This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to repair a hardwood-strip floor. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for How to Patch Strip Flooring:
- Carpenter's glue
- Spray can of high-gloss urethane
- Blue painter's tape, used to protect baseboard from spray urethane
- Wet/dry vacuum, for cleaning floor
Tools for How to Patch Strip Flooring:
- Utility knife
- Hammer
- Chisel
- Drill/driver, with 5/8-inch spade bit
- Block plane, used to plane width of new floorboard
- Random-orbit sander, with 320-grit sanding disc
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