Making Hardwood Flooring Splines

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.

Making hardwood flooring splines.

Butâ now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miterâ joint assembled with a thin long grainâ spline. Each individual spline is 1 4 in. Parallel wall lines to the flooring direction is where we need to be square. 3 1 4 3 4 4.

Width x 42 in. Our hardwood floor spline sliptongue is made from domestic hardwoods. Packaged 10 per pack. A change in direction refers to the positioning of the tongue and groove joints between each adjacent plank.

The easiest way to make a hardwood spline is to simply rip a thin strip from a board. Our sliptongue is produced using either red oak or poplar depending on availability. Thickness x 1 2 in. Length x 1 2 in.

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. 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. Width x 1 4 in. 3 4 x 3 1 4 would be.

Hardwood floor spline is used for a transition piece in tongue and groove flooring when changing the direction of the hardwood floor. 36 â sold individually or by the pack. Spline dimensions are 42 in. A successful hardwood floor transition requires one of two different joints in order to change the direction of the planks.

The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right. 1 snap a straight line to mark the first course of.