keegs
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That's the one I have...it does the job.
Flooring Nailer
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That's the one I have...it does the job.
clemsonfor
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CAuse even if i can rent one for $20/day i would have to floor the whole room in a day to get my money worth, instead of a little as i go after work 2-3 hours here and there on saturaday till i finish, so my $80 i spen on HF will be cheaper than renting for 3 days or so.
hawkeye08
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Northern tool pressure washer, mixes water into the oil in the pump
Reading your signature, I think I have that pressure washer feature also. My started mixing water into pump oil and stopped working. I have nice Honda engine sitting on a nice little cart. The pump is apart sitting in a box, waiting for decision on whether to repair pump, replace pump or buy complete new pressure washer...
Okay you manual guys, how much of a workout do you get?
After 3 shoulder surgeries I am not real eager to beat the snot out of myself and need a 4th! When you start adding in the cost of surgeries, rehab time, time away from projects, etc the cost of a flooring nailer gets cheaper every minute.
After 3 shoulder surgeries I am not real eager to beat the snot out of myself and need a 4th! When you start adding in the cost of surgeries, rehab time, time away from projects, etc the cost of a flooring nailer gets cheaper every minute.
CurlyDave
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Another thing to realize about buying specialty tools is that there is a learning curve.
When you get your flooring nailer, don't start in your biggest, most important room.
Start in an obscure closet that only you and maybe your wife will ever see. Do all the closets first, then the least-used room and so on. By the time you get to the living room, you will be making a lot fewer mistakes.
When you get your flooring nailer, don't start in your biggest, most important room.
Start in an obscure closet that only you and maybe your wife will ever see. Do all the closets first, then the least-used room and so on. By the time you get to the living room, you will be making a lot fewer mistakes.
clemsonfor
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The reason i ask is the forester i use to work with retired to NC kind of western NC but more like NW of Charlotte by 1.5 hours or so. Anyway before he left from GA he laid about 600-900 ft of Hickory and bought a HF nailer to do it with. He has also bought a tractor, i was like #$%% Jon is on TBN now. After i read your profile i saw you had a KUBOTa, and have had it for a while i think Jon has had a Massey for only about a year so i knew after i asked that you were not him, but every thing else matched up.
clemsonfor
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Yea i try to keep it fresh. I have thought that if it goes i will buy a HF pressure washer they go on sale i think for less than $200 without coupon, or is it over 200? It actually looks like it has as many features as my current washer that pukes oil out of the pump. The new pumps at Northern seem to be the price of a new unit or almost there?
/pine
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FWIW...
not trying to be argumentative but....unless the closet wall is very close to being parallel to the longer walls of the main room the flooring could run way out of square when you reach the walls on the other side of the room.
Many professional installers will actually start the installation in the center of the room and reverse the direction of the t&g...they do this by setting a control line based on measurements off the main (opposite) walls...
...to make the direction change they cut a tongue that is double the width and use it to reverse the diretion
clemsonfor
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What?
i understand about about the closet not being square to the main (obvious area) room of the house, but you lost me after pro installers start in the middle of a room, explain this to me better, i feel i dont have the skill to do this but am interested. I an going to start on the entry way wall so that it is square with it and then run toward the back of that room with my flooring.
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Many, but not all pros, start in the middle when installing flooring. I lurk over at the JLC site. Here's what one pro had to say about its advantages.
"I like to start in the middle of the room for several reasons:
- easier to go around objects
- large rooms go much faster with 2 nailers going in each direction
- if the room is off square you can split the difference at the opposite floors
- I can get straighter starter row in the middle than against a wall.
- It gives me better options for layout - ie not a 1/4" board running along a bar or cabinet. ..."
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