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Tanner-'op

wrote:
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:40:34 +0100, "George \(dicegeorge\)"
wrote:

Is there any reason why my old floorboards are nailed, other than
that it's quicker?

Historically boards were nailed with flooring brads through the
tongues( or was it the grooves) to hide the nails .

Snipped,

The idea of a flooring brad is to nail down through the face of the
floorboard - if you try using these through the tongues, you won't have a
tongue to fix the next board to.

If you are 'secret' nailing floor boards, you generally bang an oval or lost
head nail 'on the skew' through the side of the board above the root of the
tongue and then belt them below the surface using a nail punch (and hammer).

And long. laborious and f****ng arm aching job when using the method to fix
T,G and Veed boards to ceilings.

Tanner-'op