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Carpets, Lino & Flooring

1 piece of laminate won't lay flat

Anonymous user 16/03/2024 - 2.49 PM

I will keep it short; 1 piece of laminate keeps coming up at the corner where it locks into 2 seperate laminate pieces. The bottom right hand corner where you hook it onto the row you just laid and then snaps onto place to the neighbouring laminate piece. Every other piece sits fine on the floor, but this one piece will not sit flat and its starting to rip up the hook that this piece has as there is stress on the piece. I do have pictures of it, but this post won't let me add them. Any suggestions?

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4 Answers

421 Group Limited

Rating: 5 out of 5
Doncaster
This could be a number of things: There's a stone or nail etc under the floor that's popping it up. The floor has split through the center slightly causing the corner to lift up Some fast fit laminate flooring have plastic strips in the header joints, these sometimes come out of place and stick forwards slightly, stopping the neighboring from clicking down there is something inside the clicking tongue and groove which is stopping it going down The only right way to solve this problem would be to take up the floor to that point, investigate and possibly replace a plank or two. If you try and use wood glue/ super glue chances are it'll only temporarily fix it/ make it look worse/ make it harder to fix and repair properly.
Answered9 March 2023
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Suffolk floor sanding ltd

Rating: 5 out of 5
Stowmarket
One of the planks is damaged on the lock system by the sounds of it use a different board
Answered9 March 2023
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Fixtrope Construction Ltd

Rating: 5 out of 5
Chessington
Hi,unfortunately you need to replace floor board . Thanks
Answered9 March 2023
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SC FLOORING

Rating: 4.9 out of 5
Liverpool
It will probably be that there is a slight separation fault (splitting)on the header (smaller) joint or the laminate board is not perfectly square. Another option could be that there is some debris stopping the board from locking in properly.
Answered9 March 2023
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