Replacing A Piece Of Hardwood Flooring

However if a plank gets damaged it detracts from the beauty of the flooring.

Replacing a piece of hardwood flooring. How to video on replacing a damaged board in a prefinished hardwood floor. Pick the board you want to remove. My floor refinisher pulled up a small piece of my hardwood oak flooring while he was here assessing what my flooring options were. And sanding only creates a depression in the floor that s more noticeable than the stain.

Measure the thickness of the current hardwood. 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. You can also fix buckled areas of flooring and avoid having to completely refinish your floors. Safety glasses and hearing protection should be worn during this procedure.

Laminate floor planks look beautiful and add elegance to a home. Pry up a loose board in the floor so you can measure the thickness of the wooden plank. Saw off the bottom groove on the new flooring plank. 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.

He goes step by step through the process of removing the board and then how to. Prepare the new plank. The only option to repair hardwood floors at this point is to cut out the stained floorboards and install new ones. Do you call in a professional and pay tons of money to replace the plank.

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. Most floors use a tongue and groove design. 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. Hardwood thickness will usually be between 5 inches 1 3 cm and 1 inch 2 5 cm but it s important to.

In this video jason shows us how to replace a damaged hardwood floor board. I wanted to try. Rip cut and remove the bottom groove from the replacement flooring piece using a table saw circular saw. 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.

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. Remove the bottom of the groove from the new floor plank. How to replace sections of a tongue groove hardwood floor.