How can I repair these dents my Ikea couch has been making in my hardwood floor?

[jackhammer_joe@lemmy.world]

You're screwed, dude. That's nothing you can easily fix. Most tips in this threat require you to do the whole room, as just fixing this one spot will most likely be pretty obvious.

Next time, try to use something broader and softer than a sheet of paper to dampen your couch's feet - especially on wooden floor.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

First of all change out the feet to ones with a flat base so you don't do more damage.

[hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world]

You're screwed dude

Harsh, but from what I see I agree, fixing it might be harder than redoing it, and covering it up if it looks good is the easiest solution you have

[jannatan@lemmy.ml]

You sure that's hard wood? You sure it's not laminate designed to look like hard wood?

Step one to fixing it would be actually finding out what it is.

[peppycito@sh.itjust.works]

Looks like linoleum lol

[prunerye@slrpnk.net]

Nah, that's just oak. Oak floors do this sometimes.

[today@lemmy.world]

Linoleum is kind of awesome.

[agentshags@sh.itjust.works]

It can support your head

[rubberelectrons@lemmy.world]

Hell no, it looks terrible so quickly. The patterns to make it look like "wood" or whatever are at most a millimeter deep, so enough usage and suddenly you have a worn out blank spot in your giant piece of shit plastic for.

It outgasses forever, you're funding the fossil fuel industry, it looks and feels like shit, and you'll throw it out in 5-10yrs.

Tldr, fuck linoleum, it is inferior in all but one metric: water resistance.

[today@lemmy.world]

Linoleum and vinyl are not the same thing. It does dent.

[rubberelectrons@lemmy.world]

I haven't seen the original form of linoleum made it installed anywhere on any jobsite I've ever worked.

I realize the term has been co-opted by the plastics industry, but if you're specifying the original linseed oil recipe from the 1870s, you need to specify that.

Vinyl and linoleum have been interchangeable terms in modern parlance for several lifetimes at this point.

[death_equity@lemmy.world]

Water alone won't help much, using steam can. Putting a damp towel down and using an iron over the problem areas can sometimes affect the dents a variable amount.

Depending on how good the varnish is, that will determine how well it works.

[naich@lemmings.world]

Leave them. The dents tell the story of your house.

[sping@lemmy.sdf.org]

What? One of linoleum's benefits is not off gassing and not being made from fossil fuels. Are you thinking of vinyl?

[sir_pronoun@lemmy.world]

I'm renting a flat and the story would be the one of my neglect, and me having to pay off the landlord, it's not my favorite one

[sir_pronoun@lemmy.world]

That sounds like a fun thing to improvise, thanks, I'll try it!

[sir_pronoun@lemmy.world]

I would agree, but I'm afraid my landlord will look under that rug at some point

[sir_pronoun@lemmy.world]

Thanks for that expert advice - let's consider the scenario where I don't know what I'm doing, and I just want to avoid my landlord deducting too much from the deposit when I move out, what would you recommend?

[dontredditmylemmy@lemmy.world]

If the landlord decides to be a dick, I would think you could respond that the hardwood wasn't hard afterall, so best to just call it a day.

[fluxion@lemmy.world]

Ah, a tale as old as time.