The best wood putties, compared.
Top pick: Milliput Standard, yellow/grey – Highest score in this set, 94, from 4.7 stars on amazon.co.uk. It is a general epoxy, not a stain-match filler. Best value: Everbuild light stainable, 250 ml – About £4.69 for 250 ml, with 4.5 from 9,188 reviews and a stated 30-minute sanding time for shallow repairs. Updated October 2026.
Wood putty on amazon.co.uk covers ready-mixed pastes, wax sticks, colour creams and epoxy you knead. A decorator guide still separates a hard, sandable filler, used before paint or stain on larger holes, from a flexible putty used after the finish on tiny holes. It is a Welsh general epoxy that bonds wood. It is not a stain-match filler, and the listing is ranked in. The maker’s sheet limits one coat to 5 mm and says it is sandable in about 30 minutes at 20 °C. Wax hides a scratch in a finished film and fails if you still need to sand or drive a screw. Epoxy is the route for a stripped hole, drilled only after cure. The job split is in the [wood putty buying guide](/hub/paints-and-varnishes/wood-putty/sub/wood-putty-buying-guide). Wood putty on this shelf is four chemistries.
Wood putty on amazon.co.uk covers ready-mixed pastes, wax sticks, colour creams and epoxy you knead.
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What are you repairing?
Milliput Standard provides 120 g of two-part epoxy for repairs where hardness and shaping matter more than matching the grain. Its listed three-hour cure is slower than KwikWood's, but the putty can be modelled before it sets and the compatible-material field includes wood. A 4.7 rating from 793 reviews is the highest star result in this comparison, giving it a strong evidence base for general epoxy work. The limitation is relevance: the listing sits in Sealers, and the available review themes cover plumbing, models and ornaments as well as timber. Yellow/grey is also conspicuous on natural wood unless the repair will be painted. This is a capable general epoxy, but not a direct substitute for a stainable wood-filler paste.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Painted repairs and shaped epoxy work where colour matching is secondary
Less suitable: Natural timber that will receive a transparent stain or clear finish
Specifications
Common questions
Is this sold as a wood filler?
The compatible-material field says wood and the form is putty. The best-sellers rank is in Sealers. Reviews on the listing are mostly plumbing, models and ornaments.
Does the listing say it is heat resistant?
Special features say heat resistant. No temperature figure is on the listing. Full cure time is 3 hours and water resistance is water resistant.
Can it be painted, according to the listing?
A question on the listing asks if it can be painted. There is no answer. Painting is not stated on this listing.
Everbuild is the clearest general-purpose paste in this set for nail holes, cracks and small imperfections before paint or stain. The listing says it is touch-dry in 15 minutes, sandable in 30 minutes and over-paintable in two hours, so a shallow repair can move on within the same day. Its 250 ml tub also offers more usable paste than the small touch-up tubes, while the £4.69 listed price remains near the bottom of the comparison. The 4.5 rating from 9,188 reviews is the strongest volume of customer evidence here, although it still reflects many different repair jobs. Keep each application shallow: the maker's data limits a coat to 5 mm, and a stainable label does not guarantee an invisible colour match. For routine paint-grade work, it is the most balanced buy in the group.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Shallow nail holes and cracks that will be sanded, painted or carefully stain-tested
Less suitable: Deep one-coat repairs, structural decay or finished laminate scratches
Specifications
Common questions
Does this tub say it is waterproof?
The water-resistance field says waterproof. The bullets say waterproof when dry, and suitable for interior and exterior use. No test method is given.
Can you stain it, according to the listing?
The colour is Light Stainable. The bullets say sand it, then stain, paint or varnish. Other colour names are other tubs, not this ASIN.
How fast does the listing say it dries?
Bullets say touch-dry in 15 minutes, sandable in 30 minutes and over-paintable in 2 hours. The cure field is 2 hours.
This Cncedi set is aimed at hiding small chips and scratches by mixing four touch-up colours rather than sanding a structural fill. Brown, dark brown, oak and off-white give you more scope to approach a furniture or laminate shade than a single-colour tube. The listing tells you to begin with the lighter colour and add darker filler, which is sensible because an over-dark repair is difficult to reverse. Its 4.3 rating from 671 reviews suggests useful experience, but reviewers still describe colour matching as trial and error. The instructions also say to keep water away for 48 hours, so it is not an instant floor repair. Use it as a cosmetic indoor kit, not as evidence that the damaged surface has regained its original strength.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Small indoor furniture and laminate blemishes where several brown tones are useful
Less suitable: Load-bearing holes, exterior timber or surfaces that must be sanded flat
Specifications
Common questions
Which colours are in the box?
