"Laminate or Hardwood Installation Tips Anyone?," in the Floorcovering Installation & Maintenance Tips forum, begins: "Hitachi sliders, and dewalt are nice, but i want some of those festool setups!!!!..."
The basic festool rig has become very affordable. I highly recommend them. They do use plastic motor housings, though.(not because they are lighter, but because they are superior for reasons beyond the grasp of many people) Mine seems to work just fine .No problem lies therein.
If you get on their mailing list, you can find deals on refurbished stuff. Maybe you don't even need to get on the list. It is probably listed on their site. I think it is festoolusa.com
INSTALATION TIP:- for fitting glueless laminates (angle up and push in types), a decent pair of fingerless leather cycling gloves (with padding) saves your palms from all that banging on the edge.
When cutting the 7" boards to length , i put 4 fingers on the top of the board and the thumb underneath .. bring down the blade almost to the bottom , and pull the board up to the blade with your thumb , makes a quick and accurate cut every time ..
Get a MagnumShear. Best tool I've ever bought. Cut right in the work area with no saw dust. I've got one of the older ones that cuts up to 18" width. I bought it when I was doing this 3000 sft house. I figured it would save all kinds of time having to walk back and forth to the garage to make cuts. It probably cut a day off the entire job.
Your brain never stops does it? The holdrdownnow! I need to hire you to run my engineering dept.
Don't even think about it bucko, I mailed a photo of this to myself .....my lawyer will be in touch. You........you patent hog.
Clamps come in a pack of eight for a FloorPro member discounted price of just just $79.95. (Regularly $109.05, screws not included.) Hope you don't own the rights to the shuthimupnow.
Yes Nick, it comes complete with twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.
Don't even think about it bucko, I mailed a photo of this to myself .....my lawyer will be in touch. You........you patent hog.
Clamps come in a pack of eight for a FloorPro member discounted price of just just $79.95. (Regularly $109.05, screws not included.)
Hey, them are fightin' words Mr. Lo Down.
For your information sir, my customers are getting screwed.........er, I mean screws.
Arlo has been to Coos Bay twice that I can recall.... great concert to see. When you go to see it, be sure to ride your........ motor...cy............... cle.
I recently installed a floating wood floor, over a radiant heat subfloor. The room was a bit over thirty feet wide, and to minimze the expansion requirements, I started the installation in the middle of the room. Wood flooring moves in the direction of the tongue, so by doing so, you cut your expansion room needs in half. I will normally use backer blocks made from scraps to secure these rows, and nail them to a wood subfloor with my brad nailer. But with radiant heating or concrete, I just glue my backer blocks to the subfloor, to secure the rows. My Orcon glue gun, and low temp sticks have sufficient hold to get the job done. In this picture, I needed to secure the rows, and gain some clearance so as not to damage the underlay, or the poly under it. On a concrete glue down, you would just eliminate the long "spacer" boards, and put the backers right up against the row you start at.
The holdrdownnow! I need to hire you to run my engineering dept. 
