Flooring Staples Not Going In Far Enough

I have little experience with pneumatic cleat guns but i know they have a piston big enough to sink the dog scat out of a lil ole cleat.

Flooring staples not going in far enough. I know i wont do 1 1 2. It s practically new but i can seem to get the staples to sink far enough. Nwfa specifies 2 but i am worried about the penetration out the back of the osb yet i am worried that 1 3 4 wont be enough. Going for the staples.

The air driven pneumatic nailer will produce enough force to ensure the fastening is tightly secure. When used improperly staples or cleats can damage wood flooring. I stay around 80 pounds. At 105 pounds you should be shooting cleats into the basement.

Use 18 ga 1 1 2 long staples when installing thinner 1 2 thick solid wood floors per manufacturer s recommendation. If the spring s reaction is slow or not forceful enough a replacement is needed. Misshapen staples can be the product of the hammer not hitting the individual staple in the correct stop. The spring should rapidly contact the bar of staples.

I tried regular bruce hardwood at my house to get a feel for the gun. When the scraper blade which is around 1 8th inch thick think dull sidewalk ice scraper here contacts a staple it. The heavy headed or weighted scraper is run across the floor in a regular scraping fashion. Then you may use an edger nails gun or nail down manually.

To test your spring open the stapler slide it back and let go. Hardwood cleats don t go in the plank far enough i have been working on hardwood floor project and the bostitch manual floor nailer couldn t drive the nail in all the way. It is not pushed down on as this will cause gouging. I had to set tons of staples to get the boards close and.

Don t know how far down the tongue is so a little less than 2 12 inches at nailing point. Some models may require the use of an adapter to adjust for proper thickness. Attempting to nail down a wooden floor by hand is not recommended for a number of reasons including consistency and accuracy. Which brings me to my original struggle not sure if 2 inch or 1 3 4 inch is better.

One of the floor guys i use from time to time gave me a bostich miii. I also use the bostich m 111. Use 15 ga 1 3 4 long staples when installing 3 4 solid wood flooring when 3 4 plywood is applied directly over a concrete slab so that the staple does not go through the 3 4 plywood hitting the concrete. If you are using long enough nails or staples try fastening them to the places where the joists are going through.

Using a stapler with 1 1 2 to 2 staples is one method to attach wood flooring to your subfloor. Take it back and get a new one. I went from 2 to 1 1 2 staples and it didn t make a difference.