Included components are brown, dark brown, oak and off-white touch-up fillers. The colour field says Brown and the model field says Grey.
Does the listing mention laminate floors?
The bullets name laminate floors, furniture and doors. They also say to keep water off the repair for 48 hours.
Do you mix the shades?
The bullets say start with a lighter shade and add a darker one. Reviews say the match takes trial and error. A mixing palette is not listed.
KwikWood is the most job-specific option here for rebuilding a small stripped screw hole or a damaged furniture edge. You knead the epoxy stick, apply it during the listed 15–25-minute setting window and leave it for the stated one-hour cure before working the repair. Its water-resistant claim and non-shrinking format make more sense for a firm repair than for disguising a fine scratch. The listing is less convincing on quantity, however, because it gives 28 g in the title, 57 g as the unit count and 40 g as the item weight. Review evidence is substantial enough to be useful at 4.3 from 374 ratings, but it does not remove the need to mix the two components thoroughly. Choose it for strength and shape-building rather than a subtle stain match.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Small screw-hole, edge and furniture repairs that need a hard epoxy fill
Less suitable: Fine cosmetic scratches or repairs that must blend under a clear stain
Specifications
Common questions
Does the listing say this epoxy is waterproof?
The water-resistance field says water resistant. The bullets say it resists water and chemicals and will not rot, shrink, crack or pull away. No test method is given.
How long does the listing say it takes to cure?
Set time is 15–25 minutes and full cure time is 1 hour. One review waited longer than an hour before putting screws back.
What fill weight is listed?
The title says 28 g. Unit count is 57 g and item weight is 40 g. Volume is 1 fl oz. Those figures are not reconciled on the listing.
Mollor supplies 150 g of white water-based paste with a scraper, sandpaper, gloves and a nozzle extender. The kit is convenient for a small paint-grade furniture repair, and the white colour can work beneath an opaque finish. Its own listing admits that a large fill may sink and advises adding another layer after drying, which is more realistic than a blanket non-shrink claim. Drying evidence is less reassuring: although the bullets say fast-drying, one review reports that the centre was still soft after eight hours. Another reviewer says it does not paint over well, so a test patch is sensible. At £9.99 and 4.3 from 211 reviews, it costs more than Everbuild while offering less clear timing and only a 150 g size.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Small white or paint-grade indoor repairs where you can allow extra drying time
Less suitable: Deep one-pass fills or jobs that must be painted on a fixed same-day schedule
Specifications
Common questions
What is in the kit?
Putty, scraper, sandpaper, gloves, a nozzle extender and a wall repair patch. Size is 150 g and item weight is 180 g.
Will a deep fill shrink?
The bullets say it is water-based and that a large fill may sink, so you apply another layer after it dries. Ingredients are given as water and calcium carbonate.
Does it paint well?
A question on the listing asks if it can be painted. One review says it does not paint over well. Another says it sands easily. The colour is white.
Lifreer's 12 named colours offer the widest ready-to-mix palette in this comparison for furniture and laminate touch-ups. The 4.2 rating from 3,661 reviews looks reassuring at first, and shades from white and oak to walnut, teak and mahogany give you several starting points. The listing itself is unreliable, however: it claims 500 g while also giving dimensions of only 2 × 2 × 2 cm, and the included-components field does not confirm an applicator. Reviewers say matching takes trial and error, while some describe the colours as paint-like and poor at filling. At £16.99, it costs considerably more than the four-colour Cncedi set. Buy it for palette breadth only if you accept uncertain consistency and listing details.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Cosmetic colour blending across several indoor furniture shades
Less suitable: Deep chips, structural repairs or shoppers who need dependable pack specifications
Specifications
Common questions
How many colours are named?
Twelve: white, light grey, black, oak, walnut, red cherry, yellow maple, deep pine, white maple, teak, dalbergia and mahogany. Reviews say matching is trial and error.
Is an applicator listed?
Included components say laminate floor repair filler only. A question on the listing asks about an applicator. The answer is not a separate yes.
Why do the dimensions look wrong?
Item weight is 500 g and product dimensions are 2 x 2 x 2 cm. A bullet also talks about writing and classrooms. Reviews say some colours act like paint and do not fill.
