Scribe Wood Floors

Even the slightest deviations along their length can become noticeable if a new floor does not match the walls imperfections.

Scribe wood floors.

Walls are rarely straight or true. Scribing is a technique used when you re installing laminate flooring against an uneven wall. Scribing helps you fit a cabinet side paneling or molding to irregular surfaces like brick. Most walls aren t perfectly straight but having a straight first row with a uniform expansion gap is critical when you lay flooring.

Wood by wright 1 902 809 views. You place the boards on the subfloor fit the tongue and groove ends together tap them to fit. A compass type tool allows you to transfer a profile from one surface to another. How to scribe flooring to the wall.

In installing strip flooring training the trades jul 18 the final photo shows a scribing block made by howard brickman a wood flooring specialist. Then set the compass a little wider than the widest gap and scribe the line. How to scribe a piece of wood. Making the live edge slab family dining room table with epoxy fill for video edit duration.

Roe osborn senior editor at jlc responds. Laying hardwood flooring is relatively simple. First support the paneling or molding so its edge is plumb. The block is simply a scrap of the flooring being installed in this case 2 1 4 inch wide oak with finger holes drilled in it for holding it during the scribe.