Repairing Hardwood Floor Pieces

Like what hardwood professionals always say, dealing with wood floors does not end after a successful hardwood floor installation. In fact, it is only the beginning of your journey with this priceless floor. And even though hardwood floor pieces are very easy to maintain, refinishing and repair shall keep you preoccupied over time.

Speaking of repair, most homeowners think that hardwood floor repair is an easy do-it-yourself thing. However, if you will really know what is involved when repairing hardwood floor pieces, you will surely just leave it in the hands of professionals. Hardwood floor repair is a lot like hardwood floor installation --- it involves nitty gritty work that often frustrates first timers.

Repairing hardwood floors are difficult because of the shape of hardwood floor pieces. Full-size pieces have a thickness of 3/4 -inch with a tongue or a groove on each of the four side edges. The tongue fits into the corresponding groove on an adjacent piece of flooring. This means that you cannot just pry up a piece of flooring because they are interlocked with one another and you might end up pulling quite a number of hardwood floor pieces.

Professionals who offer hardwood floor installation and repair services use different techniques for removing a single floor board they typically start by carefully removing the center one-third or so of the damaged floorboard. This allows them to pull the remaining two hardwood floor pieces sideways away from the adjacent flooring toward the center of the space.

Once the damaged hardwood floor pieces are removed, it is time to install the new hardwood floor pieces that have the exact size as the ones taken out. The hardwood floor installation involved in this process takes time since every piece of hardwood floor needs to be nested in an already existing connection of hardwood floor pieces.

When the hardwood floor pieces are already installed, the next step is to have them face-nailed. Nails are normally drilled into the wood and not hammered as hammering may ruin the wood by splitting it.

These are the basic things that professionals do when repairing hardwood floor pieces. Again, if you have hardwood floor pieces that are ruined or damaged, please contact the nearest hardwood floor repair company to do the job. A single mistake in the repair process may cost you to reinstall your hardwood floors.

Willow Wood Hardwood Flooring
8105 North Otis Ave. Tampa FL 33604
(813) 382-0009
http://www.willowwoodhardwoodflooring.com