> I'll be installing wood strip flooring on a concrete slab
> on the next week or so. can anyone recommend a good book
> or better, a video on installing this stuff? it'll be the
> glue-down stuff. I've installed tile before, but that was
> a 10 x 5 room, and if I messed it up I could afford to rip
> it up and start fresh. I won't have that option with the
> wood, so I'd like to get it right the first time.
Scott,
What I did when I layed my Hardwood floor, was to cut and
fit
the entire room, starting from the entry way going towards
the
back. You don't want the seams on 2 successive rows to lign
up. So when you cut a board to find agains a wall, that the
remaining piece and start the next coarse.
Once ever thing was in, I started at the front again,
pulled up each board, numbered it (on the botton), any drew
a map of all the borads. This leaves the boards for the
back
wall the last to be picked up. Now I started laying the
glue
and replacing the boards working towards the front.
A table saw of good cutoff saw will be a big help. You
don't
want to cut all the boards by hand.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
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