Grain Guard's four white-wood wax sticks are designed to fill chips and scratches without sanding or repainting the whole surface. You press the wax into the mark, scrape it level and buff, making the kit more convenient than paste on an already finished interior surface. The 4.2 rating from 884 reviews gives it a much firmer evidence base than the cheaper 12-stick set. This listing is specifically the white-wood pack, despite the bullets mentioning a wider five-shade range, so it is a poor choice for dark walnut or mahogany. The maker claims no shrinkage, but at least one review says the wax shrank and came out. It is the more credible simple wax option here, provided the pale shade and cosmetic nature of the repair suit the job.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Pale furniture, veneer and laminate with small indoor chips or scratches
Less suitable: Dark timber, exterior damage or areas needing a durable rebuild
Specifications
Common questions
Does this pack include several wood shades?
This listing is White Wood, four sticks of 40 mm and a scraper. The bullets name five shade names as a range. They are not listed as the contents of this pack.
Do you sand it?
The bullets say press the wax in, scrape it flush and buff. They say sanding and painting are not required, and that it does not shrink. One review says the wax shrank and came out.
Which surfaces are named?
The compatible-material field says wood, laminate, plastic and painted surfaces. Bullets add hardwood, engineered wood, MDF, chipboard and veneer.
The easyputty kit combines 270 g of paste with a scraper and two pieces of sandpaper, so it includes the basic tools for a sanded repair. The listing says the dried filler can be painted, stained or varnished and claims both interior and exterior use. That sounds versatile, but the colour field is Black while some reviews discuss an oak shade, making the exact variant unusually important. Reviewers also report a lighter-than-expected oak result and shrinkage in a floor scratch, both relevant warnings for visible work. At 4.0 from 339 reviews, the feedback is adequate rather than outstanding. It suits a prepared paint-grade job better than a precision colour match bought from the listing title alone.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Paint-grade furniture, cabinet and door repairs where the exact colour is confirmed
Less suitable: Natural oak matching or floor scratches exposed to regular wear
Specifications
Common questions
What is in the box?
Wood filler, a scraper and two sandpapers. Item weight is 270 g. Colour field is Black.
Does the listing say you can stain it?
The bullets say it dries hard and can be sanded, painted, stained or varnished. The listing does not say it is waterproof. Interior and exterior use is claimed.
Will it match oak?
The colour field is Black. Reviews mention an oak shade that was lighter than expected and a fill that shrank on a floor scratch. Oak is not the colour field.
This heated kit is the specialist choice for grey laminate, vinyl, LVT and wood surfaces where cold wax sticks do not provide enough control. It combines 11 wax shades, eight dual-tip markers and a three-setting USB pen, letting you mix a closer grey and cool the fill in a listed three to five seconds. That breadth is useful for patterned modern flooring, but the £22.99 price is the highest in the comparison. The pen tip is listed as reaching 450 °C, so careful handling and strict separation from children are essential. A 4.0 rating from 302 reviews is reasonable, though not strong enough to overlook the material-field conflict between resin and hard wax. Choose it for repeated grey touch-ups, not for a single simple scratch or a load-bearing repair.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Repeated cosmetic repairs on grey laminate, LVT, vinyl and finished wood
Less suitable: Occasional low-cost touch-ups, exterior timber or structural holes
Specifications
Common questions
How hot does the pen get?
The safety bullet says the tip can reach 450 °C. Do not touch the tip, charge it fully first, and keep it away from children while it is on. Three heat settings are listed.
What colours are included?
Eleven hard waxes, with fashion grey, ink grey, space grey, elegant grey, warm white and off-white named, plus eight dual-tip markers. Pack weight is 390 g.
Does the listing limit delivery?
The listing says some products cannot be delivered outside mainland UK. Bullets name laminate, vinyl, parquet, hardwood and LVT.
This 12-stick set gives you wax, a scraper and masking tape for concealing shallow marks in finished wood or laminate. For a deeper chip, the listing suggests melting wax into the recess and scraping it flush, while a light scratch can be rubbed over directly. The broad colour selection could be useful, but the listing does not name the shades, so judging the match before purchase is difficult. Its 3.5 rating comes from only seven reviews, with just two review texts available, which is much weaker evidence than the established products in this comparison. Wax also creates a cosmetic surface repair rather than a sandable or screw-holding plug. The pack is inexpensive, but it carries more uncertainty than the Grain Guard option.
Pros
Cons
Best for: Low-cost experimentation on small indoor scratches and chips
Less suitable: Walked floor damage, screw holes or any repair that needs sanding
Specifications
Common questions
How many wax sticks are listed?
Twelve sticks, each about 10.9 cm by 1.3 cm, plus a plastic scraper with spare blades and masking tape. Pack weight is 260 g.
Does the listing say it works on laminate?
The bullets name laminate flooring, wood floors, furniture and nail holes. Named colours are not listed. The star line is 3.5 from 7 reviews, and only two of those reviews have written text.
