Carpentry advice needed

[Rupster]

I have a floorboard which is audibly rubbing against a radiator pipe when anyone walks in that area of the room.

I'd like to cut the floorboard in situ as lifting it up will involve a whole lot of work which I'd rather avoid.

I have a jabsaw, but it doesn't have any serration on the first centimetre of so of the tip of the blade, so it won't work for this job.

The radiator pipe connects to another one which runs parallel with the wall and sits approx 1cm under the floorboard.

What can anyone recommend?

Thanks.

Chain drill some small holes and whack it out with a chisel?

Squirt some WD40 on the pipe/around the floor board as a quick fix :)

Is chain drilling where you limit the depth of the drill bit in some way? (I've tried googling it.)

I would have thought a small sharp chisel would work. Carefully work across from the bigger gap and round the pipe, tapping the chisel with a hammer .

Chain drilling is where you drill a number of holes next to each other to form a chain. There will then be very small areas of undrilled wood between the drilled holes and a section of the floorboard can be knocked out.

I would be worried about drilling when there's a pipe underneath. You'd need to mark the drill bit to ensure you only go as far as the other side of the floorboard.

Is there any way I can limit the depth of a drill bit? Otherwise when I reach the bottom on the floorboard, the drill bit may suddenly go down on to the pipe!

You can wrap tape around it at slightly less than the depth of the floorboard so you know when to stop. It won't physically stop it though.

I have seen drills with a "pointy stick" type attachment so that when the pointy stick touches the wall (or whatever) you stop.

tou could do it with a multicutter.

You have to cut at the joist on each side of the faulty pice. Almost certainly a joist has been cut away to put the pipe through and the piece of floorboard is unsupported. You will have to provide support for it, fixed to the jopists on both sides.

However

Remember that the plumber took up that board with his axe or chainsaw therefore you know it comes up. So there is no doubt that the best action would be to find the cuts and the screws and nails he used, and take up the same piece again, and do the job properly.

I wouldnt risk drilling. It could end badly.

Haven't made a start on it yet, but in the meantime the WD40 worked a treat!

There you go,,keep it simple !