Making Hardwood Flooring Splines

Parallel wall lines to the flooring direction is where we need to be square.

Making hardwood flooring splines.

Butâ now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miterâ joint assembled with a thin long grainâ spline. The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right. Natural wood grain finish. Our hardwood floor spline sliptongue is made from domestic hardwoods.

Hie spline would likely split along theâ grain and the joint would come apart. Length x 1 2 in. Flooring installers do this by tapping a makeshift tongue called a spline or slip tongue into the grooves of the boards in the first course. Packaged 10 per pack.

A change in direction refers to the positioning of the tongue and groove joints between each adjacent plank. 36 â sold individually or by the pack. Width x 1 4 in. A successful hardwood floor transition requires one of two different joints in order to change the direction of the planks.

Measure from one corner of the starting wall out the same width of your flooring then add the recommended expansion gap equal to the thickness of the flooring make a check mark on the measurement. 3 4 x 3 1 4 would be. While in the first room the grooves on each plank might point away from the door a transition allows that direction to change and the grooves to point the. Spline dimensions are 42 in.

Hardwood floor spline is used for a transition piece in tongue and groove flooring when changing the direction of the hardwood floor. Width x 42 in. Each individual spline is 1 4 in. Hardwood flooring splines are used to change direction for wood flooring that is nailed down.

1 snap a straight line to mark the first course of. Our sliptongue is produced using either red oak or poplar depending on availability.