Festool for Hardwood Flooring
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- Machines and Tools
By Jim Birch on January 22, 2010
Festool is committed to helping flooring installers work faster, easier, and more profitably. We provide tools that offer specific solutions to the specific challenges of different kinds of floors – hardwood, engineered and laminate floors, straightlay and decorative.
Festool gives flooring installers more than just superior tools. We give you an entire system that solves the challenges of flooring installation, so you can work better, finish faster, and make more profit. It’s like nothing else.
- CHALLENGE: Keeping The Customer’s House Clean
- SOLUTION: Festool Dust Extractors
- Efficient dust extraction is a must when you’re working in someone’s home. All of our flooring tools fit our portable CT Dust Extractor. The CT is tool-triggered, so it’s only on when the tool is. In operation it’s remarkably quiet but extremely efficient. You leave a clean job, and a satisfied customer.
- CHALLENGE: Long Straight Cuts Without Complications
- SOLUTION: Festool Circular Saws and Guide Rail
- With our TS 55 Plunge-cut Saw and Guide Rail you can make absolutely precise cuts anywhere, without clamping. This is a convenience on straight installations and a must for border work and inlays. Installers also appreciate the way the splinterguard protects the brittle wear layer from chipping, even on laminates. The Guide Rail lets you saw with shop accuracy at the site, and makes quick work of chores like trimming ends. It doesn’t need taping or clamping to the surface, so it leaves no marks and lets you work at any point on the floor.
- CHALLENGE: Accurate, Repeatable Crosscutting at the Site
- SOLUTION: Festool MFT table and Circular Saws
- Need 10 or 100 pieces exactly the same? Precise angle cutoffs? Our Multi-function Table folds up so you can take it on the job. With its adjustable angle fence and perforated top, it turns our Plunge-cut Saw into a chop, miter and radial arm sawing system. The job goes quicker – and when you’re done, fold it up and take it home.
- CHALLENGE: Precision Regrooving
- SOLUTION: Festool Routers
- Our OF 1010 EQ Router is an indispensable tool for regrooving. The ability to fine-tune the depth adjustment eliminates height variations from one board to the next, even in difficult products like laminate and pre-finished flooring. The router is also invaluable for precise inlay and medallion work. Dust extraction cleans as you go so you don’t have to stop, get up, and clean up before moving on.
- CHALLENGE: Fast Sanding In Tight Spaces
- SOLUTION: Festool Rotex RO 150 FEQ Dual-Mode sander
- Need to sand fast in small places, without scratch marks? How about in a closet, on stairs, or the perimeter of a room? Our Rotex 150 E Dual-Mode Sander is the way to go. The shape makes it easy to sand close to walls, and it switches from rotary to random orbital motion to give you fast material removal and fine sanding in a single tool.
- CHALLENGE: Clean Scribing Cuts
- SOLUTION: Festool Jigsaws
- Finally, a powerful jigsaw that does what you always wished one could do. Our Trion Jigsaw has a blade support for true vertical cuts, and a splinterguard that prevents chipping even in brittle materials. You can scribe to cutouts and similar features quickly and cleanly. And the non-scarring base plate on the Trion won’t damage pre-finished products.
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