Making Hardwood Flooring Splines
Flooring installers do this by tapping a makeshift tongue called a spline or slip tongue into the grooves of the boards in the first course.
Making hardwood flooring splines. Thickness x 1 2 in. Width x 42 in. Spline dimensions are 42 in. Our sliptongue is produced using either red oak or poplar depending on availability.
The easiest way to make a hardwood spline is to simply rip a thin strip from a board. A change in direction refers to the positioning of the tongue and groove joints between each adjacent plank. Hie spline would likely split along theâ grain and the joint would come apart. 36 â sold individually or by the pack.
Hardwood floor spline is used for a transition piece in tongue and groove flooring when changing the direction of the hardwood floor. While in the first room the grooves on each plank might point away from the door a transition allows that direction to change and the grooves to point the. Hardwood flooring splines are used to change direction for wood flooring that is nailed down. Our hardwood floor spline sliptongue is made from domestic hardwoods.
Length x 1 2 in. Each individual spline is 1 4 in. The best way to make a hardwood spline is shown in the drawings at right. Parallel wall lines to the flooring direction is where we need to be square.
3 4 x 3 1 4 would be. 3 1 4 3 4 4. Width x 1 4 in. Packaged 10 per pack.
Butâ now imagine putting a lot of stress on a miterâ joint assembled with a thin long grainâ spline. Natural wood grain finish.