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- From: kdk4166@usl.edu (Knierim Kathleen D)
- Subject: Re: hardwood floor repair
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.214628.7848@usl.edu>
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- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- References: <1993Jan21.215016.11711@acuson.com> <C1A178.G92@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1993Jan25.020700.5478@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:46:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.020700.5478@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r) writes:
- >
-
- discussion of replacing a tongue & groove floor board deleted....
-
- >The tongue & groove method locks one board to another to form a basically
- >solid mass. One board cannot bend without its neighbors also bending. Now,
- >if you remove the bottom piece of the groove in the new board, there's
- >nothing below the tongue in the old one next to it to keep it from moving
- >downwards - except the subfloor. If you don't have a subfloor, 3/4 inch
- >oak can bend as much as 1/8" in between 16" joists with a small man (me,
- >for example) on it. A heavy person can crack it. And, believe me, 1/8"
- >is enough to make you very nervous about stepping there.
- >
- >If you want to see how this feels, take a piece of 1xwhatever and lay it
- >across two 2xwhatevers and step on it.
- >
- >Anyway, it shouldn't be a problem. The only place I have seen flooring
- >put down without a subfloor is attic or dormer bedrooms.
-
- Don't know how common this is, but my house built in late 1940's has tongue &
- groove oak strip floors with no subfloor anywhere in the house. I appreciate
- seeing the comments quoted above - if I run across the need to replace a board
- I'll keep the flexing problem in mind!
-
- Now for another wood floor question: I've read repeatedly that refinishing a
- small area rather than a whole room doesn't work if the finish is polyurethane.
- What happens if one tries sanding and refinishing a small area? In the middle
- of my den there is an area with warped boards due to a leaking canteen sitting
- on the floor for a few hours :(. Is the only way to fix this to have the entire
- room sanded and refinished? It was already sanded once just before I moved in,
- and not having any subfloor I don't really want to sand more wood off the floor
- than necessary.
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