Tongue And Groove Hardwood Floor Repair

At the end joint use the hammer and chisel to cut straight down and through the tongue at the end of the damaged floorboard.

Tongue and groove hardwood floor repair.

Remove the bottom of the groove from the new floor plank. Repairing hardwood flooring with tongue and groove installation requires expert carpentry skills as well as considerable proficiency with saw and chisel. Use a hammer and chisel to chop through the damaged floorboards. Use the chisel to pry the severed tongue from the groove in the end of the adjacent floorboard.

Using the chisel and a pry bar remove the strip of flooring between the relief cuts and pull the tongue and groove edges of the old flooring where they interlock with the adjacent flooring courses. Tongue and groove flooring used with its joinery works best for hardwood flooring because it is a great way of creating a smooth seamless customized and often very large end product from using smaller pieces specifically engineered to fit tightly against one another. The individual panels are generally held in place by compression from the installation process instead of being nailed or glued into place. Completely clean out the opened section of flooring.

Tongue and groove flooring uses a system of interlocking edges tongues and grooves to stay in place with few nails.