Replacing Original Hardwood Floors

While most people choose hardwood engineered hardwood carpet tile or laminate flooring for their homes some homeowners opt for bamboo linoleum vinyl or concrete.

Replacing original hardwood floors.

Installing pre finished hardwood flooring. You can change the color closely match and replace warped stained or termite ingested planks silence squeaky boards and fill gaps or patch knots. A quality hardwood floor can be sanded down and refinished at least six times and up to ten times before you need to replace it. And sanding only creates a depression in the floor that s more noticeable than the stain.

Hardwood floors take a lot of abuse and over time they can become stained warped chipped or just dull. Most floors use a tongue and groove design. Prepare the new plank. Hardwood thickness will usually be between 5 inches 1 3 cm and 1 inch 2 5 cm but it s important to.

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. Homeowners who have old floors should not expect them to look like brand new floors according to sprigg lynn of universal. Measure the thickness of the current hardwood. Saw off the bottom groove on the new flooring plank.

Pry up a loose board in the floor so you can measure the thickness of the wooden plank. The only option to repair hardwood floors at this point is to cut out the stained floorboards and install new ones. 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. When your hardwood floor begins to appear worn.

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 properly maintained can last for decades but it may require more maintenance than other flooring options. Here s a look at ways to determine whether you need a simple repair a full refinishing job or to simply start fresh with a new hardwood floor installation. Repairing and refinishing old hardwood floors can be a labor intensive and complex process.

You can also fix buckled areas of flooring and avoid having to completely refinish your floors. Rip cut and remove the bottom groove from the replacement flooring piece using a table saw circular saw or sharp chisel and utility knife. Set the saw fence to cut 5 16 in.