How To Fix Broken Laminate Flooring

Use a hammer and chisel or putty knife to remove baseboards or molding near the damaged boards.

How to fix broken laminate flooring.

Apply a few drops of laminate flooring glue on the back of the transition strip. Wipe the strip with a paper towel moistened with water or isopropyl alcohol to remove any dirt or oil on the surface. We will be using a wood wax to fill in. One is to disassemble the floor down to the damaged board replace the board and reassemble.

If spacers were used between the wall and the board closest to it replace them with smaller spacers. Then press a shallow layer into the chip. Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar. When a board sustains damage in the middle of a laminate floor you have two options for replacing it.

Start at the side closest to the damaged board or 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. Don t try to fill the entire chip in one application. Clean off any excess with solvent.

Next squeeze a dollop of laminate repair paste onto a scrap piece of flooring or a mixing board and mix it with a putty knife until it begins to dry. The best way to repair a water damaged laminate floor is to replace the damaged section. Clean the flooring with the solvent and let it dry. In this video i am will show you how to fix a chip in laminate flooring without cutting or creating any sort of dust.