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Making hardwood flooring splines.
Thickness x 1 2 in.
Hardwood flooring splines are used to change direction for wood flooring that is nailed down.
Our sliptongue is produced using either red oak or poplar depending on availability.
The easiest way to make a hardwood spline is to simply rip a thin strip from a board.
Our hardwood floor spline sliptongue is made from domestic hardwoods.
Width x 1 4 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.
Parallel wall lines to the flooring direction is where we need to be square.
Butâ now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miterâ joint assembled with a thin long grainâ spline.
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.
3 4 x 3 1 4 would be.
Packaged 10 per pack.
Length x 1 2 in.
Spline dimensions are 42 in.
Natural wood grain finish.
1 snap a straight line to mark the first course of.
Width x 42 in.
Each individual spline is 1 4 in.
A change in direction refers to the positioning of the tongue and groove joints between each adjacent plank.
The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right.
Hardwood floor spline is used for a transition piece in tongue and groove flooring when changing the direction of the hardwood floor.