Cut Nails For Pine Flooring

Tremont offers 18 historic patterns of cut nails for restoration renovation and authentication projects ranging from recreation of old furniture to restoration of historic buildings.

Cut nails for pine flooring.

Why do i want to use cut nails. Masonry cut nail has this look. Although you can secure inch plywood sheets to the joists in a subfloor with long nails you don t generally need extra long nails for the floor to stay in place. 4 the square section of a cut nail resists attempts at twisting the wood which is easy to do with a round wire nail.

Brooklyn tool and craft bags of cut nails. What size brad nail for trim. The nail must be long enough to go through the piece of pine and into the ceiling above. Flooring hardened great for laying tongue and groove hardwood and soft wood flooring.

Tremont steel cut nails. The length of the nails is more important than the gauge when using the nails to install tongue and groove wood. In this case we suggest you to use nails that are. Between 15 to 23 gauge 15 16 18 or 23 gauge.

Now we ll talk about the size of brad nail for trimming purposes. A traditional plank floor was face nailed with handmade nails. Not to be used for face nailing flooring because head is too small. To larger jobs needing them in bulk decorative wrought head cut nails used for wide pine flooring.

You can still get cut nails even galvanized steel cut nails from tremont the oldest remaining and most prolific cut nail maker that is still around. Hammer the cut nails flush with the pine flooring and countersink 1 8 in. Drill the pilot holes for the cut nails using a simple spacing guide. Because the thicker your nail the more wood fibers it will use to hold all the materials.

Nails are available hot dip galvanized for applications requiring rust resistant protection. Some cut nails have a wider section in the middle so that the wood at the top of the nail can swell back around the nail for even more strength. Nails approximately 2 inches in length pass through the inch plywood and still provide plenty of length to secure the plywood to the joists. If installing one half inch pine use 1 1 2 inch nails.