Cut Out Bad Tongue And Groove Flooring
Hello folks i was wondering if i could get some tips from you all for cutting up tongue and groove chipboard flooring because today when the joiner took up a section off the floor there was pipes very very close to the tops of the joists and right underneath the flooring.
Cut out bad tongue and groove flooring. How to lift a floor board. Tongue and groove flooring replaced the haphazard method of nailing in wood floors. The finished pieces will have matching tongues and grooves and widths to match the old flooring. Pulling up tongue and groove flooring can be tedious and time consuming more so when the boards are glued but it s not a test of carpentry skills.
Pick the board you want to remove. How to safely lift tongue groove flooring. Lets finish the basement. Which has been slowly transformed from a moist rock 100 year old but 8 feet tall basement into a water proofe.
My floor refinisher pulled up a small piece of my hardwood oak flooring while he was here assessing what my flooring options were. As winter progressed in michigan and outside projects turned to inside projects a massive idea came to fruition. 1 set the circular saw to cut 1 16 inch deeper than the depth of the damaged floorboards. Steve and hannah are making tongue and groove flooring for a bathroom remodel.
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. 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. Part 2 move the fence closer to the blade so the next cut will be in line with the tongue s lower face.
Removing damaged planks takes a bit of effort but new tongue and groove flooring installs in a snap. Tongue and groove removed the need for each board to be nailed down instead connecting all the planks. Wide plank floor diy. Tongue and groove flooring solves the pesky problems such as shrinking warping and working loose commonly experienced by nailing planks to floor joists.
Wood floors were nailed to the baseboards resulting in uneven rugged and somewhat unflattering floors.