Replacing Piece Of Wood Floor

He cut out a small portion of my floor in such a way that if i wanted to put the piece back no one would ever ever know it had been removed.

Replacing piece of wood floor. I wanted to try. Measure the thickness of the current hardwood. Pick the board you want to remove. Use a scrap piece of wood to protect the strip s surface while tapping it into place.

Video is brought to you by www rgnflooring co uk and www ukflooringsu. Pry up a loose board in the floor so you can measure the thickness of the wooden plank. Tongue and groove flooring uses a system of interlocking edges tongues and grooves to stay in place with few nails. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to this old house.

Nail the board with 2 inch long ring shank flooring nails and drive the heads just below the surface with a nail set. How to replace sections of a tongue groove hardwood floor. Hardwood flooring makes a welcome addition to any home but it can be daunting to deal with once it s time to remove or replace it. We had professional teppanyaki chefs prepare food on our hardwood floor and take a few whacks at it with machetes and axes just so we can show you how to repair it.

Stripping hardwood flooring the wrong way can cost you hours of backbreaking. The only option to repair hardwood floors at this point is to cut out the stained floorboards and install new ones. Hardwood thickness will usually be between 5 inches 1 3 cm and 1 inch 2 5 cm but it s important to. My floor refinisher pulled up a small piece of my hardwood oak flooring while he was here assessing what my flooring options were.

Matching the finish of the new strip to the existing flooring may be difficult but give it a shot before you refinish the entire floor. How to remove hardwood floor. How to touch up wood floors get step by step instructions for removing scratches and scuffs from hardwood flooring. We replaced a couple of boards from a standard 3 4 in thick x 2 1 4 in wide oak strip floor using a drill circular saw and sharp chisel.

You need to know the wood thickness before you can start sawing into the floor to prevent your circular saw from damaging the subflooring underneath. A short film which shows you how to repair a damaged plank s within a real wood floor. Read on to see how one expert weighed his options and made the right move. Deciding whether to refinish or replace the wood floor in your home.

Cutting in a perfect fit patch with this old house general contractor tom silva.