Scratch marks on a wooden floor

[Anthony]

Hi

After a rather unhelpful delivery man scratched a mark in white paint a couple of meters long across my floor this morning, I then foolishly tried to remove the paint mark and have removed the paint mark, but now have marks from where i scrubbed to take off the paint. In my defence it was 7am and my brain was barely working.

I have gone back and complained to the company that made the delivery but in the mean time I wanted to understand what exactly needs to be done to fix the problem.

I presume its possible to sand the floor boards and then re-stain - but would I need to redo the whole room (its like 5m by 10m - so reasonably large) or could I get away with just doing a small patch. My fear is that if I just did a patch I'd be turning into the old lady who swallowed the fly! i.e. just keep making the problem bigger and more noticeable.

For reference I'm rather a novice at this whole DIY stuff - but as a recent first time house buyer, I'm learning fast(and I actually quite enjoy it) but my knowledge of terms etc is a bit limited.

Thanks - any and all advice appreciated

Anthony

[dasmon777]

The bad news is that unless you can get an exact shade match on your staining then you will be struggling to do anything other than a sand down and re stain.

One thing you could try is to give the floor a light sand for the purposes of keying and then put a light covering of varnish stained or other wise and with luck the natural wood ageing will help it to blend back in.