How to Install Bruce Engineered Flooring
- 1). Roll out your rosin paper underlayment in courses over the floor, stapling them down and covering the whole surface.
- 2). Set your first piece of Bruce engineered flooring alongside your starting wall, with the grooved side facing the wall, and with a 1/2-inch space between the board and the wall. Secure the board by shooting nails through its surface with a floor nailer, straight down, along both edges of the board, every foot or so, using a tape measure.
- 3). Set the next boards of the ends of the first, connecting them by their tongue-and-groove milling and keeping the boards 1/2 inch from the wall. Nail them all down in the same fashion. Cut the final board on a miter saw to fit at the end.
- 4). Lay your subsequent courses of flooring by connecting the long edges together at the tongue-and-groove, building out course by course. Nail the subsequent courses through the sides rather than the tops, shooting the nails down at an angle just above the tongue, about every foot.
- 5). Build across the entire floor, course by course, cutting the end pieces needed. Arrange the boards so the ends don't line up between courses.
- 6). Cut the boards of the final course length-wise, on a table saw, so they will fit against the ending wall with a 1/2-inch space there. Cover the spaces when you install the floor trim.
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