WarnerConstCo. said:
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It was actually very good. I'd like to know more about what you were doing with that sliver of hardwood floor you removed. Just replacing a single board?
There was a floor register that needed moved. I made two cuts down the middle of the board so I could pull it out, remove the rest of them to the wall, move the vent and then patch the floor back in.
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Way back in 1945, right after the WWII, my mom bought a very old house and we moved in. We had no central heat, running water, electricity, in fact, no plumbing. The second winter was fast upon us and, since i had a year of wood shop behind me, we decided I could install a floor register into the most central area of floor space. We had bought a large kerosene space heater to place in the cellar and hook up to the single 8x8 flue central chimney. I had some help with instalation of the heater but insisted I was capable to install the floor register by my self. The register was about 30x30. Since i had only hand tools to work with and had to cut out a support beam and hardwood (painted Chestnut/can ya immagine?) 1" flooring, i invited one of my shop class buddies to give me a hand with the cutting and dropping the register into place.
We measured very carefuly, checking and rechecking (Our shop teacher had taught us to "measure twice and cut once") our measurements before proceeding with the cutting. Finally, after cutting the hole (we managed to hit a few nails along the way)we each grabbed a side of the register, being careful to put our fingers thru the grating instead of holding the flange edge. We very carefully dropped the register into place, allowing it to drop in the last couple of inches.
About the time we expected to hear the plop of iron to wood, we actually heard the rather load reverberation of iron to sheet metal as the register crashed into the heater below. You probably have already, with no further explanation from me, determined that we had measured, so very carefully, the outer, horizontal flange, and not the inner vertical flange.
Mom went to the heating store to get a larger register while my friend and I made the necessary cuts to expand the hole. I think that simple project took two of us a good chunk of the day to complete. The work was nothing. Word, of course, spread far and wide thru our school within a day or two. You see, i had a little brother. A little brother with a big mouth. A very big mouth. [mad]
Tinker
