FILLING THE GAPS

This is all about filling in the cracks, or more to the point, filling the gaps between the boards.

Yes, it can be done.

Yes, it looks good when the floor is all free from gaps and spaces.

Yes, we can pretty much find the right colour to match your floor type.

Unfortunately, it is all short lived, as once the boards shrink and expand due to climatic changes the tightly packed filler cracks, breaks and pops out and quickly looks worse than when the floor simply had unfilled gaps.

 Once the filler starts to come loose it can easily get caught up in the head of your vacuum, and as this putty has dried as hard as concrete, you can only imagine the scratches it can cause as you push the vacuum across the surface. Also, it's quite easy for a piece of loose putty to get under your feet and be dragged along, once again causing scratches.

Along with that, once the putty has broken through and damaged the coated surface, it allows water to get in under the coatings, which of course, creates another set of problems.

 Although the filler comes in various colours which helps us to best match your timber species, it still lacks that light and dark variation that timber has. So, as we fill the gaps, the board on the right might be considerably darker than the board on the left, and then we put in the filler, which is not quite as dark as the right hand board, and not quite as light as our left hand board

So, in the end, we have filled the gaps, but in it's place we now have stripes of either lighter or darker putty,(in relation to the boards next to it) which can often stand out worse than the original gaps we started with.

Some days we just can't win.

 Often we get asked to "Just do the bad one's". This seems fine initially, but once we have filled the biggest and most noticeable gaps, the second worst one's now become the worst one's and so on it goes.