using advantech OSB?

[iron]

in a few months, i'm going to undertake a basement remodel which involves insulating the floors and walls and a seismic retrofit. i'm for sure going to use advantech as my subfloor (sitting on top of 1" insulation), but i am now contemplating using it as the sheathing for the seismic retrofit. originally, i had planned to use CDX, but it seems advantech could be much better (i still need to verify the shear strengths and whatnot).

so, my question is: is it much harder to nail into advantech vs. regular CDX? i will be nailing at 2" OC in places (typically 6" OC) so there'll be a lot of nails. i don't yet have a nail gun and was hoping to not buy one for this one time project that would require such a tool. i've thought of a palm nailer, which would come in useful in tight spots around floor joists, so the question still stands as to whether advantech will be a PITA to nail.

thanks

 

[Highbeam]

in a few months, i'm going to undertake a basement remodel which involves insulating the floors and walls and a seismic retrofit. i'm for sure going to use advantech as my subfloor (sitting on top of 1" insulation), but i am now contemplating using it as the sheathing for the seismic retrofit. originally, i had planned to use CDX, but it seems advantech could be much better (i still need to verify the shear strengths and whatnot).

so, my question is: is it much harder to nail into advantech vs. regular CDX? i will be nailing at 2" OC in places (typically 6" OC) so there'll be a lot of nails. i don't yet have a nail gun and was hoping to not buy one for this one time project that would require such a tool. i've thought of a palm nailer, which would come in useful in tight spots around floor joists, so the question still stands as to whether advantech will be a PITA to nail.

thanks

I own a palm nailer as well as a regular framing nailer. I've nailed into regular OSB and CDX but not adnvantech. The nail gun doesn't care, it will blow through. I used a palm nailer for joist hanger work and it is effective but NOT something you would want to use if a nailgun would do the job. You can rent nail guns.

 

[iron]

with the nailgun, the trick is to not break the "skin" of the plywood, otherwise you lose a lot of shear capacity in a seismic retrofit. i know i could fine tune the compressor, but might be hit or miss. the drawback to renting is that i will need to do things in stages, not all at once.