Making Hardwood Flooring Splines

Parallel wall lines to the flooring direction is where we need to be square.

Making hardwood flooring splines.

The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right. 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. Our hardwood floor spline sliptongue is made from domestic hardwoods.

Natural wood grain finish. The easiest way to make a hardwood spline is to simply rip a thin strip from a board. Length x 1 2 in. 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.

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. Hie spline would likely split along theâ grain and the joint would come apart. 3 1 4 3 4 4. Hardwood flooring splines are used to change direction for wood flooring that is nailed down.

A change in direction refers to the positioning of the tongue and groove joints between each adjacent plank. 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. 36 â sold individually or by the pack. Thickness x 1 2 in.

Butâ now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miterâ joint assembled with a thin long grainâ spline. Width x 42 in. Width x 1 4 in. 3 4 x 3 1 4 would be.

Each individual spline is 1 4 in. Packaged 10 per pack.