Square Head Nails For Wood Floors

While some older floors actually look better with a few dents and nicks unwanted hammer dents should be removed.

Square head nails for wood floors. A smooth face hammer should be used when face nailing floors. Square cut nails are hand crafted cut from steel or iron plates. These nails have been heat treated and tempered for special hardness. Most nails have diamond points that are slightly blunted and are good for general use.

Most hardwood floors are installed with invisible nails and those that aren t are either old or intended to look old. The angles of this cupped head range from tight on finishing nails to saucer like on a drywall nail. Our hardened steel square cut flooring nails are used for laying tongue and groove hardwood flooring not recommended for face nailing softwood flooring as the head is too small. Their head style is similar to boat nails but made from a slightly lighter gauge providing more nails per pound.

Copper square headed cut nails and other decorative nail heads add accent and authenticity to wood floors. Solid steel hinge nails are ideal for fastening antique hinges or face nailing floors. How to refinish floors with antique nail heads. Rooted in age old tradition our period restoration square cut flooring nails are cut much the same way they were 150 years ago.

Rooted in age old tradition our period restoration square nails are cut much the same way they were 150 years ago.