When talking about wood-flooring, you will find that it uses a tongue-and-groove system to lay the flooring. The system will mill the wood-flooring into the sides of the boards. In order give a tight fit, a tongue will be set to fit the groove. In this matter, the use of pneumatic floor stapler is very important. This is a type of tool that is designed for the tongue-and-groove flooring installation. You will find that the mallet is used to trigger the shooting of the staple. This will drive the boards tightly get together when the staple is shot. When you are about to use this tool, you can follow the following steps.
1. You should lay the first board. In this matter, you have to make sure that the grooved side faces the wall. Also you have to make sure that you make 3/8-inch expansion gap from it. You will find that this expansion gap will allow the board to make movement when the climate changes. But next, you will find that this will be covered up by the floor trim. When you are sure about those things, you can nail down the first board with your nail gun by shooting pairs of nails to the face of the board.
2. You should lay the next boards. For this, you should connect the ends of the boards. You should cut the final pieces on your miter saw at the walls as you need. Then, you should continue the process for the next few courses. In this step, you should connect them by their tongue-and-groove sides. You should also do the top-nailing as the previous step. You have to do this until you have enough courses so that you can sit the pneumatic floor stapler. For this, you might need four or five courses.
3. The next thing that you should do is that you should hook the stapler that you will use up to the air tank. Alongside the previous boards that you have installed, you should set the board of the next course. Make sure that it is in its place correctly. On the top installed courses, you should sit the stapler. Make sure that its nose hook down over the new board that you will install.
4. Gently, knock the stapler against that floorboard. For this, you can use the mallet that you have. After that, you should swing it fully so that it hits the rubber firing pad of the stapler.
5. Then, you should do that in every foot on the board. Make sure that you staple the board perfectly. When you have finished with this process, you can use your miter saw for cutting the end of pieces of the board when it is needed.
6. Finally, you should it across the floor with the pneumatic stapler until you are close to the opposing wall or you find that there is no longer enough room to fully swing the mallet. Lay the last few courses with your nail gun, as you did the first few courses.
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