This is a characteristic you want in a flooring nailer as, invariably, your back is going to get sore after extended use. Taking a look at the Porta-Nails 470A Pneumatic flooring nailer we noticed that it was nice and tall – 23″, in fact, which is one of the longest handled products we’ve used. Porta-Nails 470A Pneumatic Flooring Nailer Build Quality In addition to this tool, we also had a Bostitch SmartPoint nailer to handle the wood at the edges of our walls. That meant lots of planning and furniture moving – but it also meant that we wanted to be able to go to town quickly and lay flooring in a fast and very efficient manner. This was a pretty big job, and we needed a tool to get it done quickly as the residents were planning on staying in the home while the work was being done. We were taking on a project to lay over 1200 square feet of Harris Wood Red Oak (Dark Gunstock) in a craftsman-style home. The Porta-Nails 470A Pneumatic Flooring Nailer is a pneumatic model which uses 80-90 PSI of air pressure to drive the nail into 1/2″ to 3/4″ tongue and groove flooring with a single, less-aggressive strike. With most decent floor nailers, the ratchet will then reset when the nail is at the correct depth. With a manual flooring nailer, the very act of striking the rubber ram cap drives the ratcheting mechanism which sends the cleat into the wood until it’s all the way in (typically a couple of hits). As anyone who has done flooring knows, the two tools work in basically the same way, but with one exception. Having both refinished and installed hardwood flooring in several homes, going from a manual nailer to a pneumatic is a bit of a jump – but a welcome one.
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