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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
I just had my pine floor refinished a few months ago so it's smooth and shiny. My daugther was trying to "help" me move some firewood and accidently dropped it, leaving a very obvious dent in the floor. Halp.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
they have wood fillers and epoxies but if your floor is done in a natural finish, I think you might be up the creek.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Maybe this will help:

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/asktoh/question/0,,214483,00.html


I would just leave it though. We have two boys who already destroyed a small portion of our bamboo flooring we just put in. I figured I wont do anything (since it will just keep happening with boys) and call it "character".

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Yeah,

I was thinking maybe a dark filler that matches the knots and putting a little poly on that.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?

Try sanding it, putting a wet towel on it so the moisture is absorbed and raises the wood, then sand it level and refinish.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Use a hot iron over a wet towel to expand the grain of the wood to help push up the dent. This will destroy the finish though. So after you use the iron with the towel, let it dry, lightly sand it, stain if necessary and add some polyurethane.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
put more dents in other areas of the floor, link them together and fill it with water, call it a moat

 

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Pine floor? Pine is a very soft wood - why would you have a pine FLOOR?? confused

 

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it isnt a dent, its a feature happy


will always remind you of the help you received that day ;p

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Poop in it.
Trowl it straight.
Blow dry it dry.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
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it isnt a dent, its a feature happy

will always remind you of the help you received that day ;p
Or . . . you can use it to make your daughter feel guilty for YEARS.

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that too grin

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
when she is 18 and wants a new car tell her, i cant, im still paying for the floor i had to get fixed when you....


or tell her fiance that he will need to get REALLY hard wood flooring bc of her ;p

 

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or tell her fiance that he will need to get REALLY hard wood bc of her ;p

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Oooh, soft pine floors.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Some of the prettiest hardwood floors are pine.

I had a red pine floor in my victorian and red oak for the staircases only.

It was mined out so to speak by the 1920's they grew in the south and are gone now.

New forests grow to fast, the trees don't have to fight their way through the canopy and as a result they grow faster but have very open grain.

As far as your dent the iron and wet towel sounded most likely to help (use the steamer a lot) but you will have to refinish a portion of your floor and blending it in might prove more impractical than living with the dent.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Pine floors are gorgeous and look amazing when brand new...but that isn't their best feature.

They get more beautiful over time as the dents and dings accumulate and darken and they get "character".

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Stormyblade posted:
Pine floor? Pine is a very soft wood - why would you have a pine FLOOR?? confused


I was also curious about this... but I'm pretty sure my parquet floor is made of pine as well... but I just don't care if it gets a dent here or there, adds character.

 

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Subject: Does anyone know how I might repair a dent in a wood floor?
Pine has some characteristics that make it a good choice for flooring over hard woods.

It's much cheaper. It's much easier to work with. It's more comfortable to walk on than wood floors made out of hard woods. It's very traditional and has the look that many people associate with wood flooring. It doesn't crack as it ages like hard woods do. Nails stay embedded in it much longer and splintering is less common. It doesn't echo as much as hard woods do.

Of course there are disadvantages as well. Yellow pine is a good choice for durability, but white pine has the look many people want, but it only lasts about half as long. Of course, half of 100 years is still a pretty long time.

 

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