Replacing a Section of Wood Floor
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1. Cut holes across the center and ends with a spade bit.
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2. Split board with chisel as shown. |
3. Place pry board into split and remove the damaged board. |
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4. Remove remaining nails. |
5. Place grove of new board into tongue of adjacent boards.
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For the last board, turn it over and cut or chisel lower part of groove
out. See above how boards will interlock Blind-nail through the tongue
for all but the last board. |
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7. Place glue on the subfloor, half-grove, and tongue. Tap board into place with a hammer and block as shown above.. |