The most effective wood touch up kit I’ve ever used
Okay a few things to keep in mind - I probably didn’t follow instructions for this, and I used it on a heavily damaged wood floor and not furniture. My expectations were not “as good as new” since I used it on a large surface area with heavy damage but… That being said - I live in a rental and when we moved in, the wood floor was heavy with discolorations, scrapes, nicks, and deep scratches. I am obviously not going to refinish the floor in a rental, but the heavy amount of discoloration in the dark wood floors has driven me crazy for over a year. The deep scrapes and scratches are very noticeable and there wasn’t much I could do. I tried various kits and markers for wood, but they would typically not provide a good color match, and even when they did, they’d often fade back to a stark light color a few days later. It looked awful. It’s in area that cannot be covered by rugs, and looks so bad I’ve briefly considered losing my mind to pay and refinish the floor that we did not damage in a home we do not own. I decided on a whim to buy this kit, figuring anything else I tried could not look worse than it already did. And let me tell you - I am blown away. Not one for following instructions, I did the color match and dry on white paper and chose the closest color, as instructed, and then abandoned directions and went with instinct. I squeezed blobs haphazardly over the heavily discolored parts of the floor. I then took a little bit of the black to add depth and color, and squeezed bits of that haphazardly over the spots as well. Next, I didn’t feel like bringing out the tool kit to find a scraper, so I grabbed a few stiff business cards and started scraping back and forth in straight lines longwise along the wood. It filled the light spots pretty quickly and created a nice blend of dark and light that matched the rest of the floor pretty well. Lastly, I let everything sit for a minute or two and then went to town on the floor with some dampened and squeezed out paper towels to clean excess that had gotten on parts of the wood that weren’t nicked, dinged, or scraped. The slight dampness helped further blend and I scrubbed up spots that looked like they didn’t fit. The attached photo is just round one, and I wish I’d thought to take a photo of the before because this looks AMAZING compared to the before. Keep in mind the only real option to fix this floor is refinishing. I’m so impressed by how well this blended into the rest of the floor. Will it have the shine of a refinishing, no, but at least I don’t have to stare at a completely discolored floor. I plan to let this dry for a day or two, see how it looks completely dry, and fill in again accordingly. I’m also planning on using this on some furniture items as well - the variety in color allows you to mix, and while I wish they included more dark colors, the inclusion of black allows you to match tone and then darken some of the lighter colors where you need. For nicks in furniture, I’m going to say based off my experience with a massive area in a floor, this kit is gold. And at the price, I’ll buy more kits as needed. The joy I am having at simply looking at a uniform color on my floors is worth it for me. The kit can’t restore the varnish or shine on the floors, but has provided the most incredible color match and quick fix that addressed my main problem - the discoloration. I’ll have another go or two after this to fill some of the deeper gauges, but short of a full refinishing (sanding, staining, and varnish), this is the easiest, cheapest, and most effective way to provide some major cosmetic improvement. Skip the markers and buy this instead. Read more




















