Powernail L17518 18 Gauge 1-3/4 Inch Length Hardwood Flooring HD L-Cleat Nail (Box of 1000)

These cleats are great for flooring but they’re tough to find anymore. No jambs. Work great in my freeman.

These are only nails that work in our floor nailer besides the brand name that company doesn’t make much of anymore. Got quickly and good price

Currently using my second box and no problems so far.

It comes in "resined together", flex strips. It is soft iron, but works well with various pneumatic nail guns that spec this gauge. I used it to install a very hard, nail down floor (Golden teak) and it worked well.If you fail to drive it in with the nail gun, you are probably better off just pulling it, and try again, Because it is relatively soft, it will bend all over the place if you try to drive it in with a hammer. This happens for various reasons, mostly nailer problems, such as not enough pressure, or not hitting the nailer activator right, incorrect positioning (typically 1 in a 1000).

This was my first hardwood flooring install. For better stiffness and flatness, I added 5/16 cement board (Hardiepanel) over the 3/4" sub floor boards. I worried that 18ga might be too thin/flexible to drive through all of the materials, but these had no trouble. Hooray for made in America.

Installed 1700 square feet of flooring with no jams or misfires.

These will work but are light compared to the nails from a distributor. Not sure how same length, same guage cleats could be made with less material, but they are.

Worked perfectly in my Freeman 18GA flooring nail gun. Tried to purchased Freeman cleats locally but every one had terrible packaging and cleats broken out of collated packaging which everyone complains about. These hold real well. I know, since I had to remove a couple due to laying a couple of boards I was not satisfied with. Not impossible to pull out but do their job. I have laid 2 kitchen floors with these recently and fully endorse them.