How To Staple Bamboo Flooring

If possible this is the ideal installation method.

How to staple bamboo flooring.

All solid strand. Tongue and groove flooring staple nail down. Tongue and groove milling is highly versatile allowing the floors to be stapled or nailed down glued and sometimes floated. In this article we re going to focus on which janka tests show is the hardest wood flooring on the market by far.

If you have a plywood or osb subfloor on or above grade ground level a nail down installation of your new trinity bamboo solid strand bamboo flooring provides one of the most cost effective and resilient installation methods available. You must have a wood or plywood subfloor in order to staple or nail onto. Natural bamboo flooring is a durable and long lasting option for your home. Always follow your flooring manufacturer s recommendations when choosing between staples and cleats.

Staple the underlayment to the floor along the seams using a staple gun or hammer tacker. However as normally set up it will do a very nice job of popping the tongue right off the bamboo the staple driver has just a bit too much reach for the thickness of the bamboo. I decided to nail the stuff down on a second floor 5 8 plywood substrate. Installing bamboo over joists bamboo flooring must be at least 18mm thick and have a tongue and groove profile if you want to install it over joists.

Most professional use cleats when installing bamboo floors. Each has its own pros and cons but today we re going to look at the nail down method. First of all there are 3 common methods used to install hardwood and bamboo flooring. Bamboo nailing nightmares i recently went through the selection and installation of bamboo flooring and i thought i d share my experiences.

With all brands of strand bamboo there are two primary considerations to take into account as you prepare to nail down your new flooring. Use this method for solid and engineered if approved by your manufacturer t g bamboo above wood subfloors or concrete subfloors overlaid with a plywood underlayment. You have the choice of either secret nailing or secret screwing it to the joists. Start by securing the first row of bamboo flooring by either nailing or screwing into the groove of the planks.

I am just finishing installing 1000 sf of bamboo using a normal bostich miii flooring stapler.