Cut Out Bad Tongue And Groove Flooring

How to lift a floor board.

Cut out bad tongue and groove flooring.

Rough cut to tongue and groove. Steve and hannah are making tongue and groove flooring for a bathroom remodel. Wide plank floor diy. Removing damaged planks takes a bit of effort but new tongue and groove flooring installs in a snap.

Lets finish the basement. Part 2 move the fence closer to the blade so the next cut will be in line with the tongue s lower face. Pick the board you want to remove. The finished pieces will have matching tongues and grooves and widths to match the old flooring.

How to safely lift tongue groove flooring. Tongue and groove flooring solves the pesky problems such as shrinking warping and working loose commonly experienced by nailing planks to floor joists. 1 set the circular saw to cut 1 16 inch deeper than the depth of the damaged floorboards. Wood floors were nailed to the baseboards resulting in uneven rugged and somewhat unflattering floors.

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. As winter progressed in michigan and outside projects turned to inside projects a massive idea came to fruition. I wanted to try. My floor refinisher pulled up a small piece of my hardwood oak flooring while he was here assessing what my flooring options were.

Tongue and groove removed the need for each board to be nailed down instead connecting all the planks. Which has been slowly transformed from a moist rock 100 year old but 8 feet tall basement into a water proofe. Tongue and groove flooring replaced the haphazard method of nailing in wood floors. The birch was felled on the property and milled on a woodmizer lt15 sawm.

After a test cut run each board in the same direction over the blade again as shown.