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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