Stretcher for hardwood flooring planks
Do they make a tool for pressing/stretching/forcing hardwood floor planks together before nailing. I know they make them for decks. Who carries them if there is such a device?
Thanks.
Dan B.
Do they make a tool for pressing/stretching/forcing hardwood floor planks together before nailing. I know they make them for decks. Who carries them if there is such a device?
Thanks.
Dan B.
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Yes.
http://www.tools4floors.com/model_200x.html
http://www.cepcotool.com/quikjackpage.htm
BTW, some creative folks will take a 'trailer tongue jack' and modify it to save $$$.
Another solution I saw was to use the new type of pipe clamps that can be used as a spreader.
Edited 11/17/2003 10:40:21 AM ET by csnow
I've used wedges to good effect; you just need to be sure that you use them so they push the plank butt joints tight as well as pressing the edges together.
did
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The 49-cent solution (not that I would ever do such a thing) is take a big screwdriver and whack it into the subfloor at a 45 degree angle under the tongue. Lever it over and compress the joint. You can do this about every 5 seconds instead of minutes every time you move and tighten a jack. You use a cutoff piece of flooring as a pad to avoid trashing the tongue on your flooring.
I'll second what DID mentioned in the above post - - using wedges. If you've just got a few squirrelly boards to tighten up, you can take a wedge, screw it down to the subfloor, and tap/pound/beat furiously in another opposing wedge to apply enormous pressure. You can make the wedge out of a piece of flooring so that the tongue and groove will match. Then nail down the offending board as close to the wedge as possible. Unscrew the wedge. Repeat as needed.
That method is slow, but it really works. Pipe clamps might work. Spreader clamps also work, but the plastic and metal ones sold at HD or Lowes can't generate the pressure needed to force re-used heart pine boards (for example) back together. They will work on good grade oak if it is not too bowed. If you've got a lot of bad flooring to nail down then buying a trailer tongue jack or the flooring jack would be worth it.
D&L
Wedge It. Thats the way I was taught so there for, that is the way to do it. :<)
Curly
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