Hello,
I wanted to get some ideas/advice on how to address an extremely worn spot in a hardwood floor. This is at my dad's house.
The flooring is salvaged heart pine and is probably 100+ years old. It was installed in its current home in 1985 and got super worn out from my dad's office chair, to where there are huge splinters and deep grooves where the harder rings in the pine are standing up. The boards are long (8'?) and about 3'' wide. Unknown board thickness, but presumably either 3/4 or 4/4. The biggest goal is just to get this smooth enough so it is no longer dangerous to feet.
The worn place is not huge, maybe 8x16 inches. The deepest wear might be 1/4''. It is pretty much in the middle of the floor.
Some ideas that occurred to me:
Thanks,
Sam
I wanted to get some ideas/advice on how to address an extremely worn spot in a hardwood floor. This is at my dad's house.
The flooring is salvaged heart pine and is probably 100+ years old. It was installed in its current home in 1985 and got super worn out from my dad's office chair, to where there are huge splinters and deep grooves where the harder rings in the pine are standing up. The boards are long (8'?) and about 3'' wide. Unknown board thickness, but presumably either 3/4 or 4/4. The biggest goal is just to get this smooth enough so it is no longer dangerous to feet.
The worn place is not huge, maybe 8x16 inches. The deepest wear might be 1/4''. It is pretty much in the middle of the floor.
Some ideas that occurred to me:
- Carefully cut out a section and insert replacement boards. We don't have any heart pine wood in stock, it might be difficult to find a good match. Also very tedious and difficult. I don't have a track saw but I have most other common tools at my disposal.
- Route out a 1/4'' deep rectangular mortise and inlay replacement wood. Seems easier than getting the whole tongue and groove board out, but I am not sure how well this will work and whether we would hit the nails.
- Pour epoxy to smooth things out. Not sure if we can control the flow of the epoxy so it doesn't all just run under the floor. I have not used epoxy before except to glue things together.
- Use epoxy paste. I'm not sure how durable this is and how ugly it would be.
- Put an office chair mat or other thin material over the worn section. Can't seem to sell my dad on this one.
- Just sand the worn section to where the splinters are not such an issue. Flap disk on an angle grinder maybe? Would leave an annoying depression to catch the chair casters.
Thanks,
Sam