Nothing wrong with a stapler, I use it all the time on the new builds I do. Depending how flat the floor is that you are plying with floorboards for me. Do have a nailer aswell.
I use to use a air stapler with no problems until I got a call back 1 hour away for 1 squeaking staple argggg! Got some advice on here to change to coil nailer and gotta say I much prefer it. Defo no squeaks. Also better of your putting flexible levelling compound over ply Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That was on a chipboard floor too. Think it was floating tho? That probably didn’t help Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I think the tool was good but I found the staples were not doing what they suppose to do. Not twisting enough to get a good grab Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
When we did new build they supplied staples, but as above always new chipboard. Was always fine. Going over boards always use a coil nailer.
I always used to use the spotnails divergent stapler, the one you bash with a mallet. Still do on small bathrooms to be honest. Bought the spotnails air version for my compressor a few years back. As above though I got fed up with squeaking and a couple of years ago I bought the CN45 nailer - love it bit of kit and no more squeaking! Headlam do a 110v screw gun which I borrowed off a mate last week for a job and was well impressed so thinking of getting one as would be better than nailing for bad subfloors. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Yeah the one with the mallet use to get a decent fixing. They were narrower Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
