Seems I dinged the cork floor while repairing some drywall.
Must have gouged the floor with an errant screw or something.
theres a gouge about an inch and a half in the floor, about an eight inch deep. floor is a 36 x 12′ tile, stained a subtle red.
Any ideas on patching, filling, fixing this?
r2
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You have any scrap cork to work with? Cut in a dutchman.
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My daughter has cork in her condo and the people who delivered the refrigerator gouged a 1 inch long by 1/4 inch deep by 1/4 inch wide piece. She didn't have anything to match and the company that delivered the refrigerator told her to find someone to repair it and bill them. She couldn't find anyone so I got the call. We were going to buy an entire box, about 35 square feet to get the material until we found out the color had been discontinued. So, I mixed up some epoxy, colored it with Transtint, and applied it to a blank overhead slide until we got a color match and so colors we could swirl in to make it look more natural. It isn't perfect, at least to me, but no one else has been able to tell where it is.
Thats kinda the route I anticipated taking, blending colors, and fulling with a resin of some sort, maybe bondo?? Epoxy dries to a gloss doesnt it?
resin fillers come in dull...
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If the floor is just dented you could try ironing a damp rag over the spot, this works on wood don't know about cork.
Fastcap sells some colored waxes that should work.
http://www.installersstore.com/cgi-bin/INSstore.pl?user_action=detail&catalogno=43-0001
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No, its a gouge. probably an errant screw stepped onr2
cork is a wood I think.
At least it comes form a cork tree
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why couldn't he steam out the damage and cement the tear like we do with regular woods and vaneers......
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I haven't worked with cork, but that would be my first attempt. Can't hurt a thing and is the easiest non-invasive.
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Guess I should have said bark. Cork is different than most wood.Since it does not adsorb much water I don't know if you could steam it.Fastcap wax would work.KK
Isn't it the precambrian layer?
The layer immediately beneath the outer bark. Pointless post I suppose.
Henley,Precambrian is a geologic time span that roughly means before fossils.Cork is from the phellogen or cork-cambium (bark layer).;)KK
Inner bark-long period of time.
Sounds the same to me.
It's the bark from the cork tree. Doesn't work like wood. You can fill it and seal it, though.