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

[sir_pronoun@lemmy.world]

I was thinking some transparent filler maybe, and grinding/polishing it down? There's some varnish on the wood anyway.

[username@feddit.org]

Steam might be able to fix those. But I don't know if that would work with varnish on the wood.

[sir_pronoun@lemmy.world]

I tried letting some water sit for some hours in one dent, to see if the wood would expand - but nothing happened. I guess that would rule out steam, unless I remove the varnish in the dents first?

[extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today]

Not a professional but they look kind of deep might need to be replaced or covered with a rug (we won't tell anyone they're there)

[pinerune@lemmy.world]

I'm not an expert but:

Resurfacing might fix this if it is solid hardwood, since you are essentially sanding down a layer and refinishing the new top layer. The dents look kind of deep, though, and may require extra sanding to take the wood down far enough.

[weeeeum@lemmy.world]

You have to remove the varnish by sanding first, then try to iron the floor. There may be poor contact in the middle so try ironing the other edges.

Other than that, you are gonna have to get new boards installed.

[thomascrappersghost@feddit.uk]

Yeah, OP wants to work over a large are, not just where the dents are.

[kambusha@sh.itjust.works]

Make the dents everywhere, and no one will know

[eiri@lemmy.ca]

Look for other advice for repairing them, but making your couch feet bigger and softer with tennis balls or felt should prevent it from worsening.

[eatham@aussie.zone]

Cover it with a rug

[readmorebooks@lemmy.zip]

There's the "right" way and then there's what's practical. Here's the "right" way:

Rough sand the entire floor to wood. Fill the voids with Starbond CA glue of the appropriate color, low viscosity for leveling. Fine sand the entire floor. Refinish with oil-based polyurathane.

If you know what you're doing then this will take three days, most of it dry time. If you don't know what you're doing then one way or another you'll destroy the floor during rough sanding.

[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.