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c/carpenters•piperbaileypiperbailey•29d agoProlific Poster

TIL a small floor patch in a 1920s house took me three hours

The client wanted a new oak board to match the existing floor, but the old tongue and groove was a weird size. I had to hand plane a wider piece down to fit, which ate up the whole morning. Has anyone else found a faster way to match old flooring without a custom mill order?
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the_simon
the_simon29d ago
Three hours for one board is a whole new level of pain. Hand planing to a weird size sounds like a special kind of hell. I would have lost my mind by lunch.
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kimr74
kimr7429d ago
What's the weird size that made it so bad?
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violah43
violah4329d ago
Hand planing to a weird size" used to seem fine, but man, it broke me.
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