How to repair chipped timber floors?

[Jay_11]

Hi All,

When my partner and I bought our first home some months ago, we have realized some of the flooring in parts of the place is lifting up in some areas.

Apart from that, we also found some chipped marks in the kitchen and bedroom and would like some guidance on how to fix it and if it's worth repairing in terms of costs. (Trying to keep to a good low budget).

Any suggestions, help with how to go about this and products used from Bunnings to achieve the desired result would be much appreciated.

Chipped Bedroom floor without Flash

Chipped Bedroom floor without flash

Same chip on bedroom floor with Flash

Chipped mark on kitchen flooring

Another chip mark on kitchen floor

One example of raised floorboard near Linen closet

[Jason]

Hi @Jay_11,

Looks like you have at least a couple of different types of flooring.  

You might like to try Waxstix Timbermate Touch Up Crayons, which you rub or melt into the scratches and chips. There are plenty of colours to choose from, so you should be able to get a close match for each board. When there is some lighter and darker variations to the timber, you can mix two colours together as per the video below.

Hope this helps.

Jason

[Jay_11]

Thanks, Jason. I'll have a look into this product and may give it a try.

Any suggestions on how to fix floorboards when the they are slightly raised? The previous owners did leave some extra unused floorboards in the garage. 

[JacobZ]

Hi @Jay_11,

Do you know if you have a floating floor? Or has it been glued down?

You can usually tell by looking at where the floorboards meet the walls. If it is a floating floor, the floorboards will either run under a skirting board, or there will be a trim like this Floating Floor Scotia Trim or this Floating Floor Quad Trim attached to the skirting board.

It is fairly likely the floor is floating, and the raised sections are due to issues with expansion. Where there is a raised section, if you trace the line of floorboards to the wall, is there a gap for expansion at all?

If not, you should use How To Remove Laminate Flooring as a guide to lift these floorboards. You will need to replace them with new ones that are not bowed, ensuring there is adequate room for expansion at the end of the run of floorboards.

Let me know what you think and if you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Jacob

[Jay_11]

Hi Jacob,

Thanks for responding and providing this info.

I'm not entirely sure but I think they are floating boards based off what you have said. We were told by the real estate that the previous owners put some kind of underlay before they replaced the floors from tiles to the wooden floor boards. They have left extra floorboards in the garage in case we ever needed to replace what they installed. I will need to look into this to see if I will be able to do this myself or hire a pro but I usually always give things a try first.

I forgot to post earlier that one of the bedroom doors had a dent in it prior to moving in and it looks like someone tried to fix it with possibly putty but it's not flattened and still dented.

Would you have any advice on a quick way to fix this some Bunnings products and match the wood colour of the door?

Here is a pic of the door in question