How to remove scratches on the floor?

Parquet board is a magnificent and practical coating, but it can sometimes be scratched with careless attitude. To damage this decorative cover animals are able with their claws, as well as small pebbles stuck in the sole. But most often such troubles happen when dragging heavy furniture or oversized home appliances. Therefore, the question of how quickly and qualitatively remove scratches on the varnished parquet floor, disturbs many caring housewives. Let's try to find some of the most successful methods that can cope with this problem.

How to remove scratches from the floor with your own hands?

  1. If the crack is small, then try to fix it with wax. Find a piece of this plastic material, most similar in color, and melt it in the oven. The viscous heated composition with a spatula is applied to the scratch and leveled, we remove the excess and polish the problem area with a rag.
  2. Tiny chips can be retouched with special pencils, proof-readers or markers. It turns out that they are also suitable for masking scratches.
  3. Take the core of the walnut and grate the damaged area. Soon the cracks will darken and cease to stand out on the floor. Sometimes such a simple method helps to remove scratches from the varnish of parquet.
  4. If you treat a small chip with a solution of iodine, it will become less noticeable in the interior.
  5. Repair varnish is able to close small pores and cope with the task of quickly removing scratches on the home floor. Just apply a small layer on the problem area and leave to dry.
  6. When the defects are deep and disguise them with sparing means, then use the putty under the color of the coating. Using a spatula, apply a solution and remove any excess material, then grind off the area with the cracks filled with fine sandpaper. In the end, you should wipe the dust, and then cover the parquet with varnish.

Of course, all the above methods help only in cases where the chips are small. If the plate has suffered very much and the disguise does not work, then it will have to be replaced with a new board, after finding the material closest to the color for its coverage.