Questions tagged [hardwood-floor]
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Options to Repair Wooden Floors? [duplicate]
I rent an apartment and work from home. Unfortunately, I didn’t consider the damage the chair would cause to the floor until it was too late. Are there any options for repairing this myself? I’m ...
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How do I mask off stained wood without damaging the finish?
I'm trying to paint a surface that meets up at a slight angle with some stained wood edging that is part of my wood floor.
I started covering up the wood with blue painter's tape, and noticed when ...
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How to prepare 1/2" subfloor for hardwood flooring?
My house had carpets over 5/8 particle board that was sitting on top of 1/2 plywood subfloors. I've removed the particle board and was thinking of installing 5/8 OSB before putting down 3/4 hardwood ...
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How should we proceed with hardwood floor sanding when getting uneven results?
We started sanding the old wood floor with a 60-grit drum sander. We did sand twice with 60 grit, but we can see uneven sanded floors.
Should we sand with 36-grit or redo with 60-grit again?
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Please help me identify this 1927 flooring found under carpet? I need to buy 30 feet for repairs
I’d love to learn how to identify type and color so I can buy some matching repair pieces
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How to clean/maintain shellacked hardwood floors?
I'm fairly sure* I have shellacked hardwood floors. It has been surprisingly hard to figure out how to best clean/maintain them. For cleaning, the main suggestions I've seen are "use a solvent-...
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How to transition between manufactured hardwood and vinyl rolled flooring?
We had the tan colored hardwood installed recently and the contractor put in these perpendicular pieces of wood wherever the floor butted up against another flooring type. There used to be one of ...
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1890s Victorian home: is the wood flooring worth refinishing? [closed]
Our house was built in the 1890s and has the original wood floors in it. These floors were covered with subflooring when we moved in. The previous owner jacked the house up and redid the foundation ...
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Is our subfloor dry enough to lay hardwood flooring on?
we live in a coastal town in the NE and we are getting ready to lay hardwood floors. Some rooms, the lauan was not in good shape due to pulling up prior floor, so we pulled that up, but other rooms, ...
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How to fix long scratch in wood floor?
How do I hide a scratch in my hardwood floor? I made the mistake of dragging a piece of furniture and got ahead of myself, and didn’t see that I left a long scratch. I tried to fix a small section ...
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Covering screw holes in hardwood floor
I have an old hardwood floor that is squeaky. I'm using this product: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6YDMGGK
to drill 1/8 inch holes in the floor, then driving the special screws in, that break a little ...
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Laying Hardwood in an Octagonal Pattern [closed]
Edit: I do not understand how the below is 'opinion-based' more than any other construction question. I am literally asking if carpenters here have advice on how to do a complex flooring pattern. I ...
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Dryer or wetter engineered hardwood planks for install into intermittently conditioned space?
Engineered hardwood planks: 3/4 thick T&G white oak, 8" wide, 5mm thick top wood layer.
Subfloor is out of the equation: we're using a 100% moisture barrier underneath.
So our seasonal ...
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How can I remove spot stains from this hardwood floor?
I recently found hardwood flooring under some carpet, and I want to keep it. The problem is it has some dark spot in it that I don't like. Is sanding the only way to remove these spots?
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Can the water stains in this hardwood floor be sanded out?
Do you think sanding will be able to take out these water marks, or do the boards need to be replaced? The water damage is old (prior to the previous owner, so at least 12 years) and the floor is ...
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How to add 3/4" hardwood flooring to stairs that have stair nose?
I am working on the final step of finishing my kitchen. We replaced the tile with 3/4" maple hardwood floor. I now need to floor the landing and two stairs between.
I am not sure the best way to ...
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How to save 100+ Heart of pine floor with no subfloor
We have “Heart of pine” wood floors from 1907 (original to the home) and it’s all throughout the home but previous owners put either carpet over it in most the rooms except the living room, hallway ...
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Weird odor in my living room and kitchen [closed]
Ok y’all turning to you for some help.
I’ve just moved into a new place and there is a horrible horrible smell in the living room and the kitchen. It’s been days and it’s not going away...
So far I’ve ...
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Shoddy bamboo board flooring installation - will stopgap repair cause problems later? [closed]
I posted about 4 months ago on the subreddit about my experience with a con-flooring installer who installed about 300 sqft of bamboo flooring in my living/dining room. I was naive and didn't properly ...
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How to ensure seamless transition of hardwood flooring [duplicate]
I'm getting ready to install ~900 sqft of unfinished Brazilian walnut. The planks are 5" wide and 3/4" thick. Per the manufacturer guide, I plan on doing a 3/4" expansion gap on the ...
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What's the maximum floor finish thickness or number of coats of polyurethane varnish?
I read of people using 2 coats of oil based or 5 coats water based.
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Can I lay Engineered Wood floor over curved subfloor?
Is it ok to lay engineered wood floor over subfloor with such a dip in the middle? The existing floor is pretty even from board to board, but it does dip uniformly in the middle of the room. Would it ...
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How to clean, sand and repair worn wood flooring without sanding the entire room?
The floor is made up of solid oak not engineered.
It was factory coated from new. The wear has been caused by an office chair. I would like to avoid if possible a whole room sanding as this would be ...
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Fixing up beat up wide plank floors
My farmhouse is about 120 years old. There is a lot of carpet upstairs, which I would love to remove. I have pets and allergies and I just think carpets are gross.
I can understand why someone decided ...
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How can I tell if this is hardwood or subfloor?
Photo 1: Photo of the carpet, pad, and wood taken from lifting up the carpet from the vent cover.
Photo 2: Photo of an unfinished closet that leads to the crawlspace.
