How To Fix Broken Laminate Flooring

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.

How to fix broken laminate flooring.

Clean the flooring with the solvent and let it dry. When a board sustains damage in the middle of a laminate floor you have two options for replacing it. Apply a few drops of laminate flooring glue on the back of the transition strip. The repair process is basically the same.

Don t try to fill the entire chip in one application. One is to disassemble the floor down to the damaged board replace the board and reassemble. Use a hammer and chisel or putty knife to remove baseboards or molding near the damaged boards. Then press a shallow layer into the chip.

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. 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. Then lift out the damaged board and replace it with a new one.

Laminate floor buckling like lifting can be caused by changes in temperature and humidity levels. Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar. In this video i am will show you how to fix a chip in laminate flooring without cutting or creating any sort of dust. Clean off any excess with solvent.