How Do You Install Engineered Wood Flooring With Staples?
Today’s engineered tongue-and-groove flooring is stronger, tighter and easier to lay than older floor systems, primarily because of the pneumatic floor stapler. This tool is designed for the precisely milled connectors on the edges of the floorboards. It’s triggered by hitting it with a mallet, forcing the boards together at exactly the moment a burst of pressurized air drives a long flooring staple though the side of the board and downward. You can’t use it at the start or end of the project, but it makes the middle a snap. Remove your floor trim with your hammer and pry bar, taking care not to break it. Remove the nails. Set the trim aside. Lay down your flooring felt in rows, cutting it at the end as needed with your razor knife and stapling it down with a staple gun. Set your first engineered floorboard along the longest wall in the room, with the grooved side facing the wall. Set the board about 1/4 inch from the wall (to allow for expansion). Use your nail gun to set it in place,
