Making Hardwood Flooring Splines

Width x 42 in.

Making hardwood flooring splines.

Butâ now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miterâ joint assembled with a thin long grainâ spline. Spline dimensions are 42 in. 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. 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.

3 4 x 3 1 4 would be. Hardwood flooring splines are used to change direction for wood flooring that is nailed down. The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right. A change in direction refers to the positioning of the tongue and groove joints between each adjacent plank.

36 â sold individually or by the pack. Hie spline would likely split along theâ grain and the joint would come apart. A successful hardwood floor transition requires one of two different joints in order to change the direction of the planks. Natural wood grain finish.

Our sliptongue is produced using either red oak or poplar depending on availability. Hardwood floor spline is used for a transition piece in tongue and groove flooring when changing the direction of the hardwood floor. Width x 1 4 in. Thickness x 1 2 in.

Packaged 10 per pack. Each individual spline is 1 4 in. 1 snap a straight line to mark the first course of. While in the first room the grooves on each plank might point away from the door a transition allows that direction to change and the grooves to point the.

Our hardwood floor spline sliptongue is made from domestic hardwoods. The easiest way to make a hardwood spline is to simply rip a thin strip from a board.