20 Best Filler For Hardwood Floors (2023 Updated)

Over 17,000 reviewers on Home Essentials Direct have rated this Bona Hardwood Cleaner product 4. 8 stars! You’ll be hard pressed to find a similar high average ranking on any other product. There is a good reason for this.

The product simply works. It is easy to use, cleans effectively and drys fast. We have never had any damage caused during the cleaning process regardless of the dirt, grime, mud and dust brought into our home by our Irish Wolfhounds.

And they bring in a lot. We have learned from experience that hardwood floors take a lot of maintenance to make them stay fresh and clean looking. Staying with true ‘hardwood’ is the best path for those looking for enduring floors that can take punishment and yet be sanded down and polished when necessary.

You can’t effectively rehab laminate flooring by sanding. Hardwood can be damaged by dropped objects, furniture dragged across it, liquid leakages, and scarring caused by pets and children. However if the damage stretches across several slats, it can get expensive to not only get the matching pieces to replace it, but it usually requires that several pieces be removed and substitued for continuity.

Color matching alone can be difficult. Just like with marble floors, it makes sense to keep sa box of replacement slats in storage for eventual use. The same can be said of marble flooring. It can take a lot of abuse before it becomes cloudy and the grout takes on a dirty dark color.

Care must be taken when lightening/replacing the grout. A true cleaning involves grinding the marble down to eliminate marks and broken tiles need to be kept in storage in case a few have to be replaced.

A thorough cleaning will result in marble dust permeating your whole house and the cleaning/polishing processes take time and a lot of money.

My laminate floors were starting to look a little yellow and dingy, even though I cleaned them every few weeks. Also, my ceramic tile had built up, hard to remove dirt in the grout. It was recommended to me buy the Bona hard surface floor cleaner.

I like the fact that it did not have to be diluted. It was a surprise how much brighter and cleaner the floor looked. The buildup and grime that had accumulated on my floor that caused it to look noticeably yellow and dingy disappeared.

There was a noticeable clean shine and dried streak free. I was surprised at the shine on my tile. The grout looked much cleaner also. The shine on both floors lasted at least two weeks. I highly recommend Bona floor cleaner.

It is well worth the price.

I’ve used Weldwood Contact Cement forever but this product is getting hard to find in California probably because of strict California chemical laws and the green version of this product just does not work.

And many other states don’t want to ship anything that is the least bit hazardous to California. I’m thankful I was able buy it on Walmart. Thank you Walmart.

Overall, I am pretty happy with how well this worked. While it’s not going to make your floor look brand new again, it definitely puts some gloss and brings back to life dulled or worn areas. I used this on the main paths leading through the living room and dining room and the finish now blends in very well with the edges of the room that have much less wear.

Application is a bit tedious and somewhat of a hassle as you can’t walk on the floor for 2 hours after application and furniture/rugs can’t be replaced for 24 hours. However, it’s much less work then refinishing a floor and provides noticeable results pretty much immediately.

I haven’t yet had to reapply, but I will be curious if this will be a once every 3 months thing, or twice a year, etc.

I purchased this product because, when compared to other so-called “wood restorers”, (A) the two parts are easier to mix together; (B) it’s FAR easier to use a small spatula to apply the mixed product; and (C) it definitely has a higher “tackiness” or “stickiness” than others I’ve used.

In other words, there’s less waste. But, be advised: I live in the west, where summers are dry and hot. Beware of using P. C. Woody in the heat of a summer’s day, because it will harden in a fourth of the time the product information says it will! Mix ONLY the amount you can apply.

and cut that by a fourth if you use it in hot summer sun. That “quick-hardening” in sunlight is the reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.

As someone who is pretty handy and always working on home projects I discovered this product several years ago and have used it quite often for wood repair. Upside – once dry it is a hard and permanent wood repair patch.

Far stronger than any other wood repair product I have tried. Downside – it’s pricy for the amount you get compared to products like Bondo, fix-all, wood putty, etc. so if you have a large repair good luck.

