How To Layout Tongue And Groove Bamboo Flooring

The nail needs to go in at an angle so it isn t in the way of the next board image 2.

How to layout tongue and groove bamboo flooring.

Tongue and groove t g flooring is the traditional way of installing any type of bamboo or wooden floor. Do not glue the boards to the underlay. These fit into the slots cut by the 25 grooving. Bamboo flooring comes as solid tongue and groove planks and engineered boards with a veneer of bamboo glued to a plywood backing.

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. Start to lay your flooring by gluing the tongue and groove joints together with waterproof pva flooring adhesive. 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. Both types are 1 2 to 5 8 inch thick and 3 1 2 to 7 1 2 inches wide with variable lengths.

The i routed a groove in the cut edge because of the pattern on this floor i had to do that a lot. Stagger the planks in whatever pattern you want to achieve.