About to hire a floor sander - Advice please

[Wood Butcher]

What did you use as a putty

It was the timbermate cypress. Obvious choice for me as the floor is, well cypress. I have been told that sometimes you need to try a couple of different colours to match. as similar species timber, grown in different parts of australia can have slightly different colour. (can anyone verify this or am I wrong?)

[glock40sw]

G'day.
Yep...you are right.
Spotted Gum from here (Grafton) is lighter in colour than further down the coast (Kempsey). And lighter than the QLD Spotted Gum (Even though the Cane Toad Countyites have a different Specie for Spotted Gum..C.Maculata as opposed to the N.S.W. E. Maculata) G'day Bruce.
Also, Our Grey Iron bark is more brown than the GIBK fron down south whick is more pinker.
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor
Grafton

[E. maculata]

Evenin' all,
I have difficulty sometimes finding the same timber colour in trees that grow on different parts of the same logging compartment sometimes, as Trevor(back at ya Bud ;-) alluded to, some species can have vast colour differences, here's one example,(weelllllll, my favourite specie actually) almost pale cream, then yellow to brown, pink to almost crimson heart, light grey to dark grey...and the density can go from 950 kg/M3 to 1150 kg/m3 and corresponding hardness durability variations as well, (in some areas it was understandably known as "irongum" by the oldtimers) also can suffer(?)from an oily resin type residue or at other times have an open porous dryish feel to it as well.
The Cypress so popular for flooring(rightly so, as is IMHO a striking look) also differs immensely from the stuff found on the Western slopes to the stuff growing in the Pilliga, and should be sourced from a single supplier if you wish for some degree of grain and colour consistency.