Hello
I have 1000 board ft of 4†Jatoba (Brazilian cherry) ¾â€ solid, nail down, that I am getting ready to have installed. House on piers 3 ft off ground, South Louisiana.
It is tongue and grove but the ends (the 4†edge) ARE NOT tongue and grove.
Is this a problem?
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The flooring is a no name product and is about 6 years old, it has been stored in my garage for 2 years.
I was thinking of routing a grove in the ends and having the installers use splines.
Would this be necessary?
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I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, comments.
Thanks in advance
Danny
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I'd be afraid that the ends butted up to each other would move just enough to squeek when rubbing on each other.
I'd probably do the splines, but they're going to hate taking the time to do it.
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Likely not but if you wanted some additional stability you could have them connect the ends with bisquits.. fast and simple to do.. plus it will give you all of the stability you could ever seek..
You do realize that the reason for tongue and groove on the sides is because wood shrinks and swells sideways with humidity almost nothing at all lengthwise.. That's th reason a lot of installers don't mess with it..
I have used biscuits on this very wood works great,& you need only glue one side so it inserts just like regular (end matched flooring). or if you have a shaper or router table/or use of them ,it is pretty easy to end match your self . 1000" would take about an hour & a half including set up. good luck you well love it when finished. Dan
I have about 1200 SF of 3, 4 & 5" oak in my house that is not end matched.
It was #1 common and I chopped all but the tightest knots out. I just cut with a chop saw on the floor, face side up. Left the end of the board sit on the floor to give a bevel so only the top edge on the end of the boards would touch when laid.
You cut just set a slight bevel on your saw maybe. A lot easier than biscuiting or routing splines or......
I use a 2° back bevel like that
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I have 700 ft of white oak 3" wide installed with the back bevel on the ends - no T&G. No squeaks or other problems here.
And, I'm sort of ashamed to confess, its installed over particle board - no problems there either.
If you do a back bevel, won't there be a gap between boards after a sanding or two?
Not soes you'd notice it. I picked up the idea from working old houses that had been done that way long before you could buy jointed ends when the wood flooring was ten feet long minimum.
Check it out for yourself. Take two pieces and back bevel 2°, then fit them together on a flatr surface, shine a light from the other side and see if you notice a discernable gap at a third of trhe way down into the material.
Yep, it is barely there with the light showing thru and your eyeball six inches away, but for a lfoor and having the eye five feet up, all you see is like a fine pencil line. I've seen more than that from poorly fitted T&G joining on ends.
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let me make sure I understand this, you take each piece and back bevel each end as your laying it down, the bevel stops the potential squeaking. Something normally accomplished by end match T&G or biscuits.
Yes. a squeak can come from the two butt ends rubbing each other from movement aas walking distresses the flooring. But with the minor back-bevel, the only spot touching is immediately att eh surface. deeper dopwn, there is a tiny space between bords so they do not quite touch, so no rub and no noise.
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