Remove Nails From Tongue And Groove Flooring

If installing one half inch pine use 1 1 2 inch nails.

Remove nails from tongue and groove flooring. Now that the floor is clear and no moulding is present locate the wall that has the tongue side of the laminate flooring. If you want to remove the boards safely it. The planks are easier to remove if you begin from the tongue side rather than the side with the groove. Tongue and groove is a technique used to secure lumber on floors outside walls and paneling.

The nail must be long enough to go through the piece of pine and into the ceiling above. Each board has a tongue side and a groove side. Boards are nailed or fastened through the tongue to conceal the nails. Flooring nailers replaced the hammer and nail set method but they shoot nails into the same spot the top of the tongue.

The length of the nails is more important than the gauge when using the nails to install tongue and groove wood. Extracting nails from floorboards is hellishly difficult if you don t have the right tools. Problems with nailing the groove the wood on the tongue is much thicker than the wood on the inside of the groove and less likely to split when you drive a nail. It employs a tongue or protrusion on one edge of a board that fits into a groove or slot on an adjoining board.

A crowbar will damage the boards badly ripping up the tongues an. Place the tip of the curved end of the pry bar in the space between the first row of planks and the wall. Pulling up tongue and groove flooring can be tedious and time consuming more so when the boards are glued but it s not a test of carpentry skills.