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The way to go

 

what in the world!

 

I asked you if you were nailing the groove side , you said yes correct ?

You normally nail the tongue side .

To change direction of nail down t&g flooring , ie change the side that the tongue is on you add a spline to the groove side which is basically just a ripped down piece of wood the same size as the tongue plus the depth of the groove . You glue that into your transition board basically giving you a board with a tongue on both sides .

This is used for areas just like the picture you showed where your boards don't align around that wall .

If I was laying that flooring I would have chalked a line through the hallway and rooms that the flooring was going to go through and screw down a plywood stop on the line . I would then install the flooring from the plywood stop and away in one direction until I was done , then come back , remove the plywood stop , install my spline , nail through the spline and then carry on flooring in the other direction

In both directions I would be nailing through the tongue side of the boards

 

Holy fuck, dude. WTF?

 

I was ripping down our rural road at about 50 mph and BANG !

bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang


I thought my passenger tire had detonated but there was no steering pull , I stopped right away but where I was there is basically no shoulder so I had my hazards on and my truck about 2' into the lane .

I could smell burnt rubber when I got out of the truck and went around to the passenger side , looked underneath and found that mess .

I certainly didn't see that on the road and I had just gone to look at a long time client's house where they want a few garden beds built and I parked near their tractor storage / garden maintenance area and I wonder if I parked on top of the wire when I came in and it got hung up on the front of my truck and then came loose a couple miles later after I left

Luckily I had my tool bag in the truck so I had some snips and pliers . Took about 45 minutes to cut off

No clue , seriously if it was on the road I never saw it

 

Yeah, no kidding. Nasty!

 

I just sent my last payment to Toyota Financial Services.

 

Well that's stupid. This clown started by nailing the grooves. I guess I went with it not knowing any better. How fucked am I?

 

Cool sky

 

Fixed. Even though oz says the floor is shit now.

 

I didn't say it was shit , I was trying to tell you how its supposed to be done , nailing the groove side will leave the boards more prone to the cleats or staples pulling through over time but it also might be fine , you're just doing it backwards

 

Leave what's done, done. Do what OZ said from that point on.

 

Read back at @OZ-T 's suggestions.

 

LOL. He said to glue in a spline into the groove and go from there. That's the gist of it...

 

Pretty colors!