On Nov 19, 3:11*pm, jamesgangnc wrote:


The only way to know if you can sand that out would be to get a belt
sander and try.

It is possible to lift sections of floor. *That is tongue and groove
floor. *Each strip has a tongue that goes into a groove on the side of
the adjacent piece. *It's a real pain. *A lot of installers will just
lift the floor all the way from the end. *It's possible to saw out
sections if you are good but you need to be good.

Umm...

You don't need to be _that_ good to cut out a damaged plank
from a wood floor, you just have to realize that the saw can only
do some of the work and the rest has to be done with hand tools
which have to be sharp and properly maintained...

Installing a replacement plank is just a matter of trimming off
the lower portion of the groove and either using glue or face
nailing the replacement plank down...

Replacing the wood on a wood floor is often the easiest part
of the repair task, unless you have a leftover can of the exact
floor stain you used BLENDING a patch in to have it color
match is often the art that people repairing floors are lacking
in compared to the relatively simple science of basic
carpentry skills...

~~ Evan