Bondo® Floor Repairs

John E. Wainwright

The soft pine flooring used on our stage had started splintering, thanks to a combination of several years’ misuse and an unfortunate decline in the quality of flooring materials. Our floor surface is one-inch pine T&G approximately 3′ wide laid over two layers of ½′ plywood. The floor surface itself is so soft that overloaded wagons often leave temporary tracks in the surface. Splintering, which results from toenailing into the floor and from the repeated compression and decompression of wood fibers, usually affects shallow-grained boards.

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FIGURE 1: SECTION OF BONDO® REPAIR

Most of the floor-patching ...

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