Moving a couch across the floor the soft guard fell off one of the legs and I didn't notice. Needlesss to say I now have a huge score across the wood floor. Any ideas on how to salvage this mistake.
DIRECTBUY OF FORT WORTH If you have a sample of the wood color you can take a pc to Sherwin Williams and they will match up a stain to match and you can touch up the floor with easily.
L.A. Lady They do make wood grain fillers and those weird "crayons" for scratches. Short of sanding your floor, I'd try one of these products on a scrap piece of wood and see if it will work for your scratch. Sometimes these products work wonderfully, sometimes they require a professional. I used a pecan to take out a scratch on my wood floor and it worked beautifully, but they're not for deep scratches or gouges.
Ironwood Builders If the scratch went through the finish into the grain of the wood it will be hard to do a cosmetic fix. If it is into the grain and it is s stained floor, you need the stain. Sand out the scratch with a random orbit sander. Mask off the area, following the outline of the boards in a larger area than your scratch..go in a random outline. Stain the raw wood. Let it dry and give it a coat of your floor finish. Put on three or four coats over the next few days. Pull your masking and rub the dry finish with box cardboard (takes the nubs and dust off and leaves a lower sheen, more like the old floor). You will always know it was there...but o casual inspection, most people won't notice.
If you have not gotten into the grain and it is just a finish scratch, use some Endust on a rag to mitigate the problem.
Norm Walters Construction Inc. If it's engineered hardwood you could go right through the wear layer. David another difference between Florida and California, almost all of the wood floors here are engineered wood glued down over a concrete slab. When they are refinished, no sanding, they use an abrasive pad like a scotch brite pad. It removes some of the light surface scratches but not the deep ones.
If you have not gotten into the grain and it is just a finish scratch, use some Endust on a rag to mitigate the problem.