We’re installing underlayment board for kitchen linoleum. We already have five boxes of vintage ring-shanks, 1 3/4 ” 34 gauge double-zinc dipped, that we’re looking to use somewhere. The box says they are asbestos siding anchor face nails. (Told you they were old!) What do you think? Made to reaist stains, streaks and rust in exterior use, but how good did they make nails 50 or 60 years ago?
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Good enough to still be holding up a zillion squares of asbestos siding. Joe H
Talk to the folks who are selling you the linoleum. The manufacturers may have specific requirements if you want them to honor their guarantees.
Flies spread disease. Keep yours zipped.
for linoleum?
...........just use the nails. Jeff Genius has it's limits.....but stupidity knows no bounds
Underlayment nails are ringed but also have a nice smooth and thin top head. If these you have are rough hot dipped things then you'll need to set'm deep and skim over with floor leveler to make for a smooth base the doesn't telegraph spots. Otherwise, you are fine.
Ya, underlayment nails also have a tapered head, buy a pound for a buck and give your nails to the PBS auction.
Wow, Piffin, you hit the nail right on the head! OK, sorry for the bad pun, but the nailheads look kinda like WheatChex cereal. The installation how-to you suggest sounds distressingly similar to finishing out drywall, which I thought (prayed, begged) was mercifully behind me. Considering that each sheet of underlayment has about 14,012 nail targets printed on it, I do believe I'll save these nails for E-bay and high-tail it to the lumberyard in the morning. You're a god!
Now hold on there!
Lord of my castle yes, but a god? I'd have to create those nails out of thin air, making them in my own image, to take on that name.
Maybe we'll compronmise on Prosperonian Prince or Tauntonite Second Degree...
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