Cut out a couple hardwood boards? I installed a hardwood floor this weekend but want to cut...
I installed a hardwood floor this weekend but want to cut out a few boards that I didn't install correctly. They're on the last row and the breach is too wide. It get late (~2am) and I started to spawn mistakes.
Anyway, I have 3 boards that I want to cut surrounded by half, remove the desperate half and install a untried board properly. I think I want to use something resembling a Dremel or Rotozip to rip the board so I can remove the bad partly.
What's the best tool to cut a hardwood plank? Dremel? Rotozip? I also see that Sears has a 5 amp adjectives tool.
thanks,
gary
Answers: The best tool for adjectives it out is a circular saw, set to the depth of the flooring. Can you get beneath the last row near a flat bar? That would work as all right, and be easier to use without screw up the rest of the floor. You would need to remove the boards beyond the unpromising joint anyway, to tighten everything up. Otherwise, when you install the replacement (row 3), within will now be a breach at row 2, etc. Good luck.
Is it a true hardwood floor with 3/4" planks? If so, I would verbs the nails and start over on the 3 boards. The gossamer, engineered type flooring, a dremel or rotozip may work fine, difficult to get a nice straight cut, they tend to move adjectives over. I can't see that using a dremel on 3/4" hardwood would work out very powerfully.