Cutting Long Straight Boards For Flooring

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Cutting long straight boards for flooring.

This is one of the tools every professional uses to cut laminate floor boards to length and is the key to how to cut a laminate floor. Thick wood and 8d finish nails for 1 1 2 in. Use 4d finish nails for 3 4 in. Wear goggles a mask and gloves.

Use a table or circular saw to make long straight cuts. Then mark the board and cut it to width photos 2 and 3. Place the laminate flooring board on a sturdy surface saw horse and lock it into position with several c clamps or with the help of a friend. When ripping the boards to fit the tongue side of each board will be the off cut.

To make an angled rip cut for the first or last row of flooring mark the cutting line on the backside of the plank using a straightedge or chalk line to ensure a straight line. This process can take up to 2 hours depending on how many boards you need to cut. Clamp the plank to your work surface so the cutting line is overhanging beyond the edge of the surface. Rather than sawing the laminate the cutter chops it using a tough blade and a long handle used to exert downward force.

In this diy how to cut wood flooring video we ll show you over a dozen difficult cuts and how to cut wood flooring around doors cutting wood floors and ho. Cut the wedge from a scrap of flooring with the groove left on. If the gap won t tighten up cut the board into shorter lengths. For angles use a utility knife or a.

Drive the wedge between the flooring board and a scrap board screwed to the subfloor. In order to get accurate cuts clamp the straight edge or a laminate flooring plank to your board making sure the blade of the jigsaw goes exactly over the cut line at both sides. After removing two sections of partition wall i needed to patch the hardwood i decided to run two courses of tongue and groove perpendicular to the exis. Keep your board in place using a stand or a clamp.

Make a wedge to drive slightly bowed boards together. Cut badly bowed boards into shorter lengths. For this method you must nail the board directly to the sawhorses with finish nails photo 1. Mark and measure where you want to cut the boards beforehand with chalk or pencil.