Installing tongue and groove flooring.
How to make tongue and groove wood flooring.
Any rubbish under the wood can cause errors in your cuts.
This removes the groove which you ll re create in the next step.
Fill the nail holes with this color matched wood filler using a putty knife.
Tongue and groove joints can easily be made with a router when using the right bits on a proper router table.
For most flooring the dimensions of.
Cut the wedge from a scrap of flooring with the groove left on.
If you have already milled lumber tongue and groove and ready to go for flooring it would be no issue.
I have commented twice about questions concerning the fact that a simple butt joint between the boards is not a good idea as seasonal expansion and contraction of the wood will cause cracks to open up which will trap dirt.
Make sure your routing table is clear of sawdust and other debris.
Maybe 150 sq feet but not 350 sq feet of floor.
Make your own slip tongues by ripping strips from the flooring that will fit snugly inside the grooves of the flooring boards and extend 1 4 inch from the edge.
Now cut the new boards to width by running the tongue side against the fence.
Measure the face width of the existing flooring add the width of its tongue then set the table saw s fence that same distance away from the blade.
Rip the new boards.
Another function for this joint is seen in hardwood floors.
Drive the wedge between the flooring board and a scrap board screwed to the subfloor.
Wedge bowed boards straight wedge the boards together if necessary to straighten bowed boards.
To begin making tongue and groove boards you first must decide to use either a table saw or a router.
We installed gorgeous reclaimed tongue and groove oak flooring in our new office and we share with you the basic steps you can take to install flooring in.
Its a lot of work and even with 3 people it took weeks.
Popular uses for this joint are in the creation of doors panels and table tops.
This is why wood flooring is made with a tongue and groove joint to accommodate for this movement.
Creating your own hardwood floors tongue and groove joint.
But if you are glutton for punishment or have a wood shop with a next level planer and a next level router shaper this project is very doable.