Advice Regarding Timber Floor Repair

LItsBatman on 18/07/2019 - 16:06

Looking for some advice about timber floor repairing

We just moved out of rental home, we found that the floor had some of these scratches, Now the agent is saying that owner wants it to get repaired which means removing all floor boards to put the new one and contractor gave a me a quote of $40+gst/m2. he also dont know how much it would cost as it depends on the area he will work on

I want to know if there are any other alternatives for this as its costs a lot. I would pay for flooring if the floor was damaged but if these scratches can go by simple DIY or buying any paint or something , it would cost me less.

Please help

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Comments

  • 87percent on 18/07/2019 - 16:27
    +1

    is it real timber floors?

    • ItsBatman on 18/07/2019 - 16:40

      dont know, have to check

      • iampoor on 18/07/2019 - 16:45
        +2

        At that price it would likely be cheap laminate which can't be sanded down and refinished.

        Doubt that can be considered normal wear and tear, something sharp was dragged over it!

        • 87percent on 18/07/2019 - 17:01

          My money is on someone vacuumed, and they left the head on the carpet setting instead of the floor one.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/07/2019 - 18:35
      +1

      Laminate.

  • robbyjones on 18/07/2019 - 16:30
    +2

    Try walnuts, sounds crazy but it will work on some of the scratches, the oil in the nuts mask the scratch, they come back as the oil dries out but it's worth a shot. Why can't the floor be sanded and coated, pulling up boards will make the rest of the floor look bad, it will never match. You could try a wax and a commercial buffer and do the whole floor. There is no DIY top coat that will work unless you have experience and even then you run the risk of making it worse.

  • John Kimble on 18/07/2019 - 16:32
    +1

    Surely that's standard wear and tear…

    • HighAndDry on 18/07/2019 - 16:48
      +1

      Not scratches that noticeable and that big.

      • [Deactivated] on 20/07/2019 - 11:45
        +1

        I've lived in a rental with laminate floors. It is virtually impossible to not leave scratches. I had my lounge slipper with a few grains of salt embedded go the leather outsole and it left visible scratches everywhere I went until I noticed it.

        Thankfully, the landlady is familiar with the concept of cheap laminate.

        When friends discuss flooring options, I always tell them to avoid laminate unless they have poor eyesight.

        • HighAndDry on 22/07/2019 - 09:51

          Fair enough. If it's that easily scratched, would it be easy to buff out too?

          • [Deactivated] on 22/07/2019 - 10:24

            @HighAndDry: Can't buff out unfortunately.

            It's like scratches on a gloss print photograph. You can buff for texture but you'll just be erasing the print.

            Don't bother with it for rental properties. I'd go vinyl. Vinyl is slightly cheaper to lay (infact, easiest to DIY) and the total cost difference is negligible.

            • HighAndDry on 22/07/2019 - 10:26

              @[Deactivated]: I think mine has….. bamboo timber flooring? Held up decently so far.

              • [Deactivated] on 22/07/2019 - 10:28
                +1

                @HighAndDry: Bamboo is a solid product (both figuratively and literally).

                You can buff a bamboo down a centimeter and as long as you haven't hit the structural floor/underlay, you can finish it to look like the rest of the floor (sans the newly made dip).

                Bamboo is great.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/07/2019 - 17:05
      +1

      No way is scratches like that normal wear and tear

  • chumlee on 18/07/2019 - 16:36
    +2

    You need this from Bunnings

    https://www.bunnings.com.au/waxstix-maple-timbermate-touch-u…

    • ItsBatman on 18/07/2019 - 16:41

      Thanks, will try this

    • [Deactivated] on 18/07/2019 - 17:04
      +5

      Now the agent / landlord knows about the damage I doubt they would be happy fixing it with a touch up stick. I wouldn't be.

      • thatonethere on 18/07/2019 - 17:21
        +1

        They were mad to have wooden floors in a rental anyway…

        • HighAndDry on 19/07/2019 - 10:58

          Some tenants like wooden floors and plenty of people are able to have wooden floors without scratching them up, or fixing them up if they do.

  • Stewardo on 18/07/2019 - 17:32
    +4

    This is mdf flooring the the timber pattern Is printed on, you might hide it a bit with a sealer or wax stick as others said

  • [Deactivated] on 18/07/2019 - 18:39
    +4

    Definitely laminate flooring.

    It's the cheapest and nastiest stuff. It scuffs by just looking at it and it cannot be buffed out as it is a printed surface onto some form of synthetic substrate.

    If the scratches are just that spot and maybe 1-2 more, I'd argue that's normal wear and tear of the product. Let the landlord pursue you for damage through a tribunal.

    • Stewardo on 18/07/2019 - 19:07

      Synthetic substrate-mdf

      • [Deactivated] on 18/07/2019 - 19:16

        I've seen something that looked like particle board as well.

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