Step-by-step hardwood flooring repair. Repairing damaged boards in hardwood flooring has to take into consideration the way tongue-and-groove hardwood boards are interlocked and blind nailed. This drawing from Chapter 10 of “Restoring Your Historic House, The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners” illustrates how this is done.
1. shows a damaged board in a blind nailed tongue-and-groove hardwood floor. After removing the broken board and its nails, a new matching board is cut to length and the wood below the groove is cut off (2). The new board is then tipped into place, forcing the tongue into the adjacent groove, and the opposite edge is pressed into place (3). A bit of tapping and patience may be required. Once the new board is in place, it is nailed to the joists through the face with 16-penny finish nails, sunk below the surface and filled with color-matched wood filler (4).
This is one of the more than 2000 photos and drawings used to clearly illustrate the text in “Restoring Your Historic House, The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners.”
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