Wood
Floor Installation
Wood floor will look beautiful and will last for years if it is installed over a properly
prepared surface. In New York City & New Jersey there are so many unaware tenants living on subfloors.
Subfloor
is a base for laying the main floor: strip/plank flooring or parquet squares. They look like wide board wood floors, mostly
pine or redwood. If the wood is still in good condition it should be left that way. If it is in bad condition consider laying
a new floor on the top of this one.
Three ways to install the hardwood floor:
- Nailing
down solid (whole wood) or engineered (layer of solid wood on plywood) wood strips to the plywood or plank wood subfloor.
- Gluing down engineered wood strips or parquet squares directly to concrete subfloor
- Floating
installation: gluing together tongue and groove of each plank of laminate or engineered wood floor or locking pieces together
without glue if planks equipped with locking system.
Most cost effective is floating installation:
- Clean and almost dustless hardwood floor installation.
- Floor pieces are already prefinished,
so the wood does not require sanding and finishing.
- Installation can be done room by room, it
allows to move furniture around if place is already occupied.
- Our price starts from $7.00 per
sq ft - including material and labor
Nailing down solid or engineered hardwood floor:
- Lay
down building paper on existing subfloor.
- Draw the straight line (starter line) using chalk
line from the window to the end of the room.
- Select a long straight strip and lay it against
the starter line at the left side of the room with the 1/2 inch from the adjacent sidewall.
- 4
inch from starting line loosely arrange the next seven or eight courses, mixing long and short lengths (ranking the floor).
- Start nailing each strip 2 inches from its left end.
- Keep the boards tight to ensure
that they stay straight.
- Install any trim before sanding and finishing the floor.