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Article #253: Painless Wood Floor Repair

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Wood floors can look beautiful in your floor.
home, but when they are in need of repair In your wood floor repair, if your floor
they can make your home look awful. Many has a stain on it, you need to match the
people think that maintaining and color of the stain in order to repair
repairing wood floors that have seen scratches. You should probably test out
better days is an overwhelming task that the stain a bit at a time to be sure.
is just too much to take on. Luckily, it Use a small brush and apply the stain to
doesn't have to be. Wood floor repair can the scratched area. Let the stain dry
be a fairly simple process as long as you overnight or as long as it says on the
proceed with a well thought out plan. can which can be up to twenty-four hours.
You might be looking at your scratched Once the stain is dry, take the brush and
and dull floor and thinking of all the lightly apply some polyurethane - buff
work involved with moving out all the this out before it dries to match it into
furniture and then trying to work one of the existing floor..
those sanders. The dust all over the Deeper gouges need a bit more in the wood
house. Thinking that your inexperience floor repair department. You will have to
with the sander could cause you to ruin fill in the gouge and we recommend you
the floor altogether. The stress of use wood putt that is latex based and
keeping kids and pets out of the room. stainable to do that. You'll need a
Unless your floor is too far gone, with putty knife to spread the putty and a rag
proper care, your wood floor repair does for wiping it off other areas it might
not have to turn into a major job. In spill onto. Simply pack the putty into
most cases, you can simply fill in the the gouge and smooth it over until it is
minor scratches or shallow gouges without level with the floor. Wipe any excess
getting into a major refinishing job. You off around the area and let it dry
will need a few tools and supplies to get thoroughly. Take some sandpaper and
started, however. lightly buff it out. Stain the putty to
If your floor has a polyurethane finish, match the floor using a small brush and
but doesn't look so great because it is light strokes. Let the stain dry
all scratched up, you may be able to overnight and then apply the polyurethane
bring it back to it's former luster with on top once it is dried.
some polyurethane finish that matches (or These wood floor repair tips work on
as near as you can match) what is on your floors where the damage is isolated to a
floor. Use a small paint brush and dab few spots. If you floor is covered in
the polyurethane onto the areas that are scratches and has hardly any finish left
scratched and any areas where the finish then you may be facing the daunting task
has worn off. Use a clean cloth to buff of refinishing the floor. Sure, it's
out the polyurethane before it dries. hard work and inconvenient, but once it's
This can help with small, scratched areas done you'll have glorious wood floors
and can make them blend in with the that you can enjoy for years to come.






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