Tearing Up Laminate Flooring

Carefully pry away baseboards and molding from the wall and pry thresholds up from any doorways with a pry bar.

Tearing up laminate flooring.

How to remove laminate flooring step by step. The process to remove laminate flooring is a straightforward. 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. Individual pieces snap and lock together to prevent shifting.

That may soften the glue enough to separate them. Then lift out the damaged board and replace it with a new one. Start at the side closest to the damaged board or boards. Newer generation laminate flooring is not attached to the subfloor and can be reused if removed carefully.

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