| Installing a medallion in a hundred year old floor |

1.) Area for medallion centered |

2.) Area shifted slightly to help avoid nails |

3.) Shallow cuts are taken |

4.) The bit is started in a hole away from area |
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5. Router angled slowly down |

6.) Cutting groove and going slow not to hit a nails |

7.) Found cut nail |

8.) Nail did not want to drive down |
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9.) Locking pliers to pull it out |

10.) One of seven nails in the way |

11.) Pulling out old boards |

12.) Pull out boards |
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13.) And boards |

14.) Sanding old subfloor flat |

15.) Now to get the point |

16.) Template used to help cut |
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17.) Fien to the rescue |

18.) Test fit with tape handles |

19.) Medallion glued in |

20.) Now that plug in the floor looks bad |
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21.) Board with plug removed |

22.) One of the old removed boards used for the repair |

23.) Owner had floors sanded two years before prior |

24.) Area being blended in |
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25.) Entire floor coated |

26.) Finished |
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