Basically what you have said is exactly how it was done in the old days. The first row is nailed next to the wall on the face and at a 45 in the tongue. Yes pilot holes both places and use a nail set for both places. Once a person got the hang of it you would nail the rest of it without the pilot holes unless you were close to the end of a board or it split on you. I have forgotten what thickness this flooring was but the standard oak we used was 3/4 inch so a 6 penney finish nail.was used. You could use 8's if desired or if you drill a shallow angle. Be careful you don't come out into the tongue underneath like you might if you drilled too straight. Use a scrap board to beat the boards snug before nailing. And in the old days every 10 or so rows we would use a 10 pound sledge and a two by four against the beater board to really snug them up. If yours is the prefinished and thin this technique would probably cause some damage so treat it nice. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: BlindHandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:06 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Floor question.
OK, I have a question about laying the hardwood floor. You can't use the floor stapler on the first couple of courses since you are too close to the wall. I have read about face nailing the first couple of courses. You can try and face nail the first course very close to the edge and have the shoe molding cover it up. The second course you can patch the nail holes with stained filler. My question is, can you maybe face nail that first course, but then the second and third course, you can drill pilot holes on a 45 at the tongue and hand nail them so you don't have the issue of having to patch the nail holes? I can see two issues. First, do you not do this simply because you are much more likely to ding up the edges of the boards trying to hand nail? Second, do you need to face nail a couple of courses since that makes it more resistant to pushing backwards when you start with the neumatic floor stapler? Thanks. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
