Hey all,
I just got my delivery of 5″ Brazilian Cherry, 5″ Hickory, 5″ American Walnut. What type of install tips would you all have for this width material. I’m used to 2″- 4″ widths. This is a new beast to me (or is it?). Face nails needed? Glue used anywhere? Even down to what nails you’d prefer. Any info would be huge….
Thanks in advance,
Erik
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bump -- I doing the same thing -- should be the same as the narrower floor -- I'm doing nails every 12" -- rest will say what does the supplier say about installing -- really can't go wrong by calling the supplier's 800#
The first thing is to acclimatise the timber in the area where it's going to be used for at least a week.
Personally, I'd blind nail at 16" centers and use a bead of construction adhesive -- also at 16" centers, rather than face-nail.
You will have more movement, of course than the 2"-4" widths you're used to so I'd use folding wedges to cramp it up as tight as possible at this time of year.
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Edited 2/3/2005 4:16 pm ET by IanDG
Do you mean brace the hardwood to the subfloor? - Precautionary to avoid the cupping?
Const. Adhesive along joist run.....then floors installed perpendicular to the glue right? - I have engineered kerfs like the smaller traditional oak/mahogany floor on underside to aid in movement. Will the glue block up some of that air passage under the floor? Am I way off base with that? heheheee
-Erik
The wedging is to cramp the timber up tight before nailing.
The construction adhesive is a bead across the width of the board every 16"
IanDG
If the wood is prone to cupping I would rather it cups prior to installation and return cupped wood for credit than to go to some elaborate lengths to prevent it from cupping and then find out after install that the wood tends to cup.
I've seen 5 and six inch wide boards installed with the normal nailer on the spline method but it seems 6 inches is the absolute maximum that it can be so installed.. Then only if the floor isn't used as a heat source such as wirsbo or other types of radiant flooring..
Wider than 6 inches you are generally talking about either face nailing , face screwing (with wood plugs to cover the screws) or you might try my method of wide plank install.. drill a series of holes in the sub floor according to your "nailing" schedule and then from the bottom up installing screws to hold the planks down. Lot more work but it's a way to not have any fasteners showing on wide boards..
I dislike using any form of adhesive simply because all glues will dry out and give up eventually some may take a very long time but I've seen failures of contruction adhesives is a relatively short period of time.. when they fail you hear this nasty cracking sound as the glue is pressed back into and out contact..