How to Start An Engineered Hard Wood Floor Install 2019 , Locating A Good Starting Point

This Video shows how to Start an engineered Hardwood floor install, specifically when there is not an obvious starting point. How to find a good starting point, and also how to keep the floor straight and square when going into a new room. the piggy back technique explained. Starting your floor with braces in the middle of the room verses starting against a wall. This video shows before and after pictures of flooring install.
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[@billmatthews7373]

A great no bs video on how to line up a floor to start an engineered product. No long pointless explanations. Great job.

[@Blacktopkatchup]

Great video! You made it easy to understand

[@janetstone236]

DUDE YOU ARE THE BEST! Excellent - thank you for the 'brace idea with screws' - wonderful. and the straight line from the wall to align front to back. [Camera video tip - when you 'pan around' to show the finished room, move more slowly and gradually to make it a stable viewing scene vs quicker and jumpy-I was a professional wedding videographer.]

[@haroldthebear]

Excellent advice for setting up the starter row. Thanks !

[@catherinebuck1202]

Fantastic tips. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!

[@bellaqueen913]

EXCELLENT JOB!! I need to find you! I'm about to attempt to put down my flooring. 🙂

[@jjrg738]

Great job nice tips

[@jonabdo4796]

Great tips. Thanks

[@kejaymy2001]

I’ve watched a bunch of YTers videos on flooring and I really like some of your ideas the best. Thanks for the tips!

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[@Discovery123.]

BOOM BOOM ! Done !

[@90zaafira81]

Hi! I love the color of this flooring. Do you know what the name of the color or product is and where you got it?

[@juanojeda2982]

So there isn’t a way to start to avoid small pieces at edges of walls . Normally with a room it’s do able but I’m just wound wrong if it die able with a full lay like this one

[@christinak.9526]

Very good video! Starting our first DIY flooring project. We purchased an Engineered wood flooring in varying widths. I have watched many videos, one will show glueing the tongue and groove on your starter two rows and you show nailing the starter row. Two newbie questions.... If you nail the flooring, how does it then expand and contract? I don't want to add a shoe molding, just the existing baseboard. Can I cut the bottom of the baseboards and slide the flooring underneath for the expansion or remove the baseboards and reinstall on top of the flooring? Thank you!

[@pauloruiz8989]

Been an installer for over 15 years. Would definitely recommend you remove your existing base board to make it easier. Would be a night mare to pull it in on your opposite end of your starting point especially for a diy. If it’s nail just make sure you don’t nail the ending point so it can expand and contract to the opposite end

[@Gaba-oo4qb]

Remove baseboard that runs along length of planks before nailing first row of planks in. Same thing with last row of planks. Make sure that you rip cut your last row of planks to a width such that when you nail back your baseboards, it will hide the gap. But make sure you have a large enough gap between the drywall such that you can get in with a crook and tap the last row of planks in to lock with adjacent second to last row. Last row should either be glued down, floated by tongue and groove glue, OR face nailed. I prefer to just use glue down and use tongue and groove glue.

[@villafam8465]

Why did you remove the tile by the fireplace. I have marble there z should it be removed also?

[@ruemagoo]

Did you glue the floors down?

[@donhuffer5167]

Quarter round, uck!

[@ethanevangonzalez5206]

Should had taken all the base boards out looks like shit with 1/4 round.

[@mr.beatnskeet6876]

right? especially for painted white boards. could maybe understand if someone's afraid of ruining original hickory trim or something