It needs to dry and cure fully for about 24 hours ( depending upon temperature) before sanding. If you sand too soon you’ll have a mess. Trying to stain it to match surrounding wood is difficult at best.

I almost always use it where it’s going to be painted.

A bit hard to handle when still wet, but really strong and it blends with my pine logs really well. I also tried a competing product but it dried with an odd reddish color that was ok for painting afterward but no good for staining.

This product took stain just like the new pine replacement log I installed. But didn’t quite stain as darkly as the old logs I stripped (the ones that actually needed repairing). Nonetheless it’s still a fairly good match and blends in well when all said and done.

Excellent product!.

Love this product so far! My husband put down a coat of the Floor Restorer about 2 months ago ( only after using the Rejuvenate Daily Floor Cleaner). It has held up well on our new floors. We have a 1 year old black lab puppy, two cats and a whirlwind of a toddler all over these floors, all the time.

I just cleaned the floor with the Rejuvenate Daily Cleaner and put another coat of the Rejuvenate All Floor Restorer over where my husband did a spot two months ago, you can barely tell where he did his spot before, it looks so shiny and uniform, and we aren’t slipping on it constantly.

It’s kept our new floor nice and scratch free. In our kitchen, it’s been down for two months also, I couldn’t get a good picture, but it wears down to what the floor looked like before we applied the Restorer to it.

I highly recommend this product, just follow directions carefully and use the Rejuvenate Daily Cleaner on it beforehand. On a side note, to do a quick clean I use the Great Value Wet Mopping Cloths on it a few times a week, and it doesn’t seem to affect how quickly the finish wears at all.

The only thing that seems to affect the wear of the All Floor Restorer is how often foot traffic goes over certain areas. The pictures below are in the living room, I have to do it in sections so I took a picture of where I stopped with the All Floor Restorer, so you can see the difference between the floor before and after.

Also, my cats decided they were going to walk over where I applied the Floor Restorer about 10 minutes after I was done, and they didn’t leave footprints. My cats are 11ish pounds a piece, if that makes a difference.

This us a great little starter kit. First, you need to do your homework because there are no instructions for anything except the controller. I mounted this on my truck’s fiberglass topper. You need to pay attention to the grounding locations on the panel and provide a ground wire and nut and bolt to them.

Yes, you only need one, but I put in two. The cable connector diameter is 1/4″, and connector diameter is 3/4″, but once you put in one cable, you need more room to push through the 2nd 3/4″ connector.

I drilled a 1/4″ hole next to the 3/4 hole to slide the cable out of the way. You will need grommets and sealant, or I used a marine through-hole connector. Sealed, of course. My truck cap is slightly curved – enough that if I had mounted the solar panel directly, it would have put a bending strain on it and possibly cracked in.

I used 1/4″ wood slices to make up the difference. I also bought rubber sheets (8″x 8″) from Ace Hardware to place under the “feet”. The kit gives you everything you need except the 12v battery to which you connect.

Please note that you connect the battery to the controller first. I use my truck in Search and Rescue support, as a radio relay. This solar panel will help greatly in not running down my battery. Surprisingly, the solarpanel was putting out 12.

43v when my truck was *inside* my garage. Yes, AZ is sunny but I was surprised.

This product is great – taking dull floors and making them shine beautifully. It coats the wood floor with a surface shine, which will show dull scuffs if you drag (furniture, etc. ) things across it, but is otherwise durable and really looks great.

Easy to apply – be sure the floors are clean first, then follow with a coat of this product. It is highly rated everywhere I checked, for a good reason.

The monocrystalline 100w panel appears to be well constructed, and provided mounting hardware is good too. Installation on my toy hauler was a breeze. The controller is entry level, but has some nice features like backlit blue LCD screen, programmable load circuit control, and two USB ports.

