How To Replace Hardwood Floor Strips

Use a wood chisel to split the damaged board into two pieces.

How to replace hardwood floor strips. Use a 1 2 or 3 8 inch diameter spade bit and power drill to drill holes along the marks. Once you remove the middle strip of the wood pull the two remaining strips of wood away from their. Tap the end of it with a rubber mallet to drive the bar more deeply into the cut.

Using the chisel and a pry bar remove the strip of flooring between the relief cuts and pull the tongue and groove edges of the old flooring where they interlock with the adjacent flooring courses. Pry up the the first hardwood plank using a pry bar and mallet. Using the circular saw carefully cut along the seams of the plank keeping inside the edge of the plank by a half inch.

Make sure you are cutting all the way through the plank. Pour the stripping solution on the floor area and smudge it across it evenly with the brush. 2 drill series of 5 8 inch diameter holes down center of damaged floorboard.

Use a carpenter s square to mark a perpendicular line across the section of the board to be removed. Next cut across the center of the plank connecting the two previous cuts to form an h. Use the hammer and chisel to remove the narrow strips of wood between the holes you drilled.

Wedge the pry bar into 1 of the cuts. Wait for around 30 minutes this is an approximate time that depends on the type of coating your floor has and on the. 4 chisel out center section of floorboard between the holes.

Completely clean out the opened section of flooring. Here s how you should do it. 3 use chisel to cut through floorboard along the scored line.