How To Take Up Laminate Flooring
Fri, Jul 11, 2008
Sometimes you need to take up your great laminate flooring and put back again. For example if you want to install heating but laminate flooring is already there. If you wonder what is the best way to do that, continue reading.
If the flooring was fitted after the original skirting boards, you should have an edging strip. You have part of the flooring attached to the bottom of the skirting - remove that! It is normally just fixed onto the skirting with silicon, so run a Stanley blade through the mastic, then gently pull away. Now you should make enough room to start removing the flooring.
If the original skirting was put on after the flooring, than yes, you will have to remove it (normally screwed to the wall). Just lever it off the wall and then replace.
Although sometimes there is a gap around two of the four edges of the laminate flooring. It may be possible to get a large flat head screw driver between the edge of the flooring and the skirting board to pry up the first of the boards.
Once you have the first one up the rest are easy to get up.
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