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Posted by Rossi on May 20, 2007, 1:20 am
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> > Hello!
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> > Still planning the hardwood floor installation in my house. Already
> > decided on how I will compensate for the floor sagging. Thanks for
> > all the hints.
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> > Now I have another question.
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> > I am installing tongue and groove solid hardwood and the planks are
> > nalied to the subfloor through the tongue side, which means we have to
> > always start from one end of the room and go up to the other end.
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> > The problem is how we start and finish in rooms where the floor goes
> > through doors? For example, one of the bedrooms has a walk-in
> > closet. If start to install the hardwood on the bedroom and then
> > transition to the closet through the door, on one side I will not be
> > able to nail the planks thourgh the groove. That is, the door is in
> > the middle of the room, therefore the floor will "expand" to both
> > sides of the door. How to proceed in this case? I understand we
> > cannot nail the hardwood planks through the grooves.
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> > Thanks much in advance again.
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> Not sure I follow you. You might want to get a book on installing
> hardwood floors. That said, where you can't nail through the tongues,
> then you must nail through the face of the board, and putty the hole.
> This is done all the time next to walls. The other trick in some
> cases is to use reversing splines to change the direction of the
> tongues and grooves. This is a narrow strip of wood that you insert
> into the groove of one row to convert the groove into a tongue.
Reverse Splines? That should work. Thanks! I'll do a search on
these.
The books I got only cover standard installation.
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