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How to Install a Hardwood Floor

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With patience and attention to detail, installing a new wooden floor can be an easy home improvement project.
Step 5: Check the thresholds.
The threshold of this closet cannot be covered with molding, so we will cut a filler piece of floorboard to fit. With the starter course in position across the threshold, measure the space between the course and the threshold to determine the width of the filler.
Measure the space between the course and the threshold.

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