Any Ideas on fixing scratches from sliding furniture on wood floor.

[Lint Basket]

I don't have pictures yet but my guy was spraying protector at a real nice home and scooted furniture around on the wood floor.

No pictures yet, I hope they are not very deep.

It's dark wood with grey tones.

 

[hogjowl]

He’s an idiot

 

[Old Coastie]

Go look. Most furniture will have a whole bunch of smallish scratches around the legs, from small movements. You need to see what caused the scratch, like a loose nail, an entrapped pebble or a damaged button glide on the furniture. Show the owner.

If there are scratches, something as simple as a “Tibetan Almond Stick” can make them blend in.
Next stepwould be to use the wood stain markers you can buy at Lowes. Start light and only carefully go darker. This will almost always succeed.

Be careful, tactful and if it begins to spiral out of control, just have your insurance agent handle it.

 

[Mikey P]

Most of the time, he didn't do it.

 

[Desk Jockey]

We've refinished 3 floors.

Moving a tv with a stuck wheel. A divan slide causing 4 6-inch scratches. On the last day of a two week fire clean up, we knock over one of our lamp stands scratching a newly finished floor.

 

[Cleanworks]

Sliders are your best friend. I used to work for a company about 30 years ago where an employee presprayed a carpet, then moved a sofa across the area he had just presprayed. The dye came off the cherry wood legs immediately and stained the carpet in long streaks where he had moved it back and forth and of course under the legs in its final resting spot. The owner and I had to go back and spend several hours with Streepene and acetic acid to rectify it. Another lesson that I didn't have to pay for.

 

[hogjowl]

We’re talking wood
Idiot

 

[Cleanworks]

We’re talking wood
Idiot

Sliders work on all floors, idjit.

 

[Old Coastie]

If he was treating the upholstery, it should be on quilted moving blankets. Or surrounded. There had to be a reson he was pushing furniture.

In most cases, it can be fixed.

 

[Dolly Llama]

depends on the floor, the severity of scratches, the finish, the skill of the repairer and how anal and/or forgiving the custy is

.L.T.A.

 

[Steve Lawrence]

Sliders work on all floors, idjit.

There are sliders with fabric on the bottom specifically for wood and other hard surface floors. Carpet sliders can scratch IMO.

 

[Mark Saiger]

Sometimes can get luck with a product from Old English

http://www.oldenglishpolish.com/

 

[Desk Jockey]

and/or forgiving the custy is

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[hogjowl]

It’s way too early for you

 

[Desk Jockey]

I know, last week here. I've got shit I need to get done before I leave.

 

[Mrice]

If you're using pens or something else to re-color the scratches dab the "pen" on a white towel, then the white towel on the scratch...it blends a lot better than just going at it with the pen. PS sorta like telling the cuty to put spotter on a towel not the spot!

 

[J. Brightwell]

With so many homes having wood flooring, every carpet cleaner should have these, or something similar, available.

 

[Old Coastie]

David, I often leave my furniture sliders under the furniture. Oh, I charge for them, but it makes life a ton easier for elderly, women living alone and those who fret about dust bunnies.

A quick stop at Harbor Freight and the bags are full again.

 

[hogjowl]

Or Lowe’s

 

[Jimmy L]

I've used the marker pens on my own wood floors. Draw them on the scratch and wipe your finger across to blend it in.
Wish they had something that would "Fill" in the scratch though.

 

[Cleanworks]

I've used the marker pens on my own wood floors. Draw them on the scratch and wipe your finger across to blend it in.
Wish they had something that would "Fill" in the scratch though.

They have wood wax repair sticks that you use to fill in the scratch. Home Depot or others.

 

[Lint Basket]

Thanks everybody, this particular client is wayyy high end and I'm into the job several thousands. I'm calling in a professional who is also a a client I clean for and has a flooring business. I feel my work would be scrutinized and could fall short in the customers eyes. Wish me luck.

 

[KevinL]

I had to pay a professional once too but it was the customer that scratched the floor but blamed us. He only charged like $60.