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

      • ofcourse@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        Depending on the state you live in, and whether the lease specifically mentioned taking special care of the hardwood floors, this could very well be considered regular wear and tear. There does not appear to be intentional damage here.

        The landlord will also need to provide documentation prior to getting work done if they want you to cover the bill, at which point you’ll have the option to contest it.

        Check out tenant rights for your state to verify. Hopefully, you’ll also be more careful with hardwood floors in the future. Couches on wheels are no-bueno.

  • IMongoose@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    If you are renting and have no practical skills to actually fix this, just leave it alone. You are likely to fuck up the floor worse trying to do these home remedies.

    • sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I’ll be damned, it actually worked pretty well on the test dent for now, apparently! I’ll see how it looks after drying out tomorrow, and do it for the rest then!

  • janNatan@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    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.

        • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          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 floor.

          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.

  • ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    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.