Repair Hole In Wooden Floor

The most reliable way to match the color of a species of wood to fill holes in a wood floor is to mix sawdust from that wood species with glue.

Repair hole in wooden floor.

For a deep gouge fill the hole with coloured latex wood filler in the shade that most closely matches your floor. Install the filler wood piece and wait for the epoxy to dry. Reader photo by jeanne huber jeanne huber email bio july 2 2018 at 7 00 am edt q. Isolate the hole in the hardwood floor.

Using a plastic trowel or a plastic spatula lay the sawdust glue mixture into the cracks. Avoid pva or carpenter s glue. Try to finish off as smooth as possible. You could always cut a out of the existing floor somewhere out of the way like a closet corner but then you ve got a hole in your closet.

How to repair a gouged wood floor a reader wants to repair a puncture wound in this parquet floor. The shed floor in our backyard has a rotten floor from a water breech over the past few years and was falling apart. Use a plastic putty knife with a metal one you run the risk of more scratches. No matter what type of sawdust you mix the final color will be a dull yellow or even gray.

You re better off matching some scrap wood of similar. Shape the filler piece of wood to fill the hole. Clean these indents with a folded piece of sandpaper. There were 3 boards fixed here plus 1 along the back wall.

The floorboards in the kitchen dining area are now ready to be restored we need to put filler between each of the boards then sand them back to remove any scratches or marks in the wood then they ll be ready for a coat of tung oil. I used scrap materials from previous pro. Did not want to sand and refinish the entire floor so i did some spot repairs. Wipe on a diagonal to avoid pulling filler out of the patch.

Wipe the patch and adjacent flooring with a damp rag to wipe off any excess. It s important to smooth the edges so the repair materials stick to raw wood rather than a finish on the flooring. Fold the sandpaper so it has a pointed edge. Had a 75 year old oak floor with some deep gouges.

Don t use just any glue though or it may discolor the sawdust.