Tongue and groove flooring solves the pesky problems such as shrinking warping and working loose commonly experienced by nailing planks to floor joists.
Cut out bad tongue and groove flooring.
Tongue and groove flooring replaced the haphazard method of nailing in wood floors.
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.
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.
Wood floors were nailed to the baseboards resulting in uneven rugged and somewhat unflattering floors.
After a test cut run each board in the same direction over the blade again as shown.
Tongue and groove removed the need for each board to be nailed down instead connecting all the planks.
As winter progressed in michigan and outside projects turned to inside projects a massive idea came to fruition.
Rough cut to tongue and groove.
My floor refinisher pulled up a small piece of my hardwood oak flooring while he was here assessing what my flooring options were.
1 set the circular saw to cut 1 16 inch deeper than the depth of the damaged floorboards.
Which has been slowly transformed from a moist rock 100 year old but 8 feet tall basement into a water proofe.
The birch was felled on the property and milled on a woodmizer lt15 sawm.
How to safely lift tongue groove flooring.
Removing damaged planks takes a bit of effort but new tongue and groove flooring installs in a snap.
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.
Lets finish the basement.
Clean out the groove with a narrow chisel held bevel down.
Wide plank floor diy.
Part 2 move the fence closer to the blade so the next cut will be in line with the tongue s lower face.
How to lift a floor board.
The finished pieces will have matching tongues and grooves and widths to match the old flooring.