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Thanks for all your posts. I did get a few quotes and everyone did recommend changing out the hardwood in the damaged areas...so we are going to do that...
I also recommend matt fisher - fisher hardwoods. he did an awesome job lightening our hardwoods from antique to a honey. awesome, timely, neat & clean job.
Tripoint Flooring helped move our furniture out for us. They actually moved the furniture in and out of my parents house while they were on vacation - did a great job!
Thanks, and the more I think about this, the more questions I have. For those of you who've had refinishing done, did you have to move out for a few (how many?) days? How long until the floor can be walked on? Thanks for any insight into the process!!!
Did not move out and did not entertain employing companies that insisted that we do so. You can sock-walk on the floor at night but they need a good week to totally cure. We lived in another part of the house until two weeks after so we could move back the same time the furniture and new rugs did. It was a chore but so worth it.
That's not how to fix a bad board in a laminate floor.
I rewrote the instructions when I worked for a major laminate company. You just cut (with a tiny saw) the inside center of the board (cut out a rectangle from the middle of it), saw one side of the remaining piece of board to remove it from its neighbor, and slip it out of the other 3 sides (if it's a "floating" floor). Then you insert one new piece, and at the side you originally cut, you need to glue it to its neighbor.
You never have to take out all the boards to get to the bad board.
I remember the first time I saw how it was done. It was, "Wow! That's how they do it! I never would have thought of that."
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Originally Posted by Special_Guest
I have laminate. When a board gets damaged somebody has to pop a board out and replace it. It's actually pretty labor-intensive, as you have to remove all the boards to get to THAT board.
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