Lay the first floor board in and secure it with an 18 gauge pin nailer driving the nail right into the shoulder of the tongue image 1.
How to layout tongue and groove bamboo flooring.
The nail needs to go in at an angle so it isn t in the way of the next board image 2.
Tongue and groove t g flooring is the traditional way of installing any type of bamboo or wooden floor.
Bamboo flooring comes as solid tongue and groove planks and engineered boards with a veneer of bamboo glued to a plywood backing.
For full installation details please read the instructions which are included in the packs of the bamboo flooring.
Start to lay your flooring by gluing the tongue and groove joints together with waterproof pva flooring adhesive.
Each plank of bamboo flooring has one long side and one short side with a tongue a protruding edge and one long side and one short side with a groove a rebated edge.
Do not glue the boards to the underlay.
The i routed a groove in the cut edge because of the pattern on this floor i had to do that a lot.
Both types are 1 2 to 5 8 inch thick and 3 1 2 to 7 1 2 inches wide with variable lengths.
These fit into the slots cut by the 25 grooving.