mfr: Cepco Tool Company A versatile jack for straightening and joining materials of all sizes over any surface ! · Work over any surface! Use over wood sub floors, concrete subfloors, or open joist construction. · Incredibly powerful. Join 3/4" strip flooring, 2x10 decking, 4'x8' plywood, 2x8 roofing. · Offers hands free holding of material. Jack will hold position hands free ! Jack has 12" of travel. Length of jack is 24" fully retracted. Working away from wall: Simply slide jack over desired length 2x4. No need to fasten jack or 2x4 in place. Turn side wind crank. Jack will self lock to 2x4 and squeeze flooring. To disengage from 2x4 just tap lock bracket with hammer. Working near wall: Press directly off wall (or brace if finished wall). Turn sidewind crank. ItÆs that simple.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Cepco Tool QuikJack Flooring Jack:
Great tool, works very well. Just used it installing 3-1/4" wide oak flooring and worked extermely well. I wish Cepco would provide a rubber/nylon protector to attach to the bottom brackets for the clamp bar. As one of the other reviews commented, the tool has some weight and can very easily damage flooring if dropped or slid. I used a low cardboard box to place the jack in to slide it across the floor while working, it prevented dinging the floor. Overall, a very good investment for putting in flooring. (I... more info
A very handy tool for DIY hardwood floor install. Essential for the last few rows of planks, at the ending wall and tight corners. A bit pricey for a what is essentially a simple mechanism. If you have a helper, you could make do without this tool, by using a few wood blocks and a pry bar to squeeze planks together and nail. For the price I fail to understand why the manufacturer had to skimp on instructions. I could not make any sense out of the one page instruction manual and had to figure out the... more info
Good 'n Tight:
I like this tool. It really helped me get a professional looking job done with my 3/4 Cherry Hardwood floors. I didn't need it on every row of boards but it help me straighten them up when they got out of line.
For the newcomers to hardwood flooring and engineered floor installations...:
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I am experienced in laying laminate floors as I always chose to go that route with our past homes. Our current home, however, had a partial hardwood floor installed... and the rest was carpet of the brand 'Nasty'. So that had to go. Ripping out the 700 sq ft of Bruce Hardwood flooring would be a nightmare given that it was stapled and and I also felt it would be capital destruction as it is valuable and pretty.
So I opted to buy another 2000+ sq ft of hardwood and finish... more info
