Thread: Pine T&G Flooring

Welcome to the forum,.

I suggest that you pre-drill, all the holes for the nails, especially on the board ends. And place joins on joists.

This will prevent splitting, drill should be just slightly smaller than the nail diameter, but not equal or larger.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff
I wasn't sure whether I should plan my joins and arrange double joists where the planned joins would be. This would add a bit more subfloor timber and require some planning, I prefer the flexibility of being able to use any joist for the join. I intended to use a nail gun but that's OK I can use a hammer for the nails at the ends.

Regards
Puddles_7

An old trick when dry fixing floor board is to squirt a beed of talc powder along the joists before laying the section of boards. This helps eliminate squeeking, which is often a problem with gun nailed softwood joists. Obviously this is not for glued floors.

Puddles

You can also attach a short piece of timber the same size as the joist to the side of the joist effectively creating twice the width to nail joins onto.

Regards Mike

Rustynail
Thanks for the talc tip, I had intended to use liquid nails on each joist to deal with the squeeky floorboard issue.
Mickyg
Now that's a good idea, I will have some joist offcuts so I will do just that.

Cheers
Puddles

I can hear the termites coming now... fresh tea fresh tea yum they are saying

Advise against using Liquid Nails..........Use Sika T-55 or Ultraset.

Ref Rod1949, I do agree with him, PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE HOUSE TREATED ASAP!!!.

It recently cost me $2,000.00, to have the house done, after discovering the little B%@*&%$S in the architrave around the back door.( $35.00 for timber to replace the eaten bits)

Jeff