Tearing Up Laminate Flooring

For floating floors here s how to make them disappear.

Tearing up laminate flooring.

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. Newer generation laminate flooring is not attached to the subfloor and can be reused if removed carefully. How to remove laminate flooring step by step.

Start at the side closest to the damaged board or boards. Sometimes called a floating floor the surface floats on a foam cushion on top of the subfloor. 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.

If not you may just have to pull the. Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar. This won t be a long section since as we said this is quite an easy job.