Power Jack 200

Here's a great hardwood flooring tool used mostly for mechanically fastened (nailed Power Jack For Hardwood Floors or stapled) hardwood floors when you get up to that last wall line and run into some boards that aren't very straight. Often installers will use a long handled screwdriver with hammer and drive the screwdriver into the floor, pry back the crooked boards then nail into the tongue.

With the floor jack there will be no grumbling when those screwdrivers slide out of from position, or when you miss pounding the end and hit the back of your hand. No dinged board edges either as the floor jack mechanism grabs the tongue side of the board, far below the face surface.

The power jack extends far enough away from the final wall when you can't use the power of a mallet trying to squeeze those last boards together. Once it's ratcheted simply blind nail into the tongue, or if you're too close, top nail to fasten the boards.

The Power Jack can also be used for stubborn boards in other areas of the installation by screwing a block into the subfloor in front of the work. The block will offer the same structural strength as a wall shown in the above photo example.

Manufactured by Powernail, the product is hard to come by locally but can be found online.

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