I just purchased a 1920’s home and under the carpet in the living room there is decent looking oak covering 80% of the floor. The other 20% is made up of a few sheets of particle board flush with the top of the oak. The real estate agent said there might have been some old damage to the floor with a small fire or something and it looks like they just sawed the old floor out about 10 feet from the end of the room. Structurally everything appears to in good shape and the current floor looks level and solid.
I was hoping to try to remove the particle board and cut back the existing boards at random points and try to slide in new oak boards. I compared the existing boards to a sample piece and they are the same width. Is this an impossible job? Is there a good way to cut out the floor boards so the cut ends are flat with out damaging the neighboring boards. I remember reading somewhere to drill holes and the use a jig saw to finish the cuts. Would I be better off covering the whole room with new wood?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
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If you do a search here you might get lucky and find some info about patching in floors. You won't match up color or finish so the whole thing will have to be refinished, maybe just screened if you're lucky. See if you can find luvditchburns posts on floors and study them. He has made several posts with pics describing the process. If you're in NW Pa. you could just hire him.
Here's a patched in spot I did when I removed a closet wall. I used a Fein mulitimaster with an H blade to make some square cuts for board removal. On some, I just drove the old pc out of its spot, first driving the nails through the tonge to free them up. I salvaged out some wood where the shower base was going to go and ended up with enough for the patches. Best of luck.
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