Mohawk Hardwood Flooring Installation
- 1). Install your floor paper underlayment in slightly overlapping courses over the whole sub-floor. Staple down the paper with a staple gun.
- 2). Set the first row of Mohawk hardwood floorboards next to the longest wall, with the grooved sides of the boards facing the wall and sitting 1/2 inch out from it (to allow the wood to expand). Connect the floorboards at the ends.
- 3). Secure the boards by nailing through the tops of them with a nail gun, every foot or so along both edges of the boards. Use a miter saw to cut the final board to fit against the side wall.
- 4). Install three or four courses of Mohawk flooring in the same manner, top-nailing it, while connecting the boards by their long sides with the tongue-and-groove milling.
- 5). Set your pneumatic flooring stapler on top of the installed floorboards once there's enough room there for the stapler. Drop the front nozzle of the stapler over the edge of the new row of boards and shoot in the flooring staples through the sides and downward. Put a staple every 10 to 12 inches.
- 6). Repeat for each board and each row. Cross the floor row by row, shooting in the long flooring staples and cutting the ends as needed.
- 7). Top-nail the last few courses as you did the first few, using the nail gun, when the stapler won't fit any longer because of the opposite wall. Cut the boards of the final course along their lengths with a table saw so there's a 1/2-inch gap by the wall. Floor trim will hide the gap.
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