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Posted by on September 30, 2006, 11:00 am
home depot, rents them fairly cheap. for a square area, it goes realy
fast. the tool uses a hammer to pull the boards together as it nails
them, creating a tighter board to board connection than hand or air
tools can, it also drives all the nails at the correct angle every
time.
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Heathcliff wrote:
> yaofeng wrote:
> > Talked to my local lumber yard and bought tongue and groove mohogany
> > for the front porch flooring of my rental. It is not big, 7 by 7. Any
> > tips on installation? The lumber yard suggested stainless steel screws
> > at every joist.
>
> Usually tongue and groove flooring of any kind is installed by nailing
> at an angle through the tongue, so that no nails show when the floor is
> finished. Tool rental places can rent you a special gadget for doing
> the nailing. Installing nails or screws by hand at an angle like that
> would be difficult and time consuming, and for screws might not work at
> all (the screw head would probably mess up the tongue so that the
> groove of the next board would not fit over it right). Installing
> screws from above, so that they show when the floor is finished, would
> look really really bad. So: call a tool rental place and explain what
> you're doing, they'll fix you up.
>
> -- H
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