How To Fix Broken Laminate Flooring

Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar.

How to fix broken laminate flooring.

Wipe the strip with a paper towel moistened with water or isopropyl alcohol to remove any dirt or oil on the surface. Clean off any excess with solvent. If spacers were used between the wall and the board closest to it replace them with smaller spacers. Don t try to fill the entire chip in one application.

Clean the flooring with the solvent and let it dry. Then press a shallow layer into the chip. The repair process is basically the same. Apply a few drops of laminate flooring glue on the back of the transition strip.

One is to disassemble the floor down to the damaged board replace the board and reassemble. Laminate floor buckling like lifting can be caused by changes in temperature and humidity levels. In this video i am will show you how to fix a chip in laminate flooring without cutting or creating any sort of dust. When a board sustains damage in the middle of a laminate floor you have two options for replacing it.

Use a hammer and chisel or putty knife to remove baseboards or molding near the damaged boards. You can always repair small damage to your floor with the pergo repair kit but sometimes a board is damaged so badly that it has to be removed from the floor. The best way to repair a water damaged laminate floor is to replace the damaged section. Then lift out the damaged board and replace it with a new one.