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I plan to lay the French Pine flooring (pre finished), bought from B&Q in my new loft room. The boards are 21mm thick x 143mm wide and 2m long. The loft floor is 18mm waterproof chipboard on joists.
The instructions say to nail the boards (secret nailing).
A few questions.
1 If Im nailing the boards, do I still need to leave an expansion gap?
2 I plan to use a nail gun that fires 50mm / 18gauge brad nails to fix the boards (at 45 deg through the tounges), do you think that will be suitable.
3 how many nails per board, and should they be to the joists or will it be ok to fire them just into the chipboard.
4 the boards are already in the loft in packets to aclimatise, should I take them out of the plastic wrap, a few days before I use them.
Thanks for your time, and if theres any other useful info, I would appreciate it.
The instructions say to nail the boards (secret nailing).
A few questions.
1 If Im nailing the boards, do I still need to leave an expansion gap?
2 I plan to use a nail gun that fires 50mm / 18gauge brad nails to fix the boards (at 45 deg through the tounges), do you think that will be suitable.
3 how many nails per board, and should they be to the joists or will it be ok to fire them just into the chipboard.
4 the boards are already in the loft in packets to aclimatise, should I take them out of the plastic wrap, a few days before I use them.
Thanks for your time, and if theres any other useful info, I would appreciate it.