Mobile home construction is all about using light, thin materials, which doesn't work too well with the requirements of nailing down a hardwood floor. Nailed floors require solid wood underlay, while mobile home base material is often particleboard, which doesn't hold nails well. One alternative is to do a floating floor, which doesn't require nails or glue and can go over any hard, flat surface. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Pull off the trim from the perimeter of the floor with a pry bar and hammer. Don't break it as you take it off. Set it aside.
2. Lay a course of plastic underlayment along the edge of the room where you want to start, from end to end, cutting it to fit with a razor knife.
3. Set a floating floorboard next to the wall at one end. Set spacers between the board and the wall to hold the board out slightly. Press a second board off the end of the first, pressing them together until they click.
4. Repeat, laying floorboards end to end off each other along the wall. Cut the last board on a miter saw as needed to fit.
5. Set the subsequent courses of floorboards down course by course, connecting the boards by their long sides. Arrange them to be staggered between the courses. Cut each course as needed at the end with the miter saw. Lay more plastic underlayment as necessary.
6. Cut the boards of the final course of flooring on your table saw to fit along the ending wall with a 3/8-inch space there.
7. Reinstall the floor trim with a trim nailer. The trim will cover the spaces by the walls.
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