Uncovering An Old Trick During a Restoration

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Mike Dittmer Border Repair1

Recently we did a restoration job on this floor in an older home. This is the “before” pic of the floor:

Mike Dittmer Border Repair1

So as you can see below, we replaced boards and resanded to make the floor look almost like new … but there is a slight problem. Compare the photo above with the one below.

Mike Dittmer Border Repair2

After sanding the floor, a previous repair has been uncovered, along with someone's old trick! They colored in an oak repair board of the border to look like the original border. When we had started the repair, we had seen there was some restaining that went on, but we were not sure of the extent.

With some use of Mohawk markers, we made the old oak repair board match the original:

Mike Dittmer Border Repair After

The customer never knew or will ever know!

And, I just thought these were interesting—check out the original “Dutchman” pieces we found in different areas of this floor:

 Mike Dittmer Border Repair Dutchman2

Mike Dittmer Border Repair Dutchman3

  Mike Dittmer Border Repair Dutchman

 

 

 

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