In article ,
Andrew Mawson wrote:
If you put a cut nail (by any name) through the tongue or groove of
any normal thickness floor board all you'd do is split it. They are
normally put about an inch in from the edge of 6 x1 or 5 x 3/4 plain
boards in my experiance, and tongue and groove boards are fixed using
oval or round 'lost head' nails.. concealed nailing through the
grooves uses a thin nail (relative to cut nails)

Cut nails tend to split the sort of crap we get these days instead of
wood. They were fine on the pine the Victorians got - when it was new. But
in centrally heated houses even that will often split with cut nails.

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