Tips for installing bowties between floor and walls

Does anyone have any good tips on how to insert the bowties between the floor/wall connection?

Example here:

Hello there,
Just an idea, but could it be possible to use some kind of wedge by inserting it from the top? Maybe some kind of wooden door wedge?

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Hi Nick! Giving this a go now - it’s a really good idea, it works well on about 40% of the floor pieces.

The main issue we are experiencing is that the some of the floors the are being hammered flexing too much when installing; they absorbs all the energy from the hammer+wedge combo away from the bowtie.

Hi there Lachlan,

Great to hear that you tried the solution! I will try to assemble this setup in about a few weeks, but until then maybe a possible solution could be to drive screws into the bowties and try hammering the screws on the head? Don’t really know if the screws will damage the bowties or not.

How much floor blocks did you assemble in the situation photographed above? On which positions is there flex exactly?