00:00Welcome back again to our flooring demonstrations here with a this is a air hardwood floor nailer
00:18used specifically because the shoe is already preset for three-quarter inch hardwood floor
00:25which was certainly the most common and before engineered hardwood so a lot of the heavier
00:32floors if you're having them installed you're gonna install it yourself we'll use a three-quarter
00:38inch wood what you want to do is you want to have your nail of course in just like this nail the
00:43smaller nail here I'm showing right into that groove there and this is what this nailer is
00:48going to do if you have this over over the front of this here like this that's going to when you
00:55hit it that's going to drive that nail all the way in to put your nails in and usually you'll put them
01:00in about three inches from the ends and maybe one in the middle of this board and so that you make
01:06sure that your foot your your wood's not going to move on you but you got to remember that would all
01:11breeze and no matter how tight you put your wood it together over time you're gonna start seeing some
01:17gaps in it that's just because the wood breeze and moves on you with the different temperatures now
01:23this particular three-quarter inch wood would use a two inch nail this is an L nail they do come
01:31different head types so make sure you have the right nail type for the right nailer and you're just
01:37going to slide it in pull this pressure thumb back here and it's going to set right behind your right
01:45your nails like that there and so the pressures on there all the time as you're nailing the next nail
01:51advances so that you'll be able to keep going and putting them in and hook up your small compressor
01:56maybe a little donut compressor maybe one with a couple of little small tanks on it but you need
02:02about 90 to 100 psi don't go more than 100 psi and make sure your compressor recovers at 80 so that
02:12you keep the pressure on otherwise your your piston that drives the nails isn't going to come back up
02:17so it's got a fire down and come back up so the next nail can advance you have a weighted hammer and
02:24you can use the rubber end to bang your boards together make sure they're tight and the rubber
02:30end is what you hit the the end of the nailer with and you don't have to give it a real hard bang
02:34just enough to trigger it and you'll find out what that you know how much pressure it is practice maybe
02:39on a couple of boards first and make sure that you're holding it right and that you're putting
02:45it straight in and that then you can give it a bang and if you're standing up as you normally would be
02:53here it's on the counter of course but make sure you put the weight here on the back of this handle
02:57not here where you would be tipping it forward you want to keep the shoe on the back flush and flat on
03:03top of your hardwood so you know your your pressure should be more towards the back so that it's above
03:10here and keeping these this pad nice and flat on top of your hardwood and then give it a bang and then
03:15move it across give it another one and just that's how you advance and put your put your nails in okay
03:21so there's a once your strips gone of course you're putting another one in and a lot of these have a
03:28safety now as well so that's got to be retracted so that so that it can be fired but that's just a
03:35safety so if you're holding it up and inadvertently hit there that it wouldn't fire and drive a nail
03:41across somewhere that you didn't want it okay so there's another item that'll make your job easier
03:46to put down your hardwood floor
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