Below is a rough room layout. There is newly installed engineered wood flooring made by DuChateau. It's European white oak 5/8" thick. The structure is 3 ply with oak on the face and back, with a finger joint center. The floor is prefinished, with e very weathered look......... knot hole checks and cracks and a wire brushed finish. Spendy too..... $14 per sq ft.
It's like this.
http://duchateaufloors.com/collections/heritage-timber-edition/
http://duchateaufloors.com/product/coal/
http://duchateaufloors.com/product/coal/
http://duchateaufloors.com/technica...red-hardwood-floor-installation-instructions/
The kitchen and hallway are done in this hardwood. It continues into other rooms that I didn't include.
I have been asked to redo the hallway. It didn't fit the door jambs very well, there were some gaps in a couple of boards and where the fella ended the wood at the hall doorways it was fit pretty crappy. To make the doorway transition look even worse, he glued onto the new floor, what looked to be 2 1/2" baseboard material.
I guess that was supposed to be a trim edge to which the existing carpet was to be refitted against. The carpet is now 1/4" short of the wood flooring, and it's woven wool which won't stretch at all............... so that guy probably owes the customer two bedrooms of carpet.
Anyhow, the wood floor is nailed down. I mocked up a sample board for the customer to show her how it will look with a header board in the carpeted doorways instead of that ugly trim piece.
If I do the header board, how do I properly fasten it?
My original plan is to groove the header boards and the ends of the field boards........ then make a spline for them.
Do I then glue the spline into the header board, making it into a tongue? ........and then later, tap it in place dry like all the rest of the floor?
Or do I glue the spline into both the field boards and the header pieces, locking the hallway ends to each other?
Being a small area, I'm thinking much of this small area will need to be hand nailed. What size and type of nail? Bright or galvanized?
It's like this.
http://duchateaufloors.com/collections/heritage-timber-edition/
http://duchateaufloors.com/product/coal/
http://duchateaufloors.com/product/coal/
http://duchateaufloors.com/technica...red-hardwood-floor-installation-instructions/
The kitchen and hallway are done in this hardwood. It continues into other rooms that I didn't include.
I have been asked to redo the hallway. It didn't fit the door jambs very well, there were some gaps in a couple of boards and where the fella ended the wood at the hall doorways it was fit pretty crappy. To make the doorway transition look even worse, he glued onto the new floor, what looked to be 2 1/2" baseboard material.
I guess that was supposed to be a trim edge to which the existing carpet was to be refitted against. The carpet is now 1/4" short of the wood flooring, and it's woven wool which won't stretch at all............... so that guy probably owes the customer two bedrooms of carpet.Anyhow, the wood floor is nailed down. I mocked up a sample board for the customer to show her how it will look with a header board in the carpeted doorways instead of that ugly trim piece.
If I do the header board, how do I properly fasten it?
My original plan is to groove the header boards and the ends of the field boards........ then make a spline for them.
Do I then glue the spline into the header board, making it into a tongue? ........and then later, tap it in place dry like all the rest of the floor?
Or do I glue the spline into both the field boards and the header pieces, locking the hallway ends to each other?
Being a small area, I'm thinking much of this small area will need to be hand nailed. What size and type of nail? Bright or galvanized?
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