How To Fix And Replace Damaged Laminate, Vinyl Plank (LVP) Engineered Wood Flooring Like A Pro! DIY

on this episode i'm going to be showing you how to fix a damaged plank on your flooring so stay tuned [Music] welcome to fix's house if you're new to the channel please consider pressing the subscribe notification bell so you could always be in tune on diys how-to videos and product reviews that i do within this channel as you can see this area on this vinyl plank flooring has taken a huge hit and huge damage you can see that this is about three inch wide damage so there's no way that we can patch this but we have to replace this whole plank this technique will work on laminate and engineered wood flooring as well i don't guarantee that this will work for every type of floor but just a word of caution i don't know what warranty you have on your flooring but most warranties if you work if you do customization or work on your floor it will probably void it so this is the risk that you might have to take when you're doing this project so just take that into account with that being said let me show you how to lay this out so we can cut off for this area and try to replace this plank only let's go just to give you an example what type of flooring that we're working here is this is a click and lock meaning that there is a locking system when you put these two together and just hammer this or use a mallet also this is a tongue and groove meaning that on the tongue you can place it right underneath the groove and it will snap together like that this is also a floating floor meaning that it's not glued to the floor or nail to the floor it is floating on top of your subfloor so this part is not necessary i just want to indicate which plank we are going to be isolating this will help us determine which one to work on use the straight edge and i'm going to be using a visible sharpie for you friends this doesn't have to be perfect you can just draw a line straight in the middle of this plank you're going to draw like a y you're going to have two angles 45 degree angles going from each edge like so notice right there in the edge i didn't mark all the way to the edge of that just so that we don't mark or right on to the other flooring around this damaged area same thing on this side we didn't go all the way to the edge [Laughter] [Music] when you're using the oscillating tool at the edge be very very careful stay away about a quarter inch and then make your cut from there and then once you make your initial cut go start moving along the edges little by little you don't want to start at the edge right away because this thing will move and it will slide and if it runs you will damage risking damaging the rest surrounding areas this tool right here i'll leave on the description down below get one for yourself this will save your hands and a lot of time so it looks like it bent right here about a quarter inch or eighth inch away from the actual click and lock so i'm just going to use my utility knife and slice the surface uh carefully tap that out take out that extra piece right there [Music] now that we got everything nice and cut this should be the easiest part because all we have to do is lift this out right here [Music] that should pop off like that pretty much right when you get those triangles off on each edge the rest will just pop out like that easy there you have it you have an open area now let's get a new plank here is our replacement piece pretty much it's just a regular plank look in here you on the left side this is where the longer tongue is there's a shorter tongue i'm gonna save the longer tongue and i'm gonna shave off this shorter side using my cut piece right here as my backing we're just gonna follow this be careful don't go too crazy take your time you might want to practice on the scrap piece first before trying it on the initial but you just want to graze this area right here and cut off on the 45 degree so notice how it's just cutting this on the 45 and it's okay if you if it cuts off like that you can want you want to do it by sections and if you you don't want to try to do it all at once especially if you're not familiar just take your time and go on the 45 just like so the most important part thing here is you don't want to go over and chip off the edge right here this is what you want to preserve you have areas that you missed like here i'm going to show you how to relieve that in a bit there you go we got these little strips out of there now we're gonna do some fine tuning flip this over and then you're just gonna shave off the excess right here here's another example right here a little bit raised take your utility knife and just fillet that area so once you flip this over you see that there's no more lip see that is nice and clean and flush [Music] if you see any gray sticking out flip this over again and then fillet that area and smooth it out so before i actually try to test fit this piece on i want to show you the situation that your open area needs to be see this right here this can be this can have a lip on the edge it's fine if it's a little bit damaged this is this flooring is going to go on top of it anyways this right here it still has a little bit of lip the other side has a wider lip okay and then if you go all the way to the edge right here this one has no lip we're gonna do the same thing like we did before we're gonna fillet it make it a 45 cut like so see that just takes a little bit of finesse and though there you go that tongue is gone this there's a little piece that get is getting on the way so we might have to chip off a little bit on this edge right here so let's do that right now let's chip out a little bit there we go see if that will fit boom you can flip this over and again you can filet it on that side same thing here lay it on the edge nice and clean another important thing is make sure you clean up all this chips out of here no interference so that when we lay this new floor there's no bumps i like to use this floor suction tool and a mallet again i'll leave all the materials including this one at the link down below i made a video on how to fix gaps using this check out that video on this the right side we're gonna use the suction cup put it on a new piece and doing this will allow us to move this new piece now underneath it we're just going to test fit it for now it fits real nice go zoom in here fits perfect on that side and it fits perfect on there so the glue that i like to use this is 2p10 it has to be the thick version because it's a lot more it's a lot better there's a thin and a medium kind the thick allows it to pretty much have a lot more volume to compress the two um the tongue and grooves and the areas so use this i'll leave this in the description down below as well but what we're going to do is we're going to lift this up and we are going to apply the glue around here this this tongue and this tongue as well here and a little bit around here once we get that glue on there then we're going to place this and lock it in you got a few a few about a minute or two for this glue to set but you're gonna go and just tuck this in like so and we're gonna tap it in with our mallet boom boom boom and we should be done okay so be very very careful when you're applying the glue once you get that glue in carefully just slide it in put it down take your mallet tap along the edge now what i suggest if you have weights like this place it on top just so that you have weight to make the glue settle and dry once that glue dries and just take it out and you should be having a nice replaced floor [Music] see how nice and flush that is perfect edge edges are nice clean no more damaged floor so friends i hope you found value to this you can do it just take your time use the necessary tools that you need but again the oscillating tool is the perfect tool to removing the old flooring the fastest way use the suction cup use this 2 p10 glue and you should be fine just follow the steps that i showed you on this video make those proper cutouts and hopefully you found value and found this easy to follow if you did please hit that big thumbs up for your for just to support the channel all together and please press the subscribe notification bell i have more flooring videos for your friends thank you so much for tuning in i'll see you next time [Music]

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Keywords: How to fix gaps in flooring, how to fix gaps in vinyl plank flooring, luxury vinyl plank, how to fix gaps in engineered wood, engineered wood, vinyl plank flooring, flooring tips and tricks, hardwood flooring, fix gaps on flooring, floor gaps, home renovation, floor repair, flooring how to, bathroom flooring, flooring gap, house renovation, DIY flooring, How to fix and replace damaged laminate and vinyl plank (LVP) and Engineered wood flooring

Id: QjDZPvf4zVQ

Length: 12min 24sec (744 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 03 2022