How to Fill the Gaps in Tongue and Groove Pumpkin Pine Hardwood Floors

Each type of hardwood flooring system will have its own, unique coloring. For example, pumpkin pine hardwood floors may have a rich orange or red-orange color that will add beauty and depth to any room of your home. When hardwood floors that are attached using a tongue-and-groove system suffer damage or contract, you might end up with gaps between the floorboards. Before you can repair these gaps, match the pumpkin pine coloring of your floors.

Putty knife
Shop vac
Wood putty
Sandpaper
Rope
Wood stain

Instructions

- 1
  Remove all debris from the gap. Scrape the debris first with a putty knife and clear it out with a shop vac.
- 2
  Push wood putty that's the same color as the pumpkin pine hardwood floors into small gaps. The wood putty can be formed into the gap and smoothed over with a putty knife.
- 3
  Sand smooth the wood putty once it's dry, using sandpaper. This way, it will blend in with the pumpkin pine hardwood.
- 4
  Tint rope using a matching wood stain so it blends nicely with the color of thw hardwood floor. This method can be used to fill long gaps between the tongue-and-groove floorboards. Wait for the rope to dry. The circumference of the rope must fit fully inside the gap.
- 5
  Push the rope into the floor gap using a putty knife. Once the rope is flush with the floor, the gap will be filled and concealed.

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