I've put in a lot of prefinished hardwood flooring and I've come across a lot of unusual situations. I find it helps when you haven't done something before to ask advice from others who have. I have one of those situations.

I'm installing 3/4" x 4" prefinished oak in a dining room which adjoins the ceramic tile kitchen floor and the front foyer's prefinished oak floor. I've removed all of dining room carpeting, etc. I also had to remove two 9' fluted wooden columns (at my wife's wish) that were located on the threshold of the dining room/foyer doorway. Before I pulled the columns I had hoped the foyer hardwood was under them but it was not. The foyer hardwood was only slightly under the columns so there are large messy voids in the hardwood now.

So I've got an "opportunity" in the threshold area where I wanted to t-mold the new dining room hardwood and the foyer hardwood. After considering my options I've decided I'm going to trim back the foyer hardwood about 4" to get a nice straight edge for my t-mold. It should look fine when complete.

What tool will give me the best cut in place across about 16 rows of 3/4" prefinished oak hardwood? plunge router? circular saw? something else?

Vic

Circular saw.

I would use a circular saw also.

Even though your using a t-moulding at that edge, you really dont want the wood to splinter, ( this can even happen with a sharp saw blade ). I usually score the cutting line ,using a straight edge and a sharp utility knife, this stops splintering & gives a nice line to follow. Then I run some blue tape up against the line, ( this also protects from splintering, & protects the wood from being scratched by the circulat saw ).

Great tips. Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.

Vic