I’ve manufactured toungue and groove hardwood planks for 12 years in my country and have had lots of business, but lately I have lost a lot
to a guy who is laying downa new type of flooring with better advantages than toungue and groove. He is selling the planks with two grooves, one on each side and plastic clips that make the job a lot faster and easy. The planks go in prefinished and can be un-clipped and re-clipped back on with no problem. There is no nails, no sanding, no finishing on the job. I am interested in finding out who manufactures these clips so I can produce the same type of flooring and regain my market. Does anyone know?
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Could they possibly be the plastic biscuts used where a regular wood glue is not appropriate? Plastic biscuts are available for Corian type work, and using their colored adhesive they help level and align the joint and add a bit of strength to the joint.
You could EASILY do the exact same thing using wood splines or biscuts..just have a saw blade ground to the thickness of a plate joiner blade, or use a 3 wing slot cutter in a router or shaper. Make the splines out of whatever suits ya. Delrin comes to mind..if using wood for splines the grain ought to run perp. to the floorboards grain.
Basically a floating floor is what you are describing. I'd be tempted to add some glue so that they dont open up where ya don't want them too, and force the expansion and contraction to the outer edges.
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Thanks, but the plastic clips described are flexible and fit in the groove on each side, plus another groove on the underside, snap on.
The clip, I hear, looks like an upright "T" that fits in the grooves, and it has a wide base with a bead on each end, these fasten the grooves on the underside and seccure the hold. I am really not good at describing, but it's understandable.
I think you are talking about a floating floor that they use mainly for radiant floors so there is no nailing into the subflloor. They are snap on connectors and they come with the floor system.