Holes in Your Wood Floor? Try Using Wood Floor Plugs

Wood floor plugs are used to fill screw holes in wood floor. Patching a hole in hardwood/other flooring is accomplished by cutting a plug from salvaged lumber ad using it to fill the holes in the flooring. This is an important repairing task that will ensure that your wood floors are mended and set right.

Wood floor plug usage process

To begin with, sandpaper is to be rolled and introduced with sand inside the hole. Then any debris there is to be brushed away for ensuring that a clean fit can be got later. It is important for you to wear safety glasses all through- while carrying out the sanding, sawing and drilling operations.

The width of the hole is to be then measured and by using a compass a circle is to be drawn that is a sixteenth of an inch wider than this onto a lumber that is of the same kind as the floor. Then, making use of a power drill with a wood-boring bit, a series of holes is to be drilled around the perimeter of the circle while taking care not to get inside the lines. This is to be followed with making use of a coping saw to cut between each hole and leave a plug with ridges on the sides. The large ridges are to be then cut with the coping saw.

Next, the ridges are to be shaved down with a file and, further, they are sanded down till a fairly round plug is obtained. The plug is to be fitted snugly into the hole- protruding just slightly above the surface. Then glue is to be applied to the outside of the plug and the plug is to be placed inside the hole. Using a rubber mallet this is to be hammered in and finally tape is to be placed around the outside of the plug for protecting the floor.

Then you need to place a flexible pull saw flatly against the floor- making its blade even with the surface. The top of the plug is to be sawed off and the tape removed. Finally with sanding of the surface and cleaning of the area and finishing it matching with the surrounding floor the wood floor hole repairing is complete.