Just finished pulling about 500 sqaure feet of solid oak flooring from the early 60s (what a job). 3/4″ solid oak
As a dyi-er, can someone reommended a resource to install it? Most the pieces are lesss that 24 inches. Made by the “Urania Lumber Company” Urania, Louisiana and then something: “NOFMA” an acromyn.
Thanks for any help.
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Buy a copy of Don Bolinger's book "Hardwood Floors" by Taunton Press. It'll take you through installing, sanding and finishing. Not a new book, but aside from improved water based finishes there's not much new about installing t&g hardwood floors either.
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Speaking of NOFMA, http://www.nofma.org/installation.htm
Odd acronym. It looks like they changed their name at some point but didn't want to change the acronym.
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Gotten some good advice here:
http://www.floormasters.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
If you're doing your own sanding and finishing, here's an instruction sheet based on using rental equipment, which you might find useful.
Feel free to contact me if there's anything specific I can help with.
IanDG
Edited 2/26/2005 9:59 am ET by IanDG
Thanks.
I just scored about 350 sq. ft. of 5/16" x 1 1/2" t&g oak identical to what's in my house. It was from a demo job, I had to get in there on the weekend.
-- J.S.