Ive found alot of builders installing solid oak wood floors with tongue tite screws and they are telling me this is the best way? Has any1 used them before? Are they any good? Can you fix into chipboard with them?
I believe you can use over chipboard, but with the normal seasonal movement surely the wood is much more likely to crack and split? Even when installing the screws your much more likely to split the tongue only way around it would be drilling pilot holes everytime :shock:, which obviously would be very time consuming.
Thats what I thought but apparently they dont need pilot holes as they are so narrow, I would of thought they would split the wood but These guys reckon they are putting loads of it down without problems. Not something I would normally do myself
I've used them where the nailer won't get in by using an angle drill. You have to get the angle of the screw just right to avoid splitting the tongue but you get a good fixing. Wouldn't want to do a whole job with them though. You can also use them to face fix your first and last rows by just a tiny countersink first,fixing and filling afterwards.
On the feedback page of our installation manual a floor fitter is describing his experience with these screws: http://www.woodmanual.co.uk/feedback.html (John - 2nd entry) They are made by Elka, but we don't believe in them (the best way the "screw" your floor is to screw it down :lol: )
used tongtite screws many times no probs but you shouldnt use naildown or screws onto chipboard must plywood first otherwise possible failure
