scuff marks on laminate floors or lino?

Curry_Queen

Hmmmm it doesn't come cheap does it!!! :eek: ... but then again neither does a decent quality carpet

What would be absolutely wonderful is if it already has either good carpeting or a laminate floor already laid

apprentice_tycoon

When our cat marked our new floor (post 10) he was startled by my husband closing up his toolbox with a clatter, as I said OH had just finished laying the b*****y stuff, the cat didn't actually break the surface of the laminate, but there were gouges pressed into it which caught your eye every time you looked at it, particularly because the hall is lit with halogen spotlights.
If I was to do it again I would try to damage a sample by dropping things on it, it happens in real life doesn't it?

Curry_Queen

Just a thought Squeaky, but would it be possible to move these last few posts over to the laminate flooring thread (didn't know there was one until se999 mentioned it, sorry ) so it's all in the same place?

sooz

if you have laminate and have stuck sticky felt feet to everything that moves, don't forget to add them to any borrowed chairs/furniture etc. had a dinner party and had to borrow some folding wooden chairs from one of the guests who has carpet, and the floor got terribly scratched.

if you have a very light laminate, dents [such as ones from a dropped iron!] can be filled with a very small amount of coloured wood filler.

sure i saw somewhere an ad for feet pads for cats, and knee pads for toddlers, so that they clean it for you.......... :rotfl:

as for stilettos, make everyone take their shoes of....much more hygenica anyway.

black marks from shoes can be removed with a white eraser or flash magic eraser sponge [it works miracles]

Sofa_Sogood

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

When our cat marked our new floor (post 10) he was startled by my husband closing up his toolbox with a clatter, as I said OH had just finished laying the b*****y stuff, the cat didn't actually break the surface of the laminate, but there were gouges pressed into it which caught your eye every time you looked at it, particularly because the hall is lit with halogen spotlights.
If I was to do it again I would try to damage a sample by dropping things on it, it happens in real life doesn't it?

I think it's all prone to scratch marks apprentice tycoon , but the salesman in the shop used various implements to scratch the samples for us lol! Some looked quite sharp, but the first night ours was laid, we managed to gouge a deep scratch mark into it.

Luckily the coffee tables (cubes) covered it, but I think I'll practice what I've preached and try a wax crayon

Sofa_Sogood

sooz wrote:

if you have laminate and have stuck sticky felt feet to everything that moves, don't forget to add them to any borrowed chairs/furniture etc.

Great idea sooz.

Forgot to mention it, but when we took up the old carpet, we cut squares of it off and glued them to anything that looked like it might scratch the floor. Looked ok as well

squeaky

Curry_Queen wrote:

Just a thought...

Just a thought, she sez. OK... <sigh>... you're dead right of course! It's just that, you know how some things always seem harder than others? Well splitting posts out of threads is the one BG's job that makes my brain hurt. The rest are easy

Edit: Worse still is that they then have to be merged with a live thread. It's not so bad merging two old ones because since they all add together in date posted order there isn't any mixing up... with live threads it can get confusing if people have only used quick reply and not quoted the person they are replying to.

So let me take a look and let me see if it'll be reasonably sensible after the merge...

Curry_Queen

Excellent job Squeaky :T ... thanks! :A

squeaky

<bows>

It's not too bad. People can work out who's talking to who(m?) about what.

Phew!

Splitting posts to a separate thread is (mostly) not too bad. Splitting posts to merge into a not-live-just-lately thread is a little bit less not too bad but still within the bounds of OK-I-can-do-that

Splitting posts from one live thread into another is one I usually dodge by saying something on the order of... "We have a thread about this... please click here".

That way (hopefully) the conversation moves to a more relevant thread. Certainly you old hands generally take the hint and, if I'm really having a good day, you kick yourselves in the pants for not looking for suitable thread in the first place

Heh!