Repairing laminate after water damage

What you need:

• 1 x circular saw
• 1 x screwdriver
• 1 x drawing die
• 1 x bat
• 1 x wood glue
• 1 x hammer
• 1 x laminate
• 1 x impact sound insulation

The water damage is properly exposed

After suffering water damage, you can use the following guide to help get your Laminate to repair.

1. Since you have suffered water damage from above, you will of course have located the leak quickly and can contact the directly Repair kick off. Unscrew your countertop and remove any electrical appliances and kitchen cabinets that are in the way. You should now see the area in front of you where the water ran under the laminate and was damaged as a result.
2. Since there is no way to replace small strips of the laminate, you have to remove the entire laminate from the affected area to the next wall. So that you don't have to pull out one row after the other, take your small circular saw and cut through the laminate once. You can now easily remove and dispose of the damaged part.
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3. After you have removed the laminate, you should remove the impact sound insulation from the affected area. You should now see the wet spot on the concrete floor. This area should be completely drained. For this purpose, you should put a small electric oven. Or you can just let it dry in the fresh air.

Repair the laminate

1. Now that the concrete floor has really dried out again, cover the floor completely with impact sound insulation. Repairing the laminate means laying new strips of laminate. Of course, as soon as you discovered the water damage, you bought new laminate in sufficient quantities at your trusted hardware store. You will now lay this with the help of a pulling iron and a hammer.


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2. Unlike with normal laying, you now use some wood glue for each strip of laminate that is pushed together, which you apply between the tongue and groove of the individual laminate strips. When you have laid the laminate in the whole room in this way, the repair of your water damage is complete. You can put the kitchen furniture back in its place.

When working with the circular saw, you should wear protective goggles.