Plastic wood is not a good idea. Try minwax putty its next to the stain at your hardware store, and comes in many shades, you should probably try to find a clear epoxy to apply with a Q tip after the putty is in place. Be sure to keep the epoxy only on the affected area, you may have to deepen the gouge with a nail set or similiar - this will leave the floor with "scar" that can only be fixed by replacing the board (depends on the customer, if it was me I would replace it), the corner chips will disappear with the putty.

lol rhizo. Maybe I could have completed it in an hour, not 30min. I'm too impatient and make too many mistakes and have to start over a bzillion times! Plus I learned something from the hardware guy. I always measure and cut the screen fabric first - he asked me why? He said just lay the entire piece over the opening, spline it in, then cut, "no wonder you have so much trouble". Well, duh. That makes alot of sense(!). Plus he folded the edges over and into the spine of the door SO nicely. After I hung it I just stood there admiring it for a long time. :) It even shuts and fits the door frame so much better now. Either he did some minor repairs on it I don't know about or just the simple replacing and stretching the new screen in place tightened the door altogether. Now - on to buying a new storm door for the front door!

I think if you remove the piece you could take it to a blacksmith or a car body shop. Who wouldn’t love Henredon? It is the only brand of furniture my mother ever bought. Is this how the stamp looks? If so, your furniture was made before 1970. It is gorgeous furniture with the burled veneer. You know you scored! I would contact Henredon and include your photos. There is a provenance with the pieces. https://www.henredon.com/contact-five

I dont think that it is regional. I think it is more societal. I live in a area of high income, high education and a high level of sophistication and have been here for almost 40 years. It is not as if these experiences take place in some social backwater that is stuck in the 50's. Lars, I dont understand why you question my experiences when you have had some parallel ones. One thing that I have found is that HD has hired a lot of women in the last decade. Sure there must be some reason for that, probably many reasons. But, the profile of the store staff has definetly changed at my local store. HD was to have employed a customer service experience that was built so that the customer who had a question about a product or needed to know where it was in the store could digitally access a reference in some place like India, for instance, where a customer service rep could answer your questions. Sound familiar? I read about it in some consumer news but never saw it implimented in my local store. That did not sound like a good strategy for this kind of business. Maybe the corp realized it. I have no idea. But, I do know that HD has made an effort to be more self serve in the recent past. I dont know how much, if any, training is given to new hires, but unless there is some familiarity with the tools of the trade, how can these new hires be of much use for reference? I dont see that just knowing where things are in the store is the same as having product knowledge. It seems that product knowledge would be quite complicated for so many of these things. I suppose that there are reasons why someone from the trades would want to work retail, but they are never going to make near the income advising customers about plumbing fittings as they would if you were paying them to do work in your home. The abosulte best was an older guy who used to work with the plumbing parts. He was a font of knowledge. He was bit of a no nonsense kind of a guy, but the was very helpful. He has been gone for a long time. The other day I saw an older guy working in the store and he looked like what he was doing was physically difficult for him to do. It was rather sad and I wondered if this was his choice or a neccessity for him. if you,as a woman, have never encountered attitude when shopping for plumbing parts or small fittings, count yourself fortunate. I never thought that I could do anything that a man can do. I never had the upper body strength that many men have. I cant hold a power saw as steady as a man and I cant handle tall ladders like a strong man can. I also dont have a slew of buddies to come and help that bring all their own tools. As a woman, I have had to improvise and invent and do things a bit differently, usually all by myself. Right now my hand has a pulled muscle from the other day when I had to put some serious downward pressure on a screw head to keep from stripping the screw., and from an awkward angle. Now, I cant knit! It hurts to hold my knitting needles. I really like Leah from See Jane Drill. She doesnt talk down to you and she explains things so well. I am going to try her method for coping a piece of trim. It just looks like a nice skill to have and I love to learn technique.