Swore by my old nailer until a job in Denver last month proved me wrong.

I was setting hardwood in a 90-year-old house with crazy subfloor movement, and my usual pneumatic gun just wouldn't seat right, but a buddy lent me his cordless model and it handled the bounce perfectly, so what other tools have you all switched to for tricky old builds?

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cooper.piper2mo ago

My buddy's old framing nailer kept jamming on reclaimed timber, so he swapped to a manual coil nailer for the whole project.

troy4492mo ago

Hey @cooper.piper, I read that old timber's uneven density can really mess with pneumatic nailers!

avery_torres492mo ago

Wow, I totally thought those nailers could handle anything! I was using mine on some old barn wood last year and it kept driving nails in sideways. The dense knots just DEFLECTED them like crazy. I had to pull out like ten bent nails. Now I get why that uneven stuff needs a different approach.