to face nail is to countersink the nails with a nail punch and fill the remaining hole with coordinating wood putty. Wide plank flooring can also be blind nailed and face nailed or faced screwed and plugs. This top nail face nail red oak flooring is 5 16 thick x 2 wide. When completed both blind nailing and top screws and plugs hide the fasteners from view.

While doing some work in one of the bedroom closets i d. Hi all the house i purchased built in 1939 has great original oak floors. Flooring nails have special qualities that make them suitable for the job. 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.

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. These solid wood floors are made from select grade rift quarter sawn red oak hardwood so they are not only beautiful but they re also significantly more stable than your standard red oak floor. Types of nails for laying hardwood floor.