Tearing Up Laminate Flooring

That may soften the glue enough to separate them.

Tearing up laminate flooring.

Then lift out the damaged board and replace it with a new one. 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. 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 process to remove laminate flooring is a straightforward. Individual pieces snap and lock together to prevent shifting. 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.

This won t be a long section since as we said this is quite an easy job. How to remove laminate flooring step by step. Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar.