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- From: saskaw@thelma.unx.sas.com (Kathryn Wisniewski)
- Subject: Re: Hardwood Floor repair
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:35:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.215016.11711@acuson.com>, worth@acuson.com (Douglas Worth) writes:
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- >- In the water damaged part one of the boards is split length wise
- >for about 16". We put as much weight (I knew there was a reason to
- >keep all of those text books) as we could on the other parts. We are
- >expecting to replace some of the boards in this section. The floor is
- >2" oak strip and I do not think that it is tongue and groove because
- >there is lots of nails in it. Is it possible to do patch work like this
- >or are we crazy? After we repair the damaged section we are planning to
- >sand and refinish it. My boss recently did his so I do have someone with
- >some experience who can help.
- >
- Here's a great tip I got out of a do-it-yourself magazine. If you need
- to replace boards in a wooden floor, see if you can get it from one of
- the closets in your home. We did this when we made a repair like this
- and it worked great. The advantages are that it allows you to get an
- exact match with the existing floor and it doesn't cost anything. We
- replaced the closet floor with some inexpensive cedar paneling and
- turned it into a 'feature' of the closet (Look! a cedar floor in the
- closet to keep away moths). The repaired section of the floor looked
- great after we sanded and refinished the entire room.
-