Repair Hole In Wooden Floor

The shed floor in our backyard has a rotten floor from a water breech over the past few years and was falling apart.

Repair hole in wooden floor.

Fold the sandpaper so it has a pointed edge. Clean these indents with a folded piece of sandpaper. Avoid pva or carpenter s glue. Install the filler wood piece and wait for the epoxy to dry.

No matter what type of sawdust you mix the final color will be a dull yellow or even gray. There were 3 boards fixed here plus 1 along the back wall. Wipe on a diagonal to avoid pulling filler out of the patch. Use a plastic putty knife with a metal one you run the risk of more scratches.

I used scrap materials from previous pro. Shape the filler piece of wood to fill the hole. Don t use just any glue though or it may discolor the sawdust. You re better off matching some scrap wood of similar.

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. I like how they are staggered so they will blend in with the rest of the floor. Reader photo by jeanne huber jeanne huber email bio july 2 2018 at 7 00 am edt q. It s important to smooth the edges so the repair materials stick to raw wood rather than a finish on the flooring.

How to repair a gouged wood floor a reader wants to repair a puncture wound in this parquet 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. Try to finish off as smooth as possible. For a deep gouge fill the hole with coloured latex wood filler in the shade that most closely matches your floor.

Using a plastic trowel or a plastic spatula lay the sawdust glue mixture into the cracks. When the latex is dry use fine grit. Hardwood flooring can start wearing away as time passes and you may start to notice small holes in the wood. Did not want to sand and refinish the entire floor so i did some spot repairs.

Wipe the patch and adjacent flooring with a damp rag to wipe off any excess.