These are nice to have in a basic kit. Tray and charge cables are robust and high quality, however the charge control terminals are barely large enough to fit the 10 gauge cables into. I had to clip off a few strands of copper on a couple of them to fit them in.

I see why they used 10 gauge though, for future addition of another panel. Be advised that if you do add panel(s), you’ll need a higher amp rating controller. Be prepared to spend another $50 or so for fuses and holders (not included), and custom mounting hardware if needed for your specific application.

Great product, easily mixed and cures to a workable set in a matter of minutes. Straightforward toothpaste style tube of hardener which is much easier to handle than the flat sachet that comes with other products.

Dries white, can be knifed to shape with a sharp chisel as it is setting saving time and then easily sanded. Knifing saves a second coat if the product slumps. The trick is to apply more product than is needed and cut it back just when it starts to cure.

It goes through a ‘fudge’ like state before fully hardening. Leave it too late and you will have a rock hard problem so don’t get distracted if using this cheat! Had a rotten windowsill filled and painted within 15 min using this technique (after overnight treatment with wood hardener) Great emergency item to keep in your van.

For larger jobs I’d normally use two pack fillers but on this occasion I only had to fill a dozen or so countersunk screw heads. It wasn’t worth mixing up a two pack filler for such a small job so I thought I’d try Everbuild wood filler.

My initial thought were that it was rather sloppy and I feared it would just crumble away when dry. I followed the instructions, leaving the filler proud. It dried in the specified time but then I left it overnight.

Wow, it dried rock hard and was far from crumbly in fact, I regretted leaving it proud as I found it difficult to rub down. My view is that next time I use it, I’ll leave it flush, allow it to shrink slightly (as all fillers tend to do) and then top it off in two hours after it’s dried.

I’ve tried all brands of wood filler and keep coming back to everbuild for three reasons. 1. Price. 2. Ease of sanding. 3. Longevity of stored product. I also like the 2part everbuild filler for bigger jobs, but find that understandably harder to sand, so for everyday jobs this is my go to filler.

Great way to permanently repair exterior wood trim, posts and beams that would be expensive to replace with new. I have repaired 12 full dimension 6″x6″ approximately 20′ long posts and beams associated with them that support a high deck and roof structure.

They had severe weather damage and I had repaired them with Bondo in the past but it did not last more than a year before it started to squeeze out of the weather cracks. I repaired half of the posts and beams using Abatron a year and a half ago and the wood remains in perfect condition.

I am now about finished repairing the remaining beams. I also have found Abatron to be the perfect repair for cracks in my cedar siding. I am very impressed with this product and highly recommend it.

When MyBondo repair failed I contacted technical support at Bondo and the rep told me he hated to recommend a competetors product but for my repairs Abatron would be his choice. The tough part was removing all of the old filler.

I also used liquid wood everywhere that I used the Wood Epoxy to make certain that I got the best repair possible.

I used this product on my kitchen (laminate) and bathroom (tile) floors for the first time, two coatings. The shine was good at first, but walking left permanent dull paths on the floors in just a few days.

A week after the application I mopped the floors with warm water, and the floor finish started to peel off immediately, leaving a streaked mess behind. It took many hours to remove it and the kitchen floor is now damaged.

This purchase was a total waste of money and my time. I will never buy anything of that product line again.

Do not use this product! I used it ONE time and my floors are a mess. It scratches where my dog has walked and where chairs move at the dining table. If you miss one single hair it is stuck for good.

Getting this crap off has been a headache, and I REFUSE to buy the cleaner this company sells to get it off. I already waisted my money the first time. If you use this, RIP To your floors, back and money.

The shine for the first 5 minutes was nice to look at though.

My mother really liked this product. Always left a clean feeling, smooth and beautiful shine on tile floors. We did not use it on her wood floors. We give it only three stars as it clumps and clogs multiple spray mops.

When we strained it there were clumps in the bottom of the bottle, I can only imagine it is the baking soda in the product not dissolved correctly?? Will try to contact the company to make them aware of the problem.