Wood Filling Adventures

I wish we were only down to little things, but we're doing the little things while the big things still loom over our head (i.e. installing floor in the basement!) One of the little things is to fill in the holes around the outside of the first floor, where we were no longer able to nail the bamboo floor in at a 45 degree angle and were consequently forced to "face-nail" the bamboo strips. In other words, when you get near the wall, you push the nail gun down on the floor and nail.

This leaves divets in your floor that you have to go around and fill in with something that resembles the floor coloring. Amazingly there are different options out there for this (who knew?) I first tried regular old wood filler. Bad move as you can see from the above photo. I didn't know at the time that they sold different colors. This will have to be dug out and replaced.

This is my second attempt using a putty stick. It looks good colorwise, but the waxy substance seems to roll out of the holes. Moving on to the third filler...