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Install Wedges and Secure First Row

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What happens here

After laying the initial staggered planks, use plastic wedges (like tile wedges) along the wall to maintain a small gap, allowing the 'floating' floor to expand and contract. This prevents the flooring from pushing directly against the wall and buckling. To temporarily secure the first planks against the wedges and prevent them from shifting during the installation of subsequent rows, use a brad nailer to fire a brad nail through the plank into the wall. These brad nails will be covered later by baseboards.

Goal: Create an expansion gap and stabilize the initial planks.

Tools and materials

  • Brad Nailer
  • Brad Nails
  • Plastic Wedges

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tongue lift our small tongue on top get them in place everything's nice and sealed and just break it down there do the same for our small piece we got our flooring started I've actually never done this I mean I've used wedges but these are from tile and they always fall down I'm going to try to put like one Brad nail and see if they'll stay oh that's perfect so what that'll do is once we've got our line started because we know this line is completely flat with the rest of the house when we push our flooring against it we're going to keep that straight line without having to go underneath this drywall making sure

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