Trowel Filling Hardwood Floors

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Trowel filling hardwood floors.

Pour moderate amount of duraseal trowelable wood filler in needed area. Let the filler dry for 24 hours. Keep containers tightly closed. But if done during the wrong time of year it s not a long lasting fix.

Go all the way round the edge and spiral into the middle of the floor. Sand surface to remove excess duraseal trowelable wood filler. By spreading the fill over the entire floor you ensure every crack is filled. Be sure and fill from the bottom up removing excess filler as you go.

Spread the filler over the gap from several angles so that the layer is even with the floor. Swipe a bit of filler and fill round the edges if there are gaps or nail holes around the edge. Once you have done this in a small area around you slight the trowel back and forth with a fair amount of pressure almost snow ploughing it back and forth as shown in the video. A 3 5 gallon bucket fills up to 3 000 square feet.

But if done during the wrong time of year it s not a long lasting fix. Use a putty knife or smooth edge finishing trowel to fill your gaps. Clean with water while wood filler is still damp. Red oak pro finisher wood filler is a latex based wood filler designed to enhance the feel and look of your hardwood floor.

This simple video shows you exactly how to trowel fill an easy w. You then take a trowel and move the filler 2 feet in either direction going backwards to spread the fill over the floor. Trowel filling a hardwood floor is when you put about 1 4 of a gallon of wood filler on the floor initially keep adding more as the you do more sq. Thin trowelable coat fills small cracks nail holes gouges broken edges and opening grain of unfinished oak resulting in a furniture like finish.

Allow to fully dry before doing final sanding. Roy reichow has 44 years of experience in the wood flooring industry as a wood flooring expert. Press filler into cracks and holes using an even edge trowel. Full trowel filler is thinner than wood patch designed to spread across the surface of the wood floor.