Replacing A Piece Of Hardwood Flooring

Tongue and groove flooring uses a system of interlocking edges tongues and grooves to stay in place with few nails.

Replacing a piece of hardwood flooring.

Safety glasses and hearing protection should be worn during this procedure. Prepare the new plank. Rip cut and remove the bottom groove from the replacement flooring piece using a table saw circular saw. And sanding only creates a depression in the floor that s more noticeable than the stain.

Saw off the bottom groove on the new flooring plank. Measure the thickness of the current hardwood. He goes step by step through the process of removing the board and then how to. Pick the board you want to remove.

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. Laminate floor planks look beautiful and add elegance to a home. I wanted to try. 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.

If your hardwood floor is in generally fine shape with only a damaged spot or two it is easy and economical to make small repairs by replacing a strip or plank of flooring. The only option to repair hardwood floors at this point is to cut out the stained floorboards and install new ones. How to lift a floor board. You can also fix buckled areas of flooring and avoid having to completely refinish your floors.

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. How to replace sections of a tongue groove hardwood floor. In this video jason shows us how to replace a damaged hardwood floor board. Stripping hardwood flooring the wrong way can cost you hours of backbreaking work leave you with an enormous mess and even cause permanent damage to your subflooring.

Remove the bottom of the groove from the new floor plank. Pry up a loose board in the floor so you can measure the thickness of the wooden plank. However if a plank gets damaged it detracts from the beauty of the flooring. How to video on replacing a damaged board in a prefinished 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. My floor refinisher pulled up a small piece of my hardwood oak flooring while he was here assessing what my flooring options were. Do you call in a professional and pay tons of money to replace the plank.