How are deep holes filled?
The bullets say draw over shallow scratches and melt the stick with a lighter for a deeper hole, then scrape.
We compared ten amazon.co.uk listings kept for this wood putty set: pastes, wax sticks, colour kits and epoxy. Shelf prices, stars and review counts are the UK listing figures. The 0–100 score on each card is the star rating multiplied by 20, so 4.7 becomes 94. It is not a laboratory result. Conflicting weights, colours or materials stay on the card. A very low review count, or reviews that mostly concern non-wood jobs, lowers confidence in the recommendation even when the number stays that star conversion.
Amazon star rating
100%The whole 0–100 score is the amazon.co.uk star rating multiplied by 20. Milliput at 4.7 scores 94. Everbuild at 4.5 scores 90. The 12-stick wax set at 3.5 scores 70. Review volume does not change that number. It is stated beside the stars so you can judge the evidence.
Wood putty on these ten amazon.co.uk listings means a paste you sand, a wax you scrape, a colour cream, or an epoxy you knead. Read the job before the star line. Depth, the next finish, and whether anyone will walk on the repair decide the tub. Prices and review counts are listing figures. There is no laboratory test.
Wood putty on this shelf is four chemistries. Ready-mixed paste (Everbuild, about £4.69, 4.5 from 9,188 reviews; easyputty, about £7.99, 4.0 from 339, colour field Black; Mollor white, 150 g, about £9.99, 4.3 from 211) is for a hole you will sand, then paint or stain.
Everbuild’s sheet limits one coat to 5 mm. Mollor’s bullets say a large fill may sink, so you add another layer after drying. A single deep scoop is how a ready-mixed paste fails.
Everbuild says the paste may dry darker and that you should match the wood, not the stain. A stainable label does not mean the repair disappears under the same stain as the oak.
Wax hides a scratch in a finished film. It is the wrong material if you still need to sand the repair flat or drive a screw into it. Under-mixed epoxy fails the screw job in the same way.
Start with the job. Sand and paint or stain points to paste or epoxy. Hiding a scratch in a film points to wax. Holding a screw points to fully mixed epoxy, drilled only after cure. KwikWood is the listing aimed at stripped screw holes. Milliput bonds wood and is a general epoxy, yellow/grey, ranked in Sealers. Depth is the second cut. Everbuild and Ronseal multi-purpose, the latter not in this set, are about 5 mm per layer. Deeper holes need layers or a two-part.
Interior paint-grade skirting tolerates a white or light paste. A walked laminate floor needs a wax concealment and will not gain a new wear layer. Exterior sills need dry, sound timber first. Everbuild asks for at least 5 hours’ protection from rain and says not to apply below 5 °C. A filler does not cure wet rot. Read stars against the job. Everbuild’s 9,188 reviews describe a small tub. Seven reviews on a £7.59 wax set are not the same evidence.
Three typical situations, each with a recommendation from this comparison.
You are filling nail holes, cracks or small imperfections in skirting or furniture, then sanding and painting or stain-testing. Everbuild light stainable is 250 ml at about £4.69, with 4.5 from 9,188 reviews. One coat is limited to 5 mm. It is sandable in about 30 minutes at 20 °C.
You want to hide a chip or scratch in pale finished wood, veneer or laminate without sanding the film. Grain Guard white wood wax is four sticks at about £9.99, with 4.2 from 884 reviews. Press, scrape and buff. It is not a screw-holding repair, and this pack is the white-wood shade.
A hinge or screw hole needs a hard rebuild. J-B Weld KwikWood is the listing aimed at that job, at about £4.03, with 4.3 from 374 reviews. Knead it, use the 15–25 minute setting window, and wait for the stated one-hour cure before you drill. Mix both parts. Wear gloves.
The top pick is Milliput Standard, yellow/grey, 120 g, at about £5.24. It has 4.7 from 793 amazon.co.uk reviews, the highest star line in this set, so the score is 94. It is a general epoxy that bonds wood, not a stain-matching filler, and the listing is ranked in Sealers. The best value is Everbuild light stainable, 250 ml, at about £4.69, with 4.5 from 9,188 reviews, a 5 mm coat limit and sanding in about 30 minutes at 20 °C. The scores rank listings inside this set. They are not a laboratory test.
Milliput Standard, yellow/grey
Highest score in this set, 94, from 4.7 stars on amazon.co.uk. It is a general epoxy, not a stain-match filler.
Everbuild light stainable, 250 ml
About £4.69 for 250 ml, with 4.5 from 9,188 reviews and a stated 30-minute sanding time for shallow repairs.
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