How to Install Westhollow Solid Hardwood Flooring

[Paid2pooop]

Thanks! I've been cooking for 15 years and I'm starting my flooring job for the first time on the 28th of November . Very helpful. You show the passion in the work, I like that. Thanks!!

[sightsizemethod]

thanks for this. I have done a room before with a light coloured canadian hardwood, the flooring ran with a 45 degree angle. There were three courses of flooring travelling around the edge forming a border and seperated by a hardwood strip of mahogony. We put the border in first then lay the flooring. I have been asked to do the adjacent room and was thinking of laying the floor first.followed by the border. What would be your approach?

[9oakflooring]

hardwood flooring is a little hard to install, we may choose click system flooring.

[pavlo0001]

@jcm6970 lol, i thought the same thing. Good advises here though. the guy just forgot to hit it softly all around with the little square plastic thingy lol

[MElizabeth0103]

Very helpful. Thank you so much!

[QcWoopAss]

i love installing hardwood , ive been doin gthis for the past 7 years now.For the racking you can always get someone else to rack for you and you do the nailing its goes faster.

[jmanwild]

@ifloorDotCom where can one learn more about the screening process?

[aawwwiiii]

nice

[staciepaul]

Nice video. I love the care taken in the install. How about springing for a pneumatic nailer / stapler for your installer? Kidding Nice looking floor. Thanks for posting. I start my job this weekend.

[rafloors]

nice steps, you need 4'' between crosseams U FKN ROOKIE

[cornholio1a1]

I install floors since 1996 and have to say that this video is very well done. BUT he can 't be serious putting nails 2 feet apart !! I could live with nail every 6 inches but not this far. Especially on wide boards like that the gaps are probably 1/4" wide by now...

[Nozzle117]

Well, at 6:05 the narrator says "every 8 to 10 inches." Although the installer did appear to put nails down closer to 2 feet.

Great video still.

[ecrma1]

Excellent resource - well organized, informative and not product brand driven. Yeah!

[leisenstein]

I think it's b/c it's the hand-scraped flooring. Some floors are designed to look like this. As with any Internet picture or video, it looks much different up close. I actually REALLY like that type of finish.

[flooringchicago]

Super! I Thanks for the video presentation.

[blevinsbulldog1]

you cant put nail down floor on top of particle board, it wont hold the nail. your standard sub floor now is 3/4 plywood.

[quadruplelatte]

If subfloor is particle board,should I lay plywood before installing wood flooring? If so, how thick?

So the power nailer doesn't require pilot holes and the wood won't split? Why is that?

Thanks for the video!

[tiktak25]

If you have particle board as a sub floor you need engineered hardwood flooring. and no its not laminate... its just like the nail down but engineered for GLUE instead of nails. The cost is the same in most cases but the install cost is usually a little higher due to more work applying a room full of glue.

[n3o321]

is it okay to do hardwood flooring on top of parkay wood?

should an underlay material be used?

what do you do if the floor if its popping up and not level?

[wellington0099]

nice job  give me work

[jacobjudah]

Maybe not 3/4 inch, but he should have left/mentioned a gap near wall. This is a tutorial, add by not mentioning this critical step, he's potentially setting up someone to find problems down the road. Also, he should have mentioned securing the plank from top to bottom; he only does the one side. ALWAYS when doing a tutorial, NEVER leave out information, or assume the viewer knows any step.

[kelsiecullen13]

he isint leaving a 3/4 inch gap from the wall what about humidity

[kdfisherga]

3/4" expansion isn't necessary for smaller layouts such as what is shown in the video. In reality, hardwood floors will not expand that much unless exposed to very prolonged periods of moisture and high humidity.

[gimplar]

..like if you live in Florida?

[kdfisherga]

I lived and worked in Fla for 15 years installing hardwood floors. It's not really an issue unless you don't use air conditioning.

[ahujaroberta]

Wonderful for learning this!

everything is easy and straightforward.

Step by step directions and tips

[duncanranger]

Now why is it gonna buckle in less than six months?

[EGSOMES]

The 'secret' nailer is not pneumatic...no matter what the narrator is says...it is a manual flooring nailer by the Powernail Company.

[floorman4life]

you know industry standard is to glue & nail any solid wood over 3 1\4" in width. powernails are a weak install and this guy is scared of using them, not on my job! sad excuse

[tparks2009]

is it possible i could get a copy of this tape

[tparks2009]

hey i was wondering if you could send me a copy of this tape

[LyonhartZ2]

What Kind of Flooring nail Gun did you guys use

I know the Trim was a Pasload, but the Secret nailer? what brand. ( Iknow it was gas driven)

Thanx

[et25162008]

very special movies............thx

[dhammerindy]

This is an excellent video in my opinion. It makes the idea of installing the flooring myself less intimidating. I was considering installing 3/4" maple flooring. Having seen a home with real wood flooring I could never do laminate again.

[tedted777]

what is a regester?

[jakedtheband]

Im getting ready to renovate my new house and im going to put in a hardwood floor and im going to repaint the walls so which would be the best to do first?

[canttuchdis]

repaint the walls first so you don't get your new floors dirty

[jimwisneski]

finish from the ceiling down, so ceiling, walls, then the floor.

[aeilenor]

Can these floors be installed directly on top of a tile floor?

[duncanranger]

I put my 3/4" oak right on top of the cheap linoleum that was already there so I didn't have to use any craft paper for moisture barrier or to quiet any creaking.

[gimplar]

Absolutely not.

[ramitupursnout]

Excellent video and pointers, thank you.

[us1flyer]

Very informative video. Would you give some specification on what nail gun you used for the first board? I don't have a nail gun and would like to buy one, first for the wood floor but later as a general purpose nailer.

