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advice given.filling in gaps between floarboards

sanded my boards in the summer & many people recomended filling the gaps with sawdust/glue,dont get me wrong am gratefull for the advice but what with the boards shrinking ect the sawdust/glue joints have mainly come away.so now have filled the gaps with flexible cork which hopefully will exspand/contract with the boards.blends in quite nicely aswell & now can watch tv with a gale blowing around my ankles

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  • foxgloves
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    I did ours with newspaper....don't know if this is a recognised method or not, but it seems to have worked. I scrunched the newspaper up small & really packed the gaps & pushed it down well, then topped it with woodfiller stuff, sanded it when it was dry then varnished the floor to get it all a similar colour. Several years later, all seems still to be in place.
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  • 27col
    27col Posts: 6,554 Forumite
    While I can just about understand people sanding boards. I cannot for the life of me understand why makeover programs think that great gaps between the boards is either attractive or desirable. When I was a kid, you were very poor, if you could not afford to cover the bare boards with a bit of lino or a rug.
    I can afford anything that I want.
    Just so long as I don't want much.
  • sloth
    sloth Posts: 453 Forumite
    http://www.stopg-p.co.uk/

    i used this, i think it's brilliant
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