I am almost finished with some wide plank pine flooring I’ve prepared from rough lumber. The wood was used in a retail store for display and has air dried for about 15 years. It has a few holes, from screw holes to drilled 3/8″ holes, that I would like to fill. I don’t mind the look with the holes in it, but want to keep the floor level and without voids. I would rather see where the hole is than have it filled with an opaque wood filler, but have never seen any clear fillers. Does anyone have any ideas to best treat these holes?
As long as I’m here … the planks are 10 1/2″ wide, tounge and grove. From reading the forums I think I am going to use a marine adhesive and staple the tounges. Because I am living in the house , I will probably go with a water based, fast drying poly that I can get multiple coats on in a single weekend (with the family gone). I plan on laying the floor out at least 2 weeks before I install it. Any other suggestions or input to the installation?
Thank for all the help,
Gary
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Because of the width of the boards, there will be quite a bit of seasonal movement so I would use a flexible polyurethane adhesive like Bostik's Best rather than a rigid one.
IanDG
Plugs.
>> ... but have never seen any clear fillers.
Epoxy should work fine.
The filled holes will look even darker than open holes just because the filler will allow less light down into the hole to be reflected back to the eye.
The sanding scratches on the epoxy might show through the finish differently than the ones on the wood, so you might want to do some testing to see if you have to polish the filled holes to a higher grit than the wood.
Gary
If you want clear just use epoxy. Clear and easy to use.
West system is a good epoxy.
I maybe would try to fit wood into the holes as apposed to filling with clear filler, not that you have to do it that way just another option.
Doug
glitsa wood flour cement http://www.glitsa.com make high end flooring chemicals
using a clear filler like epoxy would look like black holes..... the glitsa product is for mixing your own color match filler when none is commercially available
$30. for gallon can, more than u will need mix 100 or 120 grit sawdust from the same flooring material, use edger or belt sander, mix w the clear wood flour cement, custom matching filler