Adding Hardwood flooring into adjacent rooms?
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you'll need to use a thin saw blade (actually, a few, you're going to tear up a few) to cut away the shorter boards you wish to enter your stagger into. Remember to keep your kerf INSIDE the board you are cutting out. Or cut about 1/8 inside the joint. Remove the board, and discard it. Remove all or the tongue and use a countersink to flush the cut nails used to set the original boards. Use a table saw or circular if you don't have a table saw, to remove MOST of the tongue for the new boards to sit into the old set. Take your time. You may also have to remove the lower groove, but if you've countersunk your old nails flush to the floor, you should be okay with the groove intact. Use a piece of the discarded flooring as a block between the hammer and the new flooring, and gently tap into place FROM THE END, threading it into the existing floor. It's a faily ambitious project for a do it yourselfer, but if you take your time, and be patient, it will turn out beautifully.
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It all depends on the condition of the joints. If they are old, you may need to replace them anyways. Otherwise, the joints should be fine. You may need to put some connectors between them though, to add more support.
It all depends on the condition of the joints. If they are old, you may need to replace them anyways. Otherwise, the joints should be fine. You may need to put some connectors between them though, to add more support.
Our installer ran one piece of hard wood (or you could use two if they are thin) as a threshold for the room. The piece is perpendicular to the direction that floor is running. Then ran the rest of the room in the proper direction. It looked good.