Hi all

In the next month or so I am going to lift the foor boards in the lounge and
straighten the edges and then re-lay them.

My question is this would you do it any other way?

I'm planning to take each floorboard Screw a straight edge on to the back of
the floorboard and then run a router up against the straight edge to give me
a nice edge. Then working from the other side of the straight edge I will
straighten up the other edge.

This will enable me to screw the straight edge onto the board whilst working
on it and when it's removed the holes will be on the underside of the board.

Any suggestions on making sure that the following board is the same width
would be welcome. I'm currently planning to measure and use the straight
edge technique on all boards. Is there a better way?

Here's a link to a picture for you to see the type of problem I have.

http://www.songcity.co.uk/MyPictures/Floorboards1.jpg The largest part of
the gap is about 1 inch

Many thanks for any replys.

Martin

Do you have a table saw? After you straighten one edge, you can rip
all the boards to equal width on the TS.

Not at the moment, but I'm prepared to buy one if I need to.

Cheers

Martin

"Josh" wrote in message
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Do you have a table saw? After you straighten one edge, you can rip
all the boards to equal width on the TS.

Josh wrote:
Do you have a table saw? After you straighten one edge, you can rip
all the boards to equal width on the TS.

Wouldn't you have to mill all the T&G after that?

Martin Noakes wrote:
Hi all

In the next month or so I am going to lift the foor boards in the
lounge and straighten the edges and then re-lay them.

My question is this would you do it any other way?

I'm planning to take each floorboard Screw a straight edge on to the
back of the floorboard and then run a router up against the straight
edge to give me a nice edge. Then working from the other side of the
straight edge I will straighten up the other edge.

This will enable me to screw the straight edge onto the board whilst
working on it and when it's removed the holes will be on the
underside of the board.

Any suggestions on making sure that the following board is the same
width would be welcome. I'm currently planning to measure and use the
straight edge technique on all boards. Is there a better way?

Any tool that will index one side from the other would work. That
includes table saws, planers, drum sanders, etc. However, you would
either have to do all boards at one time or set up the tool and not
change it until all were done if you were doing a few at a time.

You could also do it with a hand router with a bearing bit and a
template of the desired width.

Keep in mind that commercial, solid wood floor boards do *NOT* touch
adjacent boards except for a small area at the tops; i.e., the edges are
not perpendicular to the faces.


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Fantastic tips

thank you for that

Martin

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Martin Noakes wrote:
Hi all

In the next month or so I am going to lift the foor boards in the
lounge and straighten the edges and then re-lay them.

My question is this would you do it any other way?

I'm planning to take each floorboard Screw a straight edge on to the
back of the floorboard and then run a router up against the straight
edge to give me a nice edge. Then working from the other side of the
straight edge I will straighten up the other edge.

This will enable me to screw the straight edge onto the board whilst
working on it and when it's removed the holes will be on the
underside of the board.

Any suggestions on making sure that the following board is the same
width would be welcome. I'm currently planning to measure and use the
straight edge technique on all boards. Is there a better way?

Any tool that will index one side from the other would work. That
includes table saws, planers, drum sanders, etc. However, you would
either have to do all boards at one time or set up the tool and not
change it until all were done if you were doing a few at a time.

You could also do it with a hand router with a bearing bit and a
template of the desired width.

Keep in mind that commercial, solid wood floor boards do *NOT* touch
adjacent boards except for a small area at the tops; i.e., the edges are
not perpendicular to the faces.


--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

"dadiOH" wrote in message
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Keep in mind that commercial, solid wood floor boards do *NOT* touch
adjacent boards except for a small area at the tops; i.e., the edges are
not perpendicular to the faces.



Why is that?

"Locutus" writes:

"dadiOH" wrote in message
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Keep in mind that commercial, solid wood floor boards do *NOT* touch
adjacent boards except for a small area at the tops; i.e., the edges are
not perpendicular to the faces.



Why is that?

To cope with expansion of the board if they get more humid.

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