Making Hardwood Flooring Splines

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Making hardwood flooring splines.

Our sliptongue is produced using either red oak or poplar depending on availability. Thickness x 1 2 in. Hardwood floor spline is used for a transition piece in tongue and groove flooring when changing the direction of the hardwood floor. Parallel wall lines to the flooring direction is where we need to be square.

Packaged 10 per pack. 36 â sold individually or by the pack. The easiest way to make a hardwood spline is to simply rip a thin strip from a board. 3 4 x 3 1 4 would be.

Length x 1 2 in. 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. Hardwood flooring splines are used to change direction for wood flooring that is nailed down. 3 1 4 3 4 4.

A change in direction refers to the positioning of the tongue and groove joints between each adjacent plank. Natural wood grain finish. Spline dimensions are 42 in. Each individual spline is 1 4 in.

1 snap a straight line to mark the first course of. 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. Width x 42 in. A successful hardwood floor transition requires one of two different joints in order to change the direction of the planks.

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. Our hardwood floor spline sliptongue is made from domestic hardwoods.