Would a vent ever be installed on ...
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What caused, and how to fix, wooden stair tread stains?
We recently put in brand new, prefinished red oak stair treads. Yesterday we had a steam cleaner come clean the upstairs carpet, and they ran several hoses from their van outside all the way up the ...
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Hiding scratches in engineered hardwood floors [duplicate]
Similar to this question but I am not trying to repair, only hide, scratches:
How can I repair scratches in engineered hardwood floors?
I have some builder-grade engineered hardwood floors that have ...
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What do the markings in the photos say about the flooring and it's quality? [closed]
What do the markings in the photos say about the flooring and it's quality?
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2nd subfloor layer for hardwood
I have a 3/4 inch tongue and groove plywood subfloor. I am installing hardwood flooring and the joists run the long length of the room. My hardwood manufacture guide says to run the hardwood flooring ...
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How to neatly cover gaps in threshold plate between 2 rooms
We have an internal kitchen connected to our hallway with a plate joining the 2:
I’d like to tidy up where the plate meets the floor. This was previously a narrow strip of wood, but it was falling ...
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Should we accept? Split wood/too dark inlay in floor installation
we recently had our floors refinished/installed. In our kitchen, the old linoleum was ripped out, and we had hardwood floors installed to match the rest of the house. The house has an accent inlay in ...
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Process to Apply Non Slip Coating to Wood Flooring
I hardwood floors in my house and we have a new puppy. No matter how short her claws and paw hair is she slips like Scooby Do. We need a non slip coating to prevent this.
I found a product that looks ...
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Replacing individual oak strips in a pre-engineered wood flooring due to water damage
My kitchen floor is Tarkett pre-engineered, pre-finished Long Strip oak (installed in 1986). It was refinished professionally in 2017. Recently it was damaged by water, resulting in multiple cupped ...
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1/4 plywood between existing floorboards and new hardwood?
I live in a 115 year old house that has existing 3/4 tongue and groove floorboards. While they seem sturdy, they are super ugly and have worn very unevenly, and unfortunately sanding won’t be a ...
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Luxury Vinyl Flooring Crack
I just noticed this crack on our luxury vinyl floors. The top part of the crack has overlapped the bottom piece and it can not be pushed down to create a flat surface.
The only thing I can find online ...
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Patching Hardwood and Removing Old flooring material
Found the original hardwood floors under some old tile I was tearing up for a kitchen renovation, and wondering how best to patch and refinish them. There's construction glue they used under the ...
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Hardwood Floor Repair - Sag and Gaps
Just bought a new home with old - possibly original - hardwood, from '52. There's a relative bulge running down the middle of the house (or it could be sagging on either side) corresponding to the ...
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Large gap between hardwood floor and wall
Recent home purchase with new hardwood floors throughout. The kitchen used to be vinyl sheet flooring which was also replaced with solid hardwood.
Problem is, the contractor installed baseboard and ...
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What are the steps to refinish hardwood floors? [closed]
I'm looking to have some hardwood floors refinished. Its one large room and a tiny hallway under 250 sq ft so I could get all the sanding done in 1 rental day.
What are the usual steps? Off the top of ...
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Self leveling floor concrete vs concrete board
I have glue down solid oak hardwood floors throughout my whole house. In my guest bathroom there is a water leak somewhere that is affecting the wood floors that room and in the adjacent rooms. While ...
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How to cover screw holes on a plywood floor [closed]
This is the floor in a space where every 1/16" of vertical space counts, so we decided to use the plywood covering the joists as the floor. It looks OK, but the seams and the screw holes are ...
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Lift laminate flooring to fix squeaky floorboard
I have laminate flooring installed on a mezzanine but the floorboards underneath are probably poorly nailed down and squeaking in some places. I was thinking to lift the laminate, fix them up with ...
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How can I remove a urine stain from varnished hardwood flooring? [duplicate]
I'm considering chemically stripping then applying a poly to my hardwood floor. The current finish is varnish I believe, it's circa 1937. My concern is that I have a dog urine stain (see picture).
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How to support hardwood floors with no existing subfloors to prevent squeaking in 100-year-old home
This is a follow up question to this old thread: Replacing hardwood floor in 100 year old house with no subfloor The house has hardwood floors installed directly on floor joists and the floors are ...
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Will oxygen bleach powder damage the varnish on hardwood floor?
Somebody recommended using oxygen bleach powder (e.g., Vanish) to get rid of stubborn stains on my hardwood floor. I’m a bit wary of this because it is after all a reactive chemical and an abrasive. ...
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Would wood markers hide this hardwood floor worn area?
I was considering using wood markers to hide those worn (scraped) areas on my hardwood floor. Would that work, or what would be other, better ways?
UPDATE (2/26): Wood stain worked very well. Great ...
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Chipped floor planks keep snagging my socks
In my home office, there are parts of the floor that seem to be chipped off.
Their pointy edges keep catching my socks when I walk by.
How would you solve this problem?
Ideally the solution would not ...
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Removing water from oak hardwood floors
I was out of town for 5 days and during that time my kitchen faucet spontaneously developed a slow leak. Upon returning home there was a 7 foot by 7 foot puddle of water in the kitchen -- probably sat ...
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How to stain bleached wood to match its original natural colour (and then finish)?
Similar to this post, so apologies if it fully overlaps and I'm just misunderstanding.
I used sanding & oxalic acid to lighten / bleach out a dark cat urine stain from our 1952 hardwood floors (...
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We have mold under carpeting, what should I do?
About one week ago, I found what looked like mold under a carpet. The floor is wooden. The carpet is not wall to wall. All the other rooms do not have carpet or have wall to wall carpeting.
I am ...
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