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Oak tongue and Groove flooring
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| I just finished installing my 3/4" oak tongue and groove flooring and wanted
to know if I need or should fill the small joint cracks with a filler?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jeff
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| We always did 50 years ago but although I don't agree, a lot of
floor layers don't anymore. We rubbed it in as a semi liquid with
a hunk of burlap bag.
<doccook@charterinternet.com> wrote in message
news:3cEGg.4$Im5.1@newsfe03.lga
>I just finished installing my 3/4" oak tongue and groove
> flooring and wanted to know if I need or should fill the
> small joint cracks with a filler?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Jeff
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| Yes, you want to fill cracks and sand again. As said, a semi-liquid
form mixed for the purpose. If you apply several coats of a good
quality polyurethane finish on top of that, you'll get a reasonably
crack free surface that can be cleaned with an iRobot unit. Don't
expect to use carnuba wax.
Glenn wrote:[color=darkred]
> We always did 50 years ago but although I don't agree, a lot of
> floor layers don't anymore. We rubbed it in as a semi liquid with
> a hunk of burlap bag.
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> <doccook@charterinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:3cEGg.4$Im5.1@newsfe03.lga
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| CWatters 2006-08-23, 5:25 pm |
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"Alan" <atufft@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, you want to fill cracks and sand again. As said, a semi-liquid
> form mixed for the purpose. If you apply several coats of a good
> quality polyurethane finish on top of that,
That makes me cringe. Here the boards come with T&G on all four edges and a
micro bevel on the long sides, no filler is ever used (except on knots) and
the best finish in my view is oil and wax. You can use polyurethane but the
result looks like plastic to me. Why buy expensive oak if you want it to
look like plastic?
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