FCI Tool Guide: Wood Flooring Tools

Tag : hand tools
Electric jamb saws with carbide blades make precise repetitiveclean cuts for cutting off door jambs and where under cuts arenecessary. Flooring jacks were developed to help to tighten the last boardruns. Pry bars and or sharpened pieces of flooring were previouslyused to tighten these runs. They required the installer have ahelper or be a gymnast to hold the pry bar, nailing machine, andhammer all at once. The new vibrating saws have helped speed precision cutting,previously relegated to a chisel. These come in handy whenfinishing a cross cut across a cased opening since the circular sawcannot cut flush to the jamb or wall. They are also used to cutends of a board repair. Grooving bits for routers have been developed specifically for theflooring industry to groove blunt cut ends and edges. These groovesare then fitted with a slip tongue to give a continuous tongue andgroove engagement at direction changes, reversals, and angled cuts.This not only eliminates the need for face nailing but provides theimportant stability from T & G engagement. Epoxy adhesive cartridges are used to glue board repairs quickly.They have eliminated the need for noticeable face nail holes. Thequick set epoxy allows sanding and finishing begin within 10minutes of the repair. Chop saws are now used extensively to cut square ends and makeprecise angle cuts. Finally, where would we be without cordless tools--drills, saws,and lights?