Buckling of a Hardwood Floor

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Yep, that is what I did today, was fix one.

This is a Department Store building that was sold and in 6 months I converted to Yep, Village Candle Manufacturing Plant 10 Years ago.

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DSCN2037.jpg This is where the buckle was and the chore to remove the boards.

DSCN2040.jpg Here I have got all the boards removed and relieved.

DSCN2041.jpg Look at these boards I stacked on edge.
This was the cause of the buckle. Out of all these boards in the picture, only one of them showed evidence of staples to hold them down. Nothing at all in the others.
When the retail store had problems during the raining season we had, the humidity level in the wood rose to 20% and relieved itself at the weakest link.

DSCN2043.jpg Five hours later I was done with the replacement of the boards. Monday I will go back and sand it down and poly the red oak patch. It should darken close to the exisiting but will not be a match due to the age difference.

Protecting all the candles in the retail store around the work area is painfull. ha. ha.

Next post for picture of the interior of the shop to give you an idea.

Hope some enjoy.

Marcel

[Marcel R. Cyr]

This is what the interior of the store looked like.

Cannot photogragh the interior of the Factory, and that is too bad, because it is interesting how they make thousands of candel jars a day.


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Marcel

[Tyler Knelsen]

Interesting. Nicely done.

[James F. McKee]

nice pictures...thanks Marcel !!!

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Looks great Marcel! Do you mind coming out and finishing my stairs? I laid 1300 square feet of laminate in my house on my own, upstairs and down. Just haven't had time to finish the stairs!

[James F. McKee]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Looks great Marcel! Do you mind coming out and finishing my stairs? I laid 1300 square feet of laminate in my house on my own, upstairs and down. Just haven't had time to finish the stairs!

that's the fun part Dom....go for it !!!!

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Lol, it took me 6 months to squeeze in time to do the rest of the house! I actually need to order some stair nosing, I just keep forgetting (let's see, I was supposed to order them in January, lol).

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Lol, it took me 6 months to squeeze in time to do the rest of the house! I actually need to order some stair nosing, I just keep forgetting (let's see, I was supposed to order them in January, lol).

Room and flight and the work is free. Never been to California Dom.



The fun is always doing it yourself until you found out it was all wrong.

Marcel

[Robert E. Elliott]

Looks to much like work Marcel. lol

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by mcyr

Room and flight and the work is free. Never been to California Dom.



The fun is always doing it yourself until you found out it was all wrong.

Marcel

I was just about to fly you out but I don't want to find out I did it all wrong

[Christopher B. Currins]

Nice Marcel, that kind of work will keep you young.

[tpiemonte]

Marcel,

Great job. Why did you use new oak for the repair- couldn't you have used the old planks?