I recently moved into a renovated brownstone which has new stained red oak floors. The developer of the unit installed 2 built in hip walls to create a dining area which we would like to remove since they aren’t well placed for a proper sized dining area. The problem is that the developer didn’t put the flooring down first before building in the hip walls, and therefore when we remove the walls, there will be gaps in the flooring. The floor was installed and sanded\/stained\/urethaned in place. We are looking for an expert floor person who could ‘match and patch’ the 2 approximate 18 sq\/ft areas without having to re-sand the entire floor again. Is this possible? I have been told that in order to match the stain and height of the 4″ planks, we will need to put in new boards ( patch ) and then re-sand\/re-stain\/re-urethanethe the entire floor again. This seems excessive and I am hoping there are experts who could do the patch and match work and make it look seamless without re-doing the entire thing….does anyone have experience with this and can you send me the number of an ‘expert’ floor person who could execute such a repair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently moved into a renovated brownstone which has new stained red oak floors. The developer of the unit installed 2 built in hip walls to create a dining area which we would like to remove since they aren’t well placed for a proper sized dining area. The problem is that the developer didn’t put…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-18121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floors"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/12\/red-oak-floor-r\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Red Oak Floor repair","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/12\/red-oak-floor-r\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/12\/red-oak-floor-r\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Floors","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"AJAS"}],"creator":["AJAS"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2007-12-17T21:02:24Z","datePublished":"2007-12-17T21:02:24Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:47Z"},"rendered":"