One is to disassemble the floor down to the damaged board replace the board and reassemble.
How to replace damaged laminate flooring planks.
If your laminate floor is glued together the unsnapping routine won t work at all.
Fix the replacement laminate plank immediately before the glue dries up.
But trust us if the damaged section is more than a few rows out from the wall it s actually faster to just cut it out.
You will want to be as close as possible to the plank end joints.
Replace the baseboards and you re done.
Use the same procedure to remove all the planks in the first row and then keep going until you reach the damaged one.
Drill two or three more holes on each side of the damaged laminate plank approximately 4 to 5 from each other.
That works if the damaged plank is close to the wall.
This is the easy way to replace a damaged laminate floor plank.
Place a heavy weight on the plank for 24 hours as that is how long the glue takes to dry and bind the plank in place.
Just remember to follow the steps correctly and you should not have a problem.
When a board sustains damage in the middle of a laminate floor you have two options for replacing it.