Cutting Out Hardwood Floor

Most toe kick saws cut to a maximum depth of 3 4 inches which is just enough for solid hardwood flooring.

Cutting out hardwood floor.

After removing two sections of partition wall i needed to patch the hardwood i decided to run two courses of tongue and groove perpendicular to the exis. Stripping hardwood flooring the wrong way can cost you hours of backbreaking work leave you with an enormous mess and even cause permanent damage to your subflooring. Install the rest of the floor as you normally would fitting the pieces into the frame as you go. If you have a scratch but you don t think the bamboo plank s needs replacing learn how to refinish bamboo flooring.

Removing damaged planks takes a bit of effort but new tongue and groove flooring installs in a snap. 1 set the circular saw to cut 1 16 inch deeper than the depth of the damaged floorboards. And in the broadest sense using a saw blade with fine teeth rated to cut wood laminate floors will give you a better looking cut that one with less teeth as a general reference. Cutting out and replacing damaged hardwood floor planks just takes a bit of elbow grease time and the right set of tools anyone can do it.

Our flooring is about 3 4 inches thick so i set the blade depth about 3 4 inches deep so that the blade cut through the hardwood floors without cutting into the plywood subfloor. Because we re throwing out this old flooring we weren t picky about where we made our cuts. Adjust the cutting depth of a toe kick saw to the thickness of the flooring. Cut off the tongue if it is on the edge that meets the obstruction.

Be mindful that by wood flooring in this post i am referring to cutting trimming solid hardwood engineered floating click lock and laminate based flooring systems.