Fillers are very important materials in decoration, we use it to fill any holes or gap. Fillersa can be divided into many types according to its materials or please to use. Next I will give you a introduction about latex wood floor filler.
All hardwood floors get filled during installation, sanding, finishing and use. If you take a close look at any prefinished wood flooring, right out of the box you will see that it has been filled. There are many different types of wood floor fillers; some are designed for general application where others are more specific. The purpose of this article is to remove some of the confusion about fillers and to help people choose the right one.
The most common and widely used wood floor filler is latex. Latex filler is water based, stainable similar to soft wood, easy to apply and sand. All manufacturers produce their fillers is several popular colors, many provide colored fillers to match most wood species including imported woods. Almost all fillers come premixed and ready to use, a few can be purchased in a powder form that need to be mixed by the user. If your filler is not properly matching the color of your wood floor, you can mix different colors together or add something else to affect the color.
The way that the color was originally produced was by using universal colorant; therefore you can tweak the color by adding more or different universal colorants.
Latex filler is made of clay, calcium carbonate, wood fiber, universal colorant, water and some kind of binder. One natural binder that I can think of is egg yolk, without a binder the filler will crumble and fall apart after the water evaporates.
Latex wood floor filler is not an adhesive; it will not glue the floor boards together and can not be used to glue a chip or sliver of wood into a floor. This filler can be thinned by adding more water to it, if you want to skim the entire floor, full trowel filling, to seal the grain during the sanding process more water will be needed, but realize that the more water is added the greater the amount of filler shrinkage you will get. Large voids require several applications.
When latex filler is wet, it is close to the color that it will be after it is sealed with polyurethane, varnish or wax. This filler needs to be under a coating of something, if not it will dissolve and leave latex haze when ever the floor is cleaned with water based cleaners.
