I varnished the floorboards in one of the rooms in my house but in some places the wood around the knot is lifting and flaking away where a comuter chair runs over it.
The floorboards have been down for years but were covered up previously.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to glue the raggy edges down so I can revarnish the areas.
Probably nothing. Sand back to clean wood & start again.
Epoxy is probably the toughest thing to use - thin coating stuff, like West sell. It might be a bit brittle for that use though.
Andy
I've heard of this problem before and almost invariably the solution is to use a rug where the computer chair is. Very few if any timbers (yet alone finishes) can stand up to that sort of forces a loaded computer chair's castors can apply.
Should use casters with a soft surface (e.g. rubber) on hard floors.
10+ years ago when I bought a computer chair from IKEA, it included casters, but you had to select the packet of hard or soft casters, for carpet or hard floors respectively.
I think that the practice of offering a choice of castor types has ceased with any 'affordable' chairs - at least to the best of my knowledge. However you are right - hence the 'almost invariably' included in my comment.
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