[nickhead69]

Dont know if anyone responded to you but that was a paslode gas trim nail gun. It uses gas cartridges instead of air. You can also get that same gun in pnuematic form.

[StevenJamesJ]

What's the situation with the expansion gap around the framed fireplace area? Is the gap doubled at the other side of the room?

As a general question what happens with the nails when the wood expands/contracts; how come the nails don't 'rip' the wood during movement?

[DareMe2What]

how long would it take to do fooring for that room?

[passionateg55]

a day or two the most. 2 people can finish it within one day.

[dovlapan]

very informative. thank you.

[pcjunkie54]

Like what was already said (You call that a good installation putting a joint in the center of a register? Seems you me you guys make a video to give everybody the impression that you know what you doing,guess what you guys don't

[Keyashii]

i never in my life would tell any one make a joint at a regester

[fuhrc08]

i know ,i know. all im sayin' so many people these days are buy junk floors that can never get a "refinish". if the slab is "preped" the right way there should be no dips or humps in the floor inturn making the sandmans job a lil less stressful. but floors with an 1/8 inch of "real" wood on the top are for the birds. and if you try to screen and recoat a floor with alumi-oxide on your coat will peel off in sheets. it must be treated with a "prep" chemical frist in order to soften the alumi so

[Lucasneron]

Do you have any videos on how to staple down bamboo flooring over OSB? I read that you recommend the staples over the nails. Is it the same as other hardwood installation?

[ifloorDotCom]

At this time we do not have an installation video for solid bamboo; however, most of the same techniques apply you will just be using a staple rather than a nail from the solid hardwood installation.

[Manwithjeep]

It really peeves me that the board lengths now are so short. I had a floor installed 15 years ago and about half the boards are over 5 feet long. Are they growing the trees shorter now? Where do the longer pieces go? Anyone know?

[lndnp]

notice how the installer Face Nailed the first row. This is done because the Correct!! gun for harwood floor can not nail into the wood as it is to close to the wall so if your using a finish nailer for the job why bother

[girardid]

informative video!

[dv8r1dog]

Thanks for the informative video! I am about to install a hardwood floor for the first time. Should I use a pneumatic nailer or manual nailer? Is it best to tuck the floor boards under the base molding or bring boards to the base board allowing the 1/4" gap and covering with a quarter round? Thanks

[ifloorDotCom]

I would suggest using a pneumatic nailer which has an angled nose built to drive nails in at a 45 degree angle. Most home stores carry a flooring gun of this type.

Typically when installing you will remove the baseboards and account for your expansion gap to sit under the baseboards once reinstalled. Use spacers to mark out your gap, the begin installing. If it is easier for you to use quarter round than this is also a viable solution.

[hookminor]

Thanks for posting this. Very informative.

I just have a question about the underlay. Does it have to be secured into place, with staples for example, or no?

Thanks again.

[hookminor]

Followup question:

If I cannot remove the baseboards without damaging the walls (because the person who originally installed them secured the heck out of them), is it acceptable to install the hardwood, ensuring that the gap exists, without removing the baseboard, and then cover the gap with quarter-round?

Thanks once again

[ifloorDotCom]

As long as you ensure to keep the proper expansion gaps when installing your floor you are safe to install the floor without removing the existing baseboards. As long as the quarter round is installed and looks good to you then your floor will come out fine when using quarter round to cover your expansion gaps instead of removing and reinstalling existing baseboard.

[ifloorDotCom]

You will not need to staple the underlay into place before laying the planks into place for installation. Just make sure that your planks of flooring are properly nailed/stapled.

[johnsde35]

Greatt video. Very informative. Does anyone know what type of wood was used in this video?

[ifloorDotCom]

This is a 3/4" thick solid Merbau floor.

Here's the specifications:

Species: Merbau

Construction: Solid

Thickness: 3/4"

Width: 3 5/8"

Try searching iFLOOR for "merbau".

[WPB255]

100% educative

[JEDARMANI]

THANK YOU BIG TIME GUYS

[ecalo34]

That was wonderfully done. Thank you. Let me start work.

[hetgow]

When installing the first board its best to face nail it close to the wall, about a 1/4 inch from the wall. Should be close enough so the base board will cover the nail. Good to double check. It looks cheap if you have a nail in the middle of the board (see 3:54). If you do this, there is no need for putty (7:25).

Still a good video :D

[ifloorDotCom]

If you were to do this it would require removing the necessary expansion gap along the wall. In addition, nailing so close to the edge of the plank is likely to cause a split, making the plank unusable.

The method of installation displayed in this video is the standard installation for nail down floors.

If you use a properly color matched putty it will be difficult to notice the few holes from face nailing the planks.

[hetgow]

I was talking about the guy nailing in the middle of the board, not the expansion gap.

No difference between nailing 1/4 inch from the end of the board or in the center of the board. At least its not a problem in the high end homes I have worked on.

Its probably a "6 of 1, half dozen of the other" type of thing. The main objective is that the customer is happy & the floor looks good.

[g35xzozo]

awesome video.

Thanks guys

[xeibborx]

youtbe is the best

[nino18654]

this video is great ,but it`s a little to fast

for me ,it does not show all the details that I want to see .

like it says wich way to start , but I would like the installer to show it wich way to start .

[snakesolid006]

this is one of the main reasons why you tube rocks not to put stupid videos about some nonsence........

[kimmayluv]

Thank you so much for this!

[nwkpedro]

Are you kidding me right now? Instalation of hardwood floors... This is why I love youtube... Freakin' awesome...

[tthnow1]

You rock!!!!! Thank you!

[eddieg710]

Very informative.  Thanks!