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We have a wood panel floor, oak I think. It has a scratch in it. It’s not very deep (less than 1mm) but doesn’t look the best. It’s in an area that gets a fair bit of foot traffic. How best to cover it up?
Scratch repair pen or resin/wax stick?
Rub some oil in. Either Osmo oil or Danish/finishing/ tung etc.
It's in a high traffic area so you will get more scratches. They're Patina...
I’ve just repaired an oak veneer floor using a cheap wax crayon and colour pen kit from eBay.
It was a distinctly noticeable chip , say 8mm long, 3-5 wide and 1 deep. Really surprised at how well it worked, mrs couldn’t find the repair once done.
Filled with nearest colour (go lighter I’d say) wax by crayoning over (*would possibly try adding heat next time to make wax easier to work), then by ‘mixing’ two pens (put on both colours and mix whilst wet, just used finger to mix round adding lighter or darker till I was happy) managed to get a good base colour match and a couple of tiny lines with a darker colour to try to emulate the grain pattern
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I'd wet it slightly, see how dark it goes. Then use that as a guide to what to put on it, ie plain oil, or tinted, or a wax
In the past I've just used olive oil to conceal scratches and that may even be enough.
Cheers all, much appreciated.
Cross grain scratches are a bugger to remove.
You could try sanding along the grain, but tbh you'd cut right in before you saw it beginning to disappear. So im afraid you'll have to live with it.
Worked on an old Victorian house once putting in a big shelving unit. Odd house, kitchen and living area separated by a huge curtain. The kitchen floor was a mess of scars, divots and lumps taken out it and being well over 100 years of use it was quite fetching.
This is the thing about wooden floors, in that they pick up on life.