How To Layout Tongue And Groove Bamboo Flooring
Each plank of bamboo flooring has one long side and one short side with a tongue a protruding edge and one long side and one short side with a groove a rebated edge.
How to layout tongue and groove bamboo flooring. Stagger the planks in whatever pattern you want to achieve. Just fyi i found a tip that you can take paint sticks for 5 gal paint cans and cut them into strips and use them for splines on your strip flooring. Bamboo flooring comes as solid tongue and groove planks and engineered boards with a veneer of bamboo glued to a plywood backing. Lay the first floor board in and secure it with an 18 gauge pin nailer driving the nail right into the shoulder of the tongue image 1.
These fit into the slots cut by the 25 grooving. Do not glue the boards to the underlay. Bamboo smells a little bit like pot when cut. The nail needs to go in at an angle so it isn t in the way of the next board image 2.
For full installation details please read the instructions which are included in the packs of the bamboo flooring. Tongue and groove t g flooring is the traditional way of installing any type of bamboo or wooden floor.