How To Fix Broken Laminate Flooring

Apply a few drops of laminate flooring glue on the back of the transition strip.

How to fix broken laminate flooring.

We will be using a wood wax to fill in. Clean the flooring with the solvent and let it dry. Then press a shallow layer into the chip. Use a hammer and chisel or putty knife to remove baseboards or molding near the damaged boards.

Wipe the strip with a paper towel moistened with water or isopropyl alcohol to remove any dirt or oil on the surface. Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar. Then lift out the damaged board and replace it with a new one. 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.

When a board sustains damage in the middle of a laminate floor you have two options for replacing it. 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. One is to disassemble the floor down to the damaged board replace the board and reassemble. Start at the side closest to the damaged board or boards.

If spacers were used between the wall and the board closest to it replace them with smaller spacers. 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. Clean off any excess with solvent.