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I’d like to put oak parquet flooring in the dining room of my 1910 house. (The original flooring was removed long ago and replaced with plywood and icky carpeting.) Here’s my dilemma—I need to leave a gap on the outer perimeter of the floor to allow for expansion. I could live with leaving a gap between the new oak flooring and the existing baseboard and just cover the gap with quarter round molding but what do I do where the new oak flooring butts up against the door casing? (There are 3 doors in the room.) Is there any tool that would allow me to rout out the bottom of the baseboard and the door casings enough to slip the new flooring under there? Other ideas? Thanks for your help. |
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Since you probably don't want to buy an power undercut saw or the Fein Multimaster, look for a hand undercut saw. A japanese style pull saw would work too. Plenty of those at a good tool store. Maybe 20 bucks.
edit: and welcome to Breaktime. I know nothing of this tool place, but use it as an example. Best of luck.
http://www.tiletool.net/Undercut_Saws.asp
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Edited 12/30/2005 3:41 pm ET by calvin
Hey thanks Calvin. Any chance I could rent the power tools you mentioned? I get tired just thinking about doing all this with a handsaw.
Zappo
Yes you can. The jamb saws are available I'm sure. Maybe even a HD rental, don't know..........don't use them. A sawzall with a long metal cutting blade running on top of your parquet might do it too. The cleanest job, Fein multimaster but the blade is 30-40 bucks. Make sure the jamb saw is in fairly decent condition and the blade hasn't seen a pound of nails.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Very good advice. Thanks. I've been pondering this for longer than I care to admit. Happy New Year.
Calvin is so right, but a more available alternative might be a more common biscuit joiner. The carbide blade plunges out, and it'll undercut a door jamb like butter. I say more common, as in something that might be owned by a friend. Ask !
Greg
Thanks Greg,
Love the image of cutting like butter! I've considered buying a biscuit joiner anyway, so this may be my excuse!
And happy new year to you too.
One thing to ponder when you get into this job. As you work your way around the door area, and this is something you'll have to figure out yourself (hard to explain online) , is the predicament you'll have hiding some of those pcs in under the casing and jamb and still be able to get them in there. With the tongue/groove orientation on your parquet, you'll have to have those under the jamb/casing before you place the uncut ones just preceeding them (field tile). Then you'll pull them back into those uncut pcs................see what I mean, semi unexplainable. Over cut the jamb /casing (deep) so you have manueverability under there. And get this tool http://www.epinions.com/Red_Devil_Scrape_N_Pry_Bar_Shop_Tools
It'll come in handy pulling and prying. Check it out, cheap purchase.
Are you glueing this down?
edit: And, you'll need to undercut a bit of the base where it's adjacent to the casing, so you can stop that shoe right at the casing.
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Edited 12/30/2005 4:31 pm ET by calvin