Floor Staples Or Nails

Recommends their members stay away from flooring staples.

Floor staples or nails.

Dewalt offers a selection of nails and staples from flooring fasteners to framing nails including crown staples finish staples brad nails siding nails and more. 1 000 can be purchased in smaller boxes while a larger one handles 5 000. Using a pneumatic tool staples are used to secure hardwood flooring to a plywood subfloor. It will depend on the length for solid 3 4 floors.

Most manufacturers allow the use of either flooring nails or staples but you should always refer to the manufacturer s instructions for proper nail staple size for a particular floor. Types of nails for laying hardwood floor. It is a 3 in 1 tool that takes 15 5 gauge flooring staples and also t and l nail cleats. The humble nail has a long history of craftsmanship behind every bag or box.

Staples are familiar to diy fans and building box stores often push this method of installation. Flooring nails have special qualities that make them suitable for the job. Staples are affordable easy to load and widely. Nails allow for a more natural expansion and contraction of the hardwood floorboards with fewer problems.

18 gauge glue collated narrow crown staples for woodwork and flooring 5000 per box. Standard flooring nails often termed cleats right bottom in the industry quantities are different. The 3 4 subfloor is just adequate for the 2 flooring nails to almost fully engage so it s ok. Studies of this have been done by a respected university and the maple flooring assoc.

Staples allow an experienced installer to put in about 500 square feet of flooring in an 8 hour day. Some professionals have noted staples actually fasten the floor too tight creating potential squeaking effects while others are more comfortable with the time tested flooring cleat nails that allow a more natural expansion and contraction wood floors need. This features separate and interchangeable base plates of inch 5 8 inch and inch solid tongue and groove flooring. Nails and staples differ in their holding properties.

A staple will give a stronger less forgiving hold because of its two pronged construction. We recommend nailing or stapling every 6 8 inches along the tongue of every board staying in approx 4 inches from each end of the floorboard. Be sure to nail every 6 8 into the hardwood. Shop our nails and staples.