Hi all,
Good info on this forum and my first post, but wish I knew about this dedicated hardwood flooring forum earlier.

I'm installing engineered t/g 7 1/8" wide x 3/4" walnut boards on a new subfloor.
I've read this http://www.hardwoodinstaller.com/hardwoodinstaller/hardwood_flooring_borders.htm but I didn't quite get some of the points they were making regarding the order of installation.

I don't really want to glue down any of the boards onto the subfloor and I don't have an undercut floor slot cutting bit for the router. I do have a 1/4" slot cutting bit for my shaper or mounted router if its required.

On the attached sketch I've numbered the steps and would like your opinion and suggestions regarding the procedure and methods.

I'd be starting at the top left-hand corner by installing the picture frame boards #1 & 2, followed by the first board in the field #3, then #4 the first bottom board in the picture frame. I was hoping that #5 could be cut to length and tapped in using the factory tongue at the bottom end.

The boards are wide enough that I can use the pneumatic nailer to nail the first board to the wall and the the second last board near the opposite wall, I'd then have to face nail the edges which will be under the baseboard anyway. There will be a 5/8 expansion gap around the walls.

There will be an inlay of a simple decorative border into two channels dadoed into the second picture frame boards all the way around, this will be glued and fitted into the boards prior to installation.

Thanks, Bill

ps. the varying colors in the diagram are there to make it easier to distinguish the individual boards, they are all walnut with the exception of thin maple/wenge inlays.