I was thinking some transparent filler maybe, and grinding/polishing it down? There’s some varnish on the wood anyway.
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.
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!
Can we see? :)
I will post an update once I got around to doing more, I got sick :')
Thanks for the warning, I respect that - but this video seems pretty straightforward, I’m about to try it on one of those dents:
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.
Looks like linoleum lol
Linoleum is kind of awesome.
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.
Linoleum and vinyl are not the same thing. It does dent.
I haven’t seen the original form of linoleum made it installed anywhere on any jobsite I’ve ever worked.
I realize the term has been co-opted by the plastics industry, but if you’re specifying the original linseed oil recipe from the 1870s, you need to specify that.
Vinyl and linoleum have been interchangeable terms in modern parlance for several lifetimes at this point.
Not here. Vinyl is an upsell.
It can support your head
Make the dents everywhere, and no one will know
Look for other advice for repairing them, but making your couch feet bigger and softer with tennis balls or felt should prevent it from worsening.
First things first: put real feet on your couch so you’re not doing more damage.
The broader the better.
Some people already talked about ironing and it can make a difference but you gotta get down to the wood surface with sandpaper, learn how to iron wood then successfully actually do it.
Dents as big as these would require multiple passes with the iron over time.
Your real best bet would be to call a handyman or more likely a flooring place and have them give you an estimate on repair. They’ll be able to tell you if you have some kind of tongue in groove, roll or actual hardwood floor and explain what your options are. You’ll also know how much you’re gonna be paying to get whatever the landlord is holding back from them.
If you do call someone out there, find out what they charge for an estimate and pay them more on top of it in cash. People hate giving estimates because it’s someone shopping around who’s gonna try to get them down to the lowest price and has no consideration for their expertise and experience. Being willing to pay in cash and then some cements you as a customer, not a looky-loo.
You’re screwed, dude. That’s nothing you can easily fix. Most tips in this threat require you to do the whole room, as just fixing this one spot will most likely be pretty obvious.
Next time, try to use something broader and softer than a sheet of paper to dampen your couch’s feet - especially on wooden floor.
You’re screwed dude
Harsh, but from what I see I agree, fixing it might be harder than redoing it, and covering it up if it looks good is the easiest solution you have
I do love how op put a piece of paper under the wheel to prevent further damnge. Class solution! Unfortunately I have zero handy man skills for any good advice.
I’m not an expert but:
Resurfacing might fix this if it is solid hardwood, since you are essentially sanding down a layer and refinishing the new top layer. The dents look kind of deep, though, and may require extra sanding to take the wood down far enough.
First of all change out the feet to ones with a flat base so you don’t do more damage.
Pull the boards out and swap them with edge boards.
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If the landlord decides to be a dick, I would think you could respond that the hardwood wasn’t hard afterall, so best to just call it a day.
Fill it with resin /s
