Editorial Review
Whether you’re a professional flooring installer or a weekend do-it-yourself warrior with a load of hardwood flooring staring at you, this nailer is far and away one of the best ways to get the job done.
Yes, it’s spendy, especially if you’re a homeowner just planning to do a couple of rooms. But if you weigh the cost of a professional installation, you come out miles ahead doing it yourself, even with this purchase, and you can work at your own pace instead of rushing a rental back to the store. If price is an obstacle, you might consider a manual nailer; you’ll pay about half as much, but you’ll do more than twice the work!
Professionals love this model, and for good reason. It’s made of aircraft-grade aluminum, so it’s light and strong. Your compressor needs to run between 60 and 100 psi, but best performance came in between 70 and 90 psi. There’s practically no learning curve, so with just a light tap of the mallet, you’ll be cruising along your flooring with 420 inch-pounds of nailing pressure.
The base plates – one is for half-inch planks, the other, ¾-inch -- are nice and wide, giving you rock-solid stability, and the magazine holds 110 fasteners, keeping reloading of your 1-1/2- to 2-inch cleats to a minimum.
We like the long-reach handle, but a shorter version is available, too. If you’re putting down hardwood or engineered flooring, you’d be doing yourself a favor by picking up this nailer. -- Kris Jensen-Van Heste
What’s in the Box
Nailer, graphite mallet, pre-finished flooring adapter foot
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Customer Reviews
Great tool 
2007-03-06
I did not buy this tool, but I rented from Home Depot. This Bostich model is the sole model of pnuematic floor nailer that you can rent from HD (In the Chicago area anyway). When I rented the tool I can only imagine the constant use and abuse the tool had undergone from umtold previous rentals (I had to call around to several stores to find one available). Anyway, the tool worked flawlessly. Easy to load, easy to operate, never jammed. It did the job making the operation of the nailer a non-issue in the floor installation project. Although I consider this an expensive tool I will purchase the tool before I begin my next floor project because it is cost effective in the event you have a couple of flooring projects more than 300sq feet each. This tool, and this model in particular, ranks high on the cool tool to have list.
A gereat tool and timesaver 2007-01-18
What can I say but, EXCELLENT. It beats renting one. I was able to complete the project at my leasure. Every once in a while it would jam, but it was easilly fixed.
Bostitch Pnuematic Flooring Nailer 2007-01-10
Bar none...best flooring nailer. Have used the staples as well as the traditional nailers, and there is no comparison. Just completed a teak floor and this nailer far out-performed others. Also, Amazon customer service was outstanding when the unit shipped with a minor problem. Great nailer and a great place to buy it.
Good Buy Worth The Extra Money Over Manual Nailers 2007-01-09
No real complaints about the nailer. The only issue I had was that if the gun ran down to 2 nails and it was fired, the gun would misfire and damage the wood. I put my first hardwood floor down with this nailer and it looks great. If your planning on doing more then 1 installation this is the way to go. If not, just rent.
Great results & saved money 2007-01-03
We have installed a bamboo floor and a maple floor with great results. It is hard work but the Bostitch MIIFN saved us money as we didn't have to pay for installation and saved us time as well.
fast and easy to use 2008-07-20
nailer required the handle extension to be installed after receipt but the installation was easy, only four bolts. the prefinished flooring plate was not installed and the instructions for this were not as clear as they could have been, but even so it took but a few minutes to figure it out and install. the prefinished flooring plate makes a simple and fast job of intalling prefinished flooring and protects the flooring from damage. if not extremely careful nailers w/o the special plate tend to mar the flooring. i would highly recommend this product for ease of use, quality of product, and performance.
A great nailer with some minor flaws 
2008-05-14
We bought this nailer to install 1800sqft of hardwoods in our house. Here's our experience:
Pros:
Beefy. You can tell it's made for the pros. And you can smack it hard to help get warped boards tight.
It does exactly what it's supposed to.
The included mallet feels like high quality, and its just the right weight.
Cons:
We had a lot of problems with the nailer allowing the last nail in a stack to fall out of the nailer. This is a problem because it can fall half way out, then when you put the nailer down on the finished floor, it's easy for the sharp nail to scratch the finish. Get in the habit of setting the nailer on the unfinished part of the floor.
The nailer includes a plastic shoe that bolts to the underside. The instructions say this is for finished floors whereas the normal plate is for unfinished (site finished) floors. The shoe was useless for us. It made it nearly impossible to line up the nailer with the tongue. The normal plate didn't scratch the floor at all. So we used it that way. Maybe softer woods would have scratched (we used distressed oak).
Having to attach the handle was annoying. It also seems like a clunky afterthought. But once installed, it worked fine.
If you don't smack it with a hammer hard enough, it won't drive the nail in all the way in. If it's half way out, you can use channel lock pliers to pry the nail out. But if you get it 90% of the way in, you'll have to use a nail set to drive the nail in the rest of the way so that the next board fits. This is a real pain. The nail metal is soft. It likes to deform or break off. This is more operator error than anything else. So smack it hard.
How it could be better:
Stop letting the last nail fall out.
Make the nail cartridge slightly longer so you can put the next stack of nails in sooner.
Redesign the handle.
What we learned:
For wood floors, wider is better. 5" wide boards mean half the cutting, fitting, and nailing compared to 2.5" wide boards.
Also pick up a finish nailer to help when you're close to walls. If you take the rubber guard off, a finish nailer can nail through the tongue just like this nailer. Less face nailing.
A rough start 2007-07-18
A word of caution. When attaching the handle my husband screwed it down to tight and broke the handle. I then had to order a new one. The handle is not as strong as I would have hoped, We have not had a chance to use it yet, we will be laying about 1100 sq feet of flooring in another month, so I'll let you know how it goes.
time saving tool 2007-04-11
I own a manual floor nailer but this tool is a joy to use...
Bostitch Pneumatic Nailer 2007-03-09
I have used the nailer for almost 1500 sq. ft. of hardwood flooring (3/4" t & g Brazilian Redwood). The nailer works great with only one flaw. When the clip of nails gets to the end it may jamb with the last nail. Even if it doesn't jamb the last nail falls out of the nailer. Getting the gun unjambed was not particularly hard, just time consuming. The instructions for the nailer could be better. Otherwise the nailer worked great. Used a Porter Cable pancake compressor.
