2 vacuum floor clean of all dust and debris.
Rope repair wood floor.
Fill small cracks under 1 8 inch with a matching color of wood putty.
Clean out the gaps scrape out the gaps with a painter s 5 in 1 tool or flat head screwdriver removing all dirt and old.
If the gaps in your wood floor are smaller and more cosmetic a prefabricated wood filler or a wood dust and wood flour cement mix would be good options.
4 force rope into gap between planks with putty knife or painter s tool.
Pour wood stain chosen to match the.
Fill the scratch with premixed wood filler.
3 if desired tint rope with wood stain to match floor.
Stain the rope select a rope with a diameter that is slightly larger than the gap.
When sanding minor scratches restrict your sanding to the scratched area feathering only slightly into the surrounding surface.
Rub mineral spirits over the area to smooth it out and to pick up the fine dust from the sanding.
Repair hardwood floor scratches minor scratches in wood floors often can be buffed away using steel wool or hand sanding with progressively finer sandpaper grits.
Use a putty knife to push putty into the crack until it is slightly more than full then scrape the excess off to leave the.
Things needed putty knife vacuum braided hemp rope utility knife stain bucket newspapers.
Synthetic rope won t work.
If you have wide gaps in a wide plank wood floor using natural rope as a filler is a relatively easy and inexpensive option.
This second method of only cleaning the wood is a little dicey as you can t be sure of getting the old finish to accept the coat of new floor paint.
Use a plastic putty knife to fill the scratch with wood filler that matches the color of the floor.
Wait about 2 4 weeks for the poly paint to cure cross hatch it with a razor and rip it off.
Always sand or buff only in line with the wood grain.
Method 1 using rope to fill in gaps.
So do a small test spot doing all the prep as i said.
1 scrape debris from between flooring planks with putty knife or painter s tool.