scuff marks on laminate floors or lino?

cathy_3

simple to remove

use a pencil eraser

md123

A pencil eraser works well with crayon or pencil on laminate flooring.

Found this out a few years ago, when my daughter (who was2) and friends little boy decided to draw all over friends new conservatory floor. >:(

Glad

.........and scratches can be hidden by going over them with a matching coloured felt pen

16011996

for scratches rub with a little oil to make swell (only a tiny bit at a time. works on most woods.

Simba_25

Hiya,

I have laminate flooring in my dining room where the pc is and where the chair keeps been moved it has scratched the floor.

Does anyone have any ideas how i can cover up/repair the scratches??

Many thanks
Linzi x

nicki_2

Same problem here. I haven't a solution so will be watching this thread with interest (especially as we are in a rented house - I do NOT want to have to pay for new flooring out of our deposit!)

SnowyOwl_2

I'm on the brink of ordering laminate for half my house, including the room I'm going to use as an office. My chairs in there will be office type chairs, ie on wheels - will these scratch laminate flooring? Please save me from making an expensive mistake as I could yet swap to carpet.

Thanks!

nicki_2

SnowyOwl, I would strongly recommend NOT getting laminate due to the amount of upkeep it takes - I have to hoover ours every otherday, if not everyday when DD is about plus you get these mysterious dustballs that appear from no-where just when you've finished hoovering/sweeping and make it look like you haven't done a thing. Don't even get me started on how slippery it can be if you spill something or have wet shoes! :mad:

We have "proper" office chairs and there is a large paler patch where the chair used to be, it got so bad I relocated the desk so try and even out the wear pattern!

As I said in my previous post, we are in rented accomodation and I'm so glad the laminate was already fitted when we moved in. Had we bought our own place instead of renting this place, I would have put laminate flooring throughout the house but I have learnt my lesson well (and hopefully at no cost to me ) and will be sticking to carpet in all rooms from now on (lino in the bathroom and kitchen though) even if I have to buy the cord type stuff!

chardonnay_2

you can get things to put your furniture in to stop it marking. ikea sells the pads you stick on your furniture to stop it marking your floor. i would much rather have laminate as it's much more hygenic, you do notice stuff on the floor, but is it just hidden in the pile if you have carpet?

Poppycat

We have two rooms with laminate fllor in both bedroooms. To save on cost a few years back and paying B&Q rip off prices for felt type sticky thinsg that go under furniture to stop them scratching we use and old carpet cut in stipes and glued it using one of those glue guns, works a treat. For the other bedroom which we did a bit later we used some felt sticky things from Aldi when they were on sale about £1 a bag. A friend of ours that use computer chair on laminate floor bought a office chair plastic mat.

Sorry can't help with scratches, I wonder if you cna get some wax crayons that can mask the colour, obviously similar colour.

I am looking into trying to repair a chip on a laminate floor that kids did, but I wont pay rip off B&Q prices for a repair kit.

Poppycat

BTW our laminate floor hardle gets cleaned as it doesnt now get all that dusty. We bought a floor sweeper cost a £1 from £1 shop you attach thin sheet of paper type cloth and than give it a sweep once a week or so, depends on how bad it get's. Dpesnt take long and we rarely use the hoover.