Aaron Fude wrote:
On Oct 22, 2:01 pm, "Not@home" wrote:
My home was build in about 1925, and at that time is was common practice
to use good hardwood in the "public" areas (first floor living and
dining room and stairways, for example) but to use either pine or
douglas fir in the "family" areas (upstairs bedrooms and attic). The
douglas fir available at that time was a better grade wood than what you
see today, unless you can find a source of old growth fir.

Getting a good match with new wood will be difficult. If there are any
closets with matching wood, you could use that wood and replace it with
new wood in the closet, since no-one will notice a closet. Otherwise,
you might have to find an inconspicuous area and scavage the wood from
there. If you have the time and talent, you could build some sort of
pattern or border into the floor with new wood and use the old for your
repair.

Hi,

Thanks for the recommendations. To clarify, yes the floor was sanded
and poly-ed.

I was told by my floor refinisher that these floors would be to
brittle to take out of a closet and move to the area of interest.
Also, according to him, there's virtually no way of getting them out
of the floor without busting circular saw blades on the nails.
Finally, he's claim is that b/c it's tongue in groove, that these
boards are "used-up" and cannot be re-used.

What do you guys think?

Thanks again,

Aaron



I bought a house with oak flooring that
had been put down in the '40s. Various
renovations had been done which had seen
the flooring removed and replaced with
plywood in places.

I had a flooring guy come in and
refinish the wood, and asked him to fix
the plywood areas. He pulled up some of
the old stuff, added new and replaced
everything to the point that I couldn't
tell where the plywood had been.

In pulling up the old, he sacrificed a
few planks starting out but was able to
replace them with stock - something i
don't think you can do because of the age.

However, my point is that t/g flooring
can be pulled up and put down elsewhere.
You lose a bit, but are able to match
what's there. I'd go for the closets as
others have suggested.


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