How to Fix Wooden Flooring
- 1). Lay one of your new floorboards on the floor. Set your circular saw on top of it, with the blade hanging off one edge. Set the depth of the blade to the thickness of the board.
- 2). Hold the saw over one of the damaged floorboards with the blade facing in the same direction as the length of the board. Pull back the blade guard and hold it back. Set the front edge of the blade plate to the surface (with the blade still off the surface). Engage the saw and slowly lower it into the wood.
- 3). Run the saw along the length of the board without cutting into the edge. Repeat the process to make several long cuts, running at different angles and crossing each other.
- 4). Dig out the pieces of cut wood from the center of the plank, using your hammer and chisel. Use the chisel to knock the edges of the boards inward, pulling apart the tongue-and-groove connections. Continue until the damaged board is completely out.
- 5). Lay a replacement board on a raised work surface. Cut off the bottom lip of the groove all along the length using a utility knife. Apply carpenter's glue inside the groove.
- 6). Place the replacement board into the space that you cut out of the floor, pressing the tongue side into the groove of the adjacent and setting the grooved side over the tongue of the piece on the opposite side.
- 7). Secure the replacement board by shooting in pairs of nails every six or eight inches along the length with your nailer. Repeat for each board that needs to be replaced.
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