I need to secure 1/4 inch underlay to my subfloor in my small basement bathroom.
The subfloor is 5/8 OSB tapconned through 1/4 inch (vacuum formed plastic vapor barrier/support).
Anyways, I can only find 1 1/4 ringed underlay nails. They hit the concrete.
Could I use 1 inch brad staples instead?
Any other suggestions?
I suppose you could use the staples but not sure. You might add a bit of insurance in the form of construction adhesive as well. Cheers, cc
According to James \\"Cubby\\" Culbertson :
The pros doing our installation used a narrow crown (18ga I think) stapler over the 5/8" plywood subfloor. The staples were probably 1".
They drove a _lot_ of staples. < 8" spacing overall. Nothing whatsoever is moving.
If you really want to, construction adhesive will remove any doubts.
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