Borrowed a dockside nailing hammer from a relative to make the floor. The nailer turned out to be defective as it never drove the dowels deep enough into the wood, leaving a 1/8 inch section outside. It can seriously injure someone if someone steps on it, so using this nailer was out of the question. I don't want to spend a lot of money on something I would honestly use a few times in my life, nor did I want to try port shipping again, so based on the reviews here on Amazon I decided to give this one a try nailer off. I can say it did what I expected and worked well enough to get the job done