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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
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
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
Hi,unfortunately you need to replace floor board . Thanks
Answered9 March 2023
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SC FLOORING
Rating: 4.9 out of 5
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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