Tearing Up Laminate Flooring

For floating floors here s how to make them disappear.

Tearing up laminate flooring.

Newer generation laminate flooring is not attached to the subfloor and can be reused if removed carefully. Individual pieces snap and lock together to prevent shifting. Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar. That may soften the glue enough to separate them.

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. This won t be a long section since as we said this is quite an easy job. 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.

Sometimes called a floating floor the surface floats on a foam cushion on top of the subfloor. If the boards are glued together the easiest way to separate them is to heat the joints with a heat gun. If not you may just have to pull the.