Secret Flooring Screws

The secret fixing method involves driving a screw or nail through the tongue of the oak boards at a 45 degree angle.

Secret flooring screws.

Flooring screws can help to prevent squeaky boards and eliminate the need for glues and nails. This entry was posted in fitting guide and tagged secret nailing secret screwing floating floor loose laid hardwood floor installing hardwood fitting hardwood wood flooring glue floating wooden floors wood floor adhesive expansion gaps subfloor preparation on january 24 2018 by chris elliott. This is an excellent screw to use for secret nailing flooring. Using tongue tite screws.

Using the secret screwing method with other screws normally requires drilling pilot holes. Boards can be lifted without damage. Tri lock ts thread won t split timber won t loosen and requires no pilot hole. Hidden removable fixing for all tongue and groove flooring including hard and softwoods and fibreboards.

200 screws will fix up to 10m. They take a firm hold of the boards and their small heads ensure no damage is caused to the tongues unlike 3 5 or 4 0mm screws which drag the tongue down obstructing subsequent boards. If you love my content and would like. With the spax screws no pre drilling is required meaning it will take you half the time to lay each board.

In this video i show you how to screw new floor boards down so that the screws are hidden. F bohrfix zb shown secret fixing rw006 t g v d cladding. When using this method our screw of choice are the spax screws. Flooring screws for a variety of applications such as tongue and groove flooring including hardwoods softwoods and fibreboards.

Wood flooring blog secret screwing or secret nailing. Floor screws also remove the need for any pre drilling allowing you complete the job quickly without fuss. No more glues nails or squeaky boards. These screws have been designed specifically for the fitting of solid wood flooring.

Architect select western red cedar rw134 secret fixed using f bohrfix zb.