What Types Of Nails Are Used?
In the golden days steel hardened cut nails were used. Now depending on what tool you may be using there are cleat nails, manufactured with a barbed like appearance on the bottom that helps hold the flooring into the subfloor. Staples on the other hand obtain their holding capacity by resin on the bottom of all staples. Once the staple is engaged by a pneumatic tool, friction caused by the force going through hardwood and subfloor heats up the resin and acts as an adhesive.
In the golden days steel hardened cut nails were used. Now depending on what tool you may be using there are cleat nails, manufactured with a barbed like appearance on the bottom that helps hold the flooring into the subfloor. Staples on the other hand obtain their holding capacity by resin on the bottom of all staples. Once the staple is engaged by a pneumatic tool, friction caused by the force going through hardwood and subfloor heats up the resin and acts as an adhesive. The Mallet? The mallet shown has two distinct parts besides the handle. The white portion is hard rubber used to engage the plunger and persuade adjacent boards into place before actually hitting the plunger. Have a board that is bowed a little? That’s what the rubber part is designed for. Opposite of the white rubber part is a chunk of metal working as a counter balance providing weight and more force while moving planks or strip into place, and should never be used on the plunger. In some cases it may be advantage
