Stain the rope select a rope with a diameter that is slightly larger than the gap.
Rope repair wood floor.
Fill small cracks under 1 8 inch with a matching color of wood putty.
When sanding minor scratches restrict your sanding to the scratched area feathering only slightly into the surrounding surface.
Wait about 2 4 weeks for the poly paint to cure cross hatch it with a razor and rip it off.
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.
Fill the gaps string out the rope along the gap.
Fill the scratch with premixed wood filler.
Method 1 using rope to fill in gaps.
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.
2 vacuum floor clean of all dust and debris.
Rope repairs filling floor cracks with lengths of rope might seem strange but ropes made from natural cotton or jute are stainable flexible and they adjust to changing humidity along with the.
Use a plastic putty knife to fill the scratch with wood filler that matches the color of the floor.
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.
Synthetic rope won t work.
Rub mineral spirits over the area to smooth it out and to pick up the fine dust from the sanding.
Things needed putty knife vacuum braided hemp rope utility knife stain bucket newspapers.
1 scrape debris from between flooring planks with putty knife or painter s tool.
Rub mineral spirits over the sanded area.
3 if desired tint rope with wood stain to match floor.
Pour wood stain chosen to match the.
Always sand or buff only in line with the wood grain.
So do a small test spot doing all the prep as i said.
4 force rope into gap between planks with putty knife or painter s tool.