flooring strip

Hardwood flooring strips, which are tongued and grooved, are a good choice.

(The flooring strips are three and five-eighths inches wide.)

Working from below, drill pilot holes through the subfloor into the flooring strips (be careful not to drill through the floor).

Today most wood floors are made of 3/4-inch thick, tongue-and-groove hardwood boards (called "flooring strips") that are nailed to a subfloor.

IT WAS LYING precisely aligned with the oak flooring strips.

Beneath the highly decorative flooring boards are flooring strips bedded in mortar, followed by brick arches supported by iron beams.