ᐅ New Herringbone Beech Parquet, Oiled – What Are These Dents?

Created on: 1 May 2018 20:00
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cmenschel
We had our floor (from the early 1990s) completely sanded and oiled in November 2017. It looked great at first. In some rooms, we also had new parquet flooring (herringbone beech, oiled) installed, replacing tiles.

Now, the "old" parquet already has several dents. The new parquet also has various dents and holes.

It looks particularly bad in the kitchen area. I don’t recall dropping any cutlery or plates.

We have no children or pets. We don’t walk on the floor with shoes.

The dents follow a recurring pattern. Could it possibly be caused by the vacuum cleaner?

See pictures attached.

Close-up of wooden floorboards with grain and warm wood color


Close-up of wooden flooring with grain and scratches.


Close-up of a wood surface with visible grain and a small white spot.
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sco0ter
13 Aug 2018 16:58
Nordmann schrieb:
Beech is unfortunately also a relatively soft wood. Oak is significantly harder

I don’t think that’s quite accurate. Beech is generally described as “very hard.” Its Brinell hardness value is almost as high as that of oak.
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Nordlys
13 Aug 2018 18:22
Beech is hard. The vacuum cleaner could be the cause.
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Wickie
14 Aug 2018 09:37
High heels or heels?
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ypg
14 Aug 2018 11:19
Wickie schrieb:
High heels or heels?

No.

However, thanks to the OP @cmenschel, we will never find out if it was the vacuum cleaner. He took advantage of us without any thanks 😉
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Wickie
14 Aug 2018 14:47
Oh dear... shame on me! The thread is really old... Lesson learned when buying eggs :P
Then the OP will just have to live with mysterious dents in the hardwood floor 😀