Hardwood floor repair- C Springs

[Irving]

That's correct if it's below the deductible. Generally, if you can do things without insurance, I recommend that, but it didn't sound like she was going to tackle it herself.

[muddywings]

That's correct if it's below the deductible. Generally, if you can do things without insurance, I recommend that, but it didn't sound like she was going to tackle it herself.

I've done hardwood floors myself and have a nailer and a compressor. I would just be a matter of a 4 hour rental with an floor nailer and my guess about $50-100 in hardwood and a Saturday so I told her I could help her out.
I recommended waiting till spring.
Looking at the rest of the floor, it wasn't sanded after it was installed as you can feel slight ridges between all the boards (not where the water damage is) which tells me the installers didn't bring in one of the large push sanders and do a refined sanding. Also looking at the some of the ends (where it butts up against cabinets or walls) it doesn't look the most refined-tells me it was a DIY job in the first place. (anybody correct my logic if I'm off base though). Last it doesn't have a real high gloss so it doesn't have a bunch of clear coat on it (not very glossy). Just the stain and maybe a finish coat.
With that, I think i can plunge cut with my circular saw and knock out the boards easy enough with a small pry bar and a chisel. Then it's just replace with the same type of wood and refinish. My only unknown worry is the subfloor. I did just go over there and pull the fans from the crawl space and the bottom side of the subfloor was pretty dry, just some leak through where the plumbing was going through.
I did say she might want to bring in a pro to do the finish because I suspect there is some real skill with blending the finish withe the prior finish.
Anybody feel free to correct my logic.

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ETA: where those wrenches are are the upper corner of the warping. so back towards the cabinet is the square area of the problem.
ETA2: I don't have kids so I have free weekends to do stuff like this LOL