Tearing Up Laminate Flooring

How to remove laminate flooring step by step.

Tearing up laminate flooring.

This won t be a long section since as we said this is quite an easy job. Then lift out the damaged board and replace it with a new one. For floating floors here s how to make them disappear. Newer generation laminate flooring is not attached to the subfloor and can be reused if removed carefully.

The process to remove laminate flooring is a straightforward. The best way to repair a water damaged laminate floor is to replace the damaged section. Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar. Individual pieces snap and lock together to prevent shifting.

If the boards are glued together the easiest way to separate them is to heat the joints with a heat gun. Start at the side closest to the damaged board or boards. Pull up any transition strips or the strips often found in the doorway s to a room covering seams in the flooring between rooms or smooth transition between two flooring types say from.