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Say, anyone have advice on how to repair damage to solid maple flooring due to gouging and/or crushing? I do not want to refinish the otherwise perfect area surrounding the damaged spots.
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your lucky it's solid flooring and not laminate. i don't know of any thorough way to repair the damage outside of a total refinish. gouging brings to mind rough exposed wood fiber and that would need to be belt sanded and feathered outward toward undamaged flooring, not a job for anyone but a skilled floor finisher. crushing? like in dropping a 400lb. barbell or furniture leg depressions? the latter occurs during the course of living with a floor and should be accepted as such.
*Well, not like a 400 lb. barbell, but more like a 16 oz. hammer. There has got to be a more workable solution than a 1200 hundred dollar refinish and half the thickness of the new flooring. That would be a waste.
*Steam. Compressed wood can be re-expanded with an iron and wet linen. Practice on some scrap first because this is more art than science. Do small patches and be prepared to do some sanding and refinishing.
*You can refinish spots on the floor if it is a natural finish with no stain. It will take a year for the spots to bleed into the original finish and match the aged color. This assumes that you use the same finish and sand the raw wood to about 150g. GW
*You can also try Chair- Loc. It swells the wood fibers. Steam is the best though.
*how about replacing the damaged floor strips? i've done a few of these with amazing results. rip the damaged boards right down the middle with a circular saw set about 1/16 deeper than the thickness of the floor then pry them out. you can pry the entire board out or cut it short with a biscuit joiner set to its largest setting and a little chisel work. when replacing more than one board make sure you stagger the joints. rip off the bottom part of the groove so it drops right in on top of the tongue and bevel cut the ends a hair for a tight fit. i had to do this on a new installation when some knuckle draggers pushed a sub zero fridge into its hole. you will either have to face nail the new boards down or cut small pilot holes with a forstner bit and fasten them down with trim head screws, fill the pilot holes with plugs cut from some scrap floor. as for the dents steam might work on soft maple. rock maple? i don't know.
*Hey, sounds like I might as well try the steam first. I have the time and if all else fails, it is the perfect spot for the oriental carpet!
*I've had good results using a router to rout out an area 3/8" deep and then glue in a patch. I used the router again to take the patch down to floor level, a few strokes with some fine sandpaper and then touch-up just the patch with matching finish.For a nearly invisible mend, cut the patch first to an irregular shape, draw around it on the floor and rout to the line.
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Say, anyone have advice on how to repair damage to solid maple flooring due to gouging and/or crushing? I do not want to refinish the otherwise perfect area surrounding the damaged spots.