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- From: worth@acuson.com (Douglas Worth)
- Subject: Hardwood Floor repair
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.215016.11711@acuson.com>
- Keywords: hardwood floors
- Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
- Distribution: rec
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:50:16 GMT
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- This past weekend we finally took the Christmas tree out and
- noticed a lump in the floor. Furthur investigation by pulling
- the carpet back showed that the garbage bag under the tree stand
- did not keep some spilled water out of the carpet. We decided that
- since it would take a while for the floor too dry that we might as
- well pull up all of the carpet and enjoy the hardwood.
-
- Here are my questions:
-
- - One of the previous owners decided that they did not like part of
- the hardwood floor and glued linoleum (sp?) down to it. What would be
- the best way to get it off?
-
- - In the water damaged part one of the boards is split length wise
- for about 16". We put as much weight (I knew there was a reason to
- keep all of those text books) as we could on the other parts. We are
- expecting to replace some of the boards in this section. The floor is
- 2" oak strip and I do not think that it is tongue and groove because
- there is lots of nails in it. Is it possible to do patch work like this
- or are we crazy? After we repair the damaged section we are planning to
- sand and refinish it. My boss recently did his so I do have someone with
- some experience who can help.
-
- Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
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- Doug Worth -- worth@acuson.com (worth@sono.sun.com, ..!sun!sono!worth)
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