On Jul 11, 12:24*am, Gordon Shumway wrote:
In your opinion what would you prefer for a fastener?

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:24:22 -0700 (PDT), RicodJour



wrote:
On Jul 10, 4:47*pm, Gordon Shumway wrote:
I'm replacing the vinyl floor in our kitchen with a porcelain tile
floor. *When I removed the old vinyl and the particle board
underlayment I found it was fastened with a fastener type that I
hadn't seen before.

The fastener is shaped similar to a letter "L" and has some small
ridges on the long leg. *What kind of fastener is this and what are
they called?

As others have mentioned, they're called cleats. I've never seen them
used to fasten underlayment, just wood strip flooring. There are
better fasteners for underlayment.

Underlayment nails, aka bright ring-shank nails. You can also use
narrow crown staples if you want to do it faster, but that would
require you to rent a staple gun and buy a box of staples which would
be way more staples than you'd need for a kitchen.

R