Plywood Floor Gap Filler

This filler is fast drying gives off a lot of strong fumes and is flammable.

Plywood floor gap filler. If the gaps in your wood floor are smaller and more cosmetic a prefabricated wood filler or a wood dust and wood flour cement mix would be good options. The next layer of filler to go down before the vinyl flooring is 1 4 inch birch plywood. Plastic wood 32 oz. For whatever reason the contractor left gaps between each piece 1 8 to 1 4 wide.

If you have wide gaps in a wide plank wood floor using natural rope as a filler is a relatively easy and inexpensive option. For this stunning diy finish fill and smooth gaps in the plywood subfloor with fast setting drywall compound and a trowel. Anyhow there are 8 joints about 20 long that i want to fill in. Step 1 sand the surface of the plywood with 80 grit sandpaper.

My shop has 3 4 pt plywood for floor. While it s best to fill any voids prior to attaching pieces of plywood together you can fill voids between plywood sheets with wood filler. It can be used to repair cracks gouges holes and other surface defects on furniture woodwork molding cabinets paneling plywood windows doors and painted surfaces. Birch plywood is extremely smooth with no surface voids visible grain or high sections.

Subfloor materials including plywood oriented strand board and to a lesser degree particleboard are fairly stable and any gaps that might develop between sheets are unlikely to widen. Wood filler can be used to fill gaps up to an inch wide and an inch deep. However many woodworkers carve a plug or wedge from a solid piece of wood slightly smaller than the divot they are attempting to repair glue the plug or wedge in place and then use wood filler to fill the remaining void. For that reason any subfloor filler you use does not have to be particularly elastic.

Inject the filler into the gap and fill the void until the filler is flush with the surface of the wood. Lacquer based wood floor filler is a mixture of lacquer and very fine wood dust. For best results use fine edger dust from the floor that is being sanded mix it with lacquer to form a putty and fill the floor as needed.