h******2
发帖数: 102 | 1 did my hardwood floor. Never did this kind of DIY before. Turned out to be
ok but no perfect. The following is what I did. Hope it will be useful to
some of you.
1. Make sure you have the right subfloor for hardwood floor
2. Buy hardwood floor and open boxes in the room to acclimate hardwood
boards for 1 or 2 weeks (avoid winter to do installation)
3. Remove baseboards
4. Remove carpets
5. If drywall does not directly touch the subfloor, check if the gap
is big enough to insert your hardwood board. If not big enough, use a piece
of hardwood board as a guild and undercut the drywall. The purpose of this
is that you can use a single baseboard later to cover floor expansion gap
and you will not need to install quarter round if you do not like it,
because there is already a gap behind the drywall (2/1”) so you do not need
to leave a big expansion gap between the drywall and your hardwood boards).
6. Check subfloor. Add screws where applicable to fix squeaking
7. Check if the subfloor is level. if level you are in luck. Otherwise
you have to do sth. A non-level subfloor is the biggest headache in
installing hardwood floor.
8. Thoroughly vac clean the subfloor
9. Determine which direction your hardwood boards will go. Normally they
should perpendicular to joists. You can know by nailing patterns on
subfloor what direction your joists go.
10. Now take your time to decide where you should start your first row of
boards. If you are doing a few adjoining rooms, you must be careful about
many factors: (1) will all hardwood boards be installed in the same
direction; (2) do you need transition from room to room? Etc. etc.etc.
11. You normally start your first row near the longest wall. Donot start
in the middle of room unless you know and want to do direction reverse (
remember you can only nail through tongues).
12. Layer #15 black felt paper on the subfloor. You donot have to cover
the whole floor all at once. Just cover enough for the first few rows of
boards. You can overlap felt paper so no need to staple.
13. take the measurements of the room and mark accurately a center line.
Draw parallel lines to this center line, from the starting wall. These lines
should be perpendicular to the floor joists.
14. Install the first row by face nailing (also you can shoot a few nails
at 45 o through tongues by using a finish nailing gun).
15. Try your air nailer on the 2nd row. If you donot have enough room,
you will have to install the 2nd row just as you do with the first row.
(to be continued) |
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e********t
发帖数: 9607 | 4 写的很详细，没自己做过的不会注意到这么多细节。
只可惜是英文的。
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【在 h******2 的大作中提到】
: did my hardwood floor. Never did this kind of DIY before. Turned out to be
: ok but no perfect. The following is what I did. Hope it will be useful to
: some of you.
: 1. Make sure you have the right subfloor for hardwood floor
: 2. Buy hardwood floor and open boxes in the room to acclimate hardwood
: boards for 1 or 2 weeks (avoid winter to do installation)
: 3. Remove baseboards
: 4. Remove carpets
: 5. If drywall does not directly touch the subfloor, check if the gap
: is big enough to insert your hardwood board. If not big enough, use a piece
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s****i
发帖数: 519 | 5 赞具体和细节。。
piece
【在 h******2 的大作中提到】
: did my hardwood floor. Never did this kind of DIY before. Turned out to be
: ok but no perfect. The following is what I did. Hope it will be useful to
: some of you.
: 1. Make sure you have the right subfloor for hardwood floor
: 2. Buy hardwood floor and open boxes in the room to acclimate hardwood
: boards for 1 or 2 weeks (avoid winter to do installation)
: 3. Remove baseboards
: 4. Remove carpets
: 5. If drywall does not directly touch the subfloor, check if the gap
: is big enough to insert your hardwood board. If not big enough, use a piece
|
s**********n
发帖数: 291 | 6 RE
piece
【在 h******2 的大作中提到】
: did my hardwood floor. Never did this kind of DIY before. Turned out to be
: ok but no perfect. The following is what I did. Hope it will be useful to
: some of you.
