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I'm patching my front floor plans ... only about the center 16" needs to be done, and up the firewall about two inches.

The method I'm using is cutting out the bad areas, then cut a matching patch from the panel with about 1" of overlap around the edges. I clamp the patch to what's left of the floor very snuggly and tack weld it around the edges.

Next I plan to cut both the panel and the existing floor a the same time through the 1" overlap a few inches at a time, tap the patch down flush with the existing floor in that section, tack it in place, move on to the next six inches? Should leave a decent butt joint, and if it can be cut at an angle it can even be a flush lap joint since the two pieces will lay together like this \\ .

Anyone ever done it this way before? Any tips, advice?