How To Installing Hardwood Flooring

Wood floor installation requires a level subfloor and that your hardwood flooring is acclimated to the room s humidity and temperature according to the manufacturer s guidelines.

How to installing hardwood flooring.

For instance solid hardwood flooring is typically nailed down during installation while tongue and groove engineered flooring is usually clicked together or completely glued down. You ll find a number of hardwood flooring options to choose from. Now you can install whatever baseboard or shoe moulding you choose and you are finished with this project. Install hardwood floors perpendicular to the floor joists parallel to the longest wall leaving a inch expansion gap around the perimeter.

To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors. Join the ends of the boards over a floor joist where possible avoiding joints that form an h. Start the installation at the longest unobstructed wall. Solid wood flooring is made from one continuous piece of solid wood typically measuring 3 4 inch thick.

Although installing hardwood floors is generally more expensive than carpet or vinyl it should last for decades. Remove the shoe molding and snap a chalk line 3 8 out from the baseboard this allows for expansion in the hot humid weather and contraction in the colder drier weather of the hardwood flooring. Keep joints that line up at least two rows apart. Talk to your hardwood flooring retailer and let them know what types of transitions you need.

Lastly install any transition or threshold pieces.