: 1. Make sure you have the right subfloor for hardwood floor
: 2. Buy hardwood floor and open boxes in the room to acclimate hardwood
: boards for 1 or 2 weeks (avoid winter to do installation)
: 3. Remove baseboards
: 4. Remove carpets
: 5. If drywall does not directly touch the subfloor, check if the gap
: is big enough to insert your hardwood board. If not big enough, use a piece
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b***p
发帖数: 1398 | |
h******2
发帖数: 102 | 8 Cost: did not calculate the cost but definitely less than hiring the
contractors. In addition you will keep all the tools for other home
improvements.
Time: I was slow on my first room because I was a rookie and the room
requires lots of attention due to unlevel subfloor. But I was very fast for
my last room which was level and I was experienced by then.
It was fun to do. |
t**m
发帖数: 263 | 9 还以为你自己用木头做的地板呢
呵呵
piece
【在 h******2 的大作中提到】
: did my hardwood floor. Never did this kind of DIY before. Turned out to be
: ok but no perfect. The following is what I did. Hope it will be useful to
: some of you.
: 1. Make sure you have the right subfloor for hardwood floor
: 2. Buy hardwood floor and open boxes in the room to acclimate hardwood
: boards for 1 or 2 weeks (avoid winter to do installation)
: 3. Remove baseboards
: 4. Remove carpets
: 5. If drywall does not directly touch the subfloor, check if the gap
: is big enough to insert your hardwood board. If not big enough, use a piece
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f********r
发帖数: 904 | 10 有点纸上谈兵，我的做法比你的要简单，
1，清理表层不该有的东西，
2，尽量知道原有地板哪里有虚位的地方（吱咯声音）要加钉，
3，铺专用牛皮纸，如果表面不超过1/8的差异，对3/4的hardwood可以不去计较
4，打对角线，确定房间是否方形
5，每层接口要跟上一层的接口区间合理 |
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h******2
发帖数: 102 | 11 I was trying to show in details rookies like myself who want to DIY hardwood
floor. When I decided to do it myself, I was scared becuase I did not want
to make silly mistakes which can not be corrected later. If you think it is
no help to you, I am sorry. Just ingore it.
If you know how to do sth, it seems to be really easy to you. However for a
rookie, a seemingly apparent thing could be a hassel. |
H******7
发帖数: 34403 | 12 问：一定要先除baseboard trim吗？我可是刚刷上漆。那玩意儿拆下来再装上可行吗？
是不是会坏掉
一批？
hardwood
want
is
for a
【在 h******2 的大作中提到】
: I was trying to show in details rookies like myself who want to DIY hardwood
: floor. When I decided to do it myself, I was scared becuase I did not want
: to make silly mistakes which can not be corrected later. If you think it is
: no help to you, I am sorry. Just ingore it.
: If you know how to do sth, it seems to be really easy to you. However for a
: rookie, a seemingly apparent thing could be a hassel.
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H******7
发帖数: 34403 | 13 oak, cherry, walnut, maple各有啥优劣？ |
f********r
发帖数: 904 | 14 太多细节不是不好,对初入门者,必须知道哪些是重点,比如木纹,木节的出现要放在哪更
合理,摆设方向应如何引起视觉合理,有些木并非绝对笔直的,在安装时,还要加力顺从 |
h******2
发帖数: 102 | 15 If you donot remove current baseboards, you will have to use quarter round
to cover the expanison gaps which many people do not like.
If you remove them you can always put them back after floor is done on one
condition that you have not damaged them during removal. |
H******7
发帖数: 34403 | 16 拆的话是不是就是撬下来呢还是有别的特殊工具。
round
one
【在 h******2 的大作中提到】
: If you donot remove current baseboards, you will have to use quarter round
: to cover the expanison gaps which many people do not like.
: If you remove them you can always put them back after floor is done on one
: condition that you have not damaged them during removal.
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h******2
发帖数: 102 | 17 A "good" rookie will gather info from different sources when doing homework.
They will get other info like you mentioned from other souces. |
h******2
发帖数: 102 | 18 a pry bar and thick plywood should be good enough. just pry where nails are. |
