Probably the most common type of flooring nailer on the market today is the air assisted flooring nailer. This nailer is the variety of nailer you would see on most residential jobs. These nailers exploit compressed air commonly in a range from 70 PSI to around 120 PSI. These styles of nailers use either a trigger pull to fire the fastener or use the light tap from a dead blow to fire the stapler or engineered nail. These categories of guns are great because they can be worked with very hurriedly and thus cause an prep to go equally quick. There are a couple of bad points with this classification of nailer the first being that pneumatic nailer can be very expensive. This however can be circumvented on a small job by renting one for a fairly cheap price. The attribute about pneumatic nailers that I personally find a bit frustrating is the need to tote a big air compressor and always needing to tend with the air hose.
The air hose can get really aggravating to pull around corners and always needing to wrestle with that beast can get to you after awhile! This is one of the reasons that I like to use a high quality hand-operated non-pneumatic nailer now and again. The only really disadvantage to this type of hand-operated nailing system is that you have to really whack it harder than with the air assisted type of nailer. I must mention to you that this type of nailer takes some practice and you need to get familiar with your "whacks" so that the nailer driving is stable and consistent. I particularly like to use a manual nailer when I am doing smaller areas and need to move around a lot between rooms as opposed to the pneumatic nailer which I utilize when I do a lot of flooring in one central area.
We should take a look at some of some of the more ordinary ways used to install engineered flooring. The first that comes to mind is the free floating floor. The most basic method simply snaps into place or is fastened in place by a hammer and a few firm whacks with a block. This type is fairly simple and straight forward to construct but I should tell you the majority of flooring of this classification doesn't really affect me and I would say that it falls into the range of the good types of engineered flooring. The next most everyday variety of flooring is a free floating floor that is glued together. This glue is commonly applied and the material are held together under pressure for a period of 24 to 48 hours. This can be a bit of a hassle because you need to you huge strap clamps and if you're not meticulous the pressure can cause the pieces to fly up and off the floor. This can be solved by applying downward force in the way of weights that put into use downward force yet still light enough as to no impinge on the lateral pressure needed on the glue joints. In future blogs we will cover these systems in greater detail and also look at some other ordinary flooring methods in use these days.
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