How to Fix a Bent or Raised Up Edge on your Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- If you hit the side edge of your luxury vinyl plank (LVP) flooring too hard or too much during installation, you can cause the edge to bend or raise up. A heat gun can be used to fix or reduce the raised up edge.
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My uncle has a company that manufactures laminate floors in India.
He said put a towel over it and use an iron on low setting
Tried that, it does not work and my bathroom door still sticks on a board. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Rookie move to use a tapping block.. use a scrap piece upside down, put it in the groove, then hit it with a regular hammer
Thanks a zillion. Been obsessing over one edge of a kitchen vinyl tile doing this same thing. This is working, but may take a few more heatings…Already looks better.
If your mallet or tapping block is causing damage during installation, try using a short scrap to tap on. It needs to fit the joint of the end or side you’re tapping. This distributes the load so it’s not concentrated to damaging levels of stress
I would squirt some gorilla glue under the flap first and put a weight on it for a few hours or overnight. It will stay down.
i had an area in my kitchen where a couple boards had lifted a little from getting wet I fixed it by running a small fan on it for a couple of nights and putting a little canvas bag half full of silica gel desiccant (for flowers.) laid across the area at the same time.
That's a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting. I steamed my floor because it said it was safe but no some planks got loose edges now. Didn't think that warming up the plastic layer again to glue it back down could help. I might try vinyl glue though if this trick doesn't work.
if heat from.dryer make it move what abiut the electric heat under it will get damaged????
Hi, it's surprising how little information is available on fixing a seemingly simple amount of damage. My house is less than a year old and LVP throughout. I live in Jacksonville NC and it is extremely humid. I can't say that is the cause because I mop quite a bit. I use a barely damp dry mop but also have 5 Jack Russells and have gone through puppy stages, I'm sure you know how much cleanup there is. I have a heat gun but haven't tried it yet. The problem I have seems to be from moisture and looks like when particle board gets wet. It's not the whole board, there's just lips bulging up in certain spots. It's been a bit since you put this video up and I'm curious how you made out in the end, maybe some extra tips. Thank you!
It's hard to believe my video is now 4 years old. What I can add is that my flooring is still looking good and the raised up lip is still fixed from the heat gun treatment. I'll add that the original issue was definitely my fault during installation. But anyway. We do mop and clean our floors often and we haven't had any ongoing issue. But my LVP brand is Flooret and they use a rubber backing on their boards. I recall that some of the LVP I looked at had a cork backing, and if that got wet or damp, it would likely expand. So for anyone still shopping LVP, I would stay away from any flooring that has a cork (wood) backing.
So I tried this and the lip popped backed up after a day or so. We have lifeproof vinyl flooring. Yours stayed put?
What causes the vinyl plank to have a raised lip?
I’ve got just a few that are doing this exact same thing.
I used a heat gun and pushed them back down and the laid right back down and and set back right in place with no visible difference in space than any others that didn’t raise up.
I thought maybe the plank had expanded but it doesn’t seem to be the issue as it laid back down just like a correctly installed plank. It’s been almost a year and now all of a sudden just a couple of different planks are doing this.
Also it’s laying flat with no give or depressions underneath it.
In my case, I damaged the flooring by hitting the edge too hard and/or not at a perfect perpendicular angle. Maybe when there's some damage like that, for some brands of LVP, it might come back?
@@nicein2000 I worked the flooring from left to right and the raised lip is on the opposite end or on the right where there it wouldn’t have been hit or tapped
For me it was steaming the floor. Bad idea.
Thanks, im going to give it a shot
how do fix the same problem with laminates?
sledge hammer
Sorry if this is novice question but does this method work on click and lock or just glued down vinyl flooring ?
I used it on click and lock vinyl flooring.
Thanks for this - better than gluing
Never use tapping block. Always use pieces of flooring to tap.
Tapping blocks suck, and scrap flooring breaks apart too easy. Use your speed square...
Thank you for this video!
Great tip, thanks!
The first person I ever saw with thumbs that bend like mine.
It is pretty rare, and tends to freak people out a bit, right? Lol.
There are dozens of us, dozens!
We had Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring installed one year ago, and it is coming apart in every room in our house. I installed Pergo Laminate 16 years ago, and it was like brand new when we had it ripped up. The only reason we wanted to change, was, the Pergo was very dark colored, and showed every speck of dust. My wife and I after speaking with several people decided we should go with the Vinyl Planks, and we both regret doing so. We are now waiting on the installer, and the manufacturer to get back with us, to see if what is written on every box, “Lifetime Residential Warranty”, is a true statement, or are we going to get, pardon my French, SCREWED. To sum up what I’m venting about, stay away from Vinyl Plank Flooring!!
It depends on the design of the locking mechanism of the planks. When we were shopping for LVP, we saw quite a variety of different designs for how the planks fitted and locked together. Some definitely looked inferior. The Monet brand is holding up well for us.
@@nicein20001 You are absolutely right. That is why we went with what we were told by the professional installer, who’s been in the industry for 30 plus years, that what we went with, has an interlocking beveled system, that makes it 100% waterproof. This stuff sure isn’t waterproof now, the way it’s popping apart. A representative from the manufacturer came a few weeks ago and said they may want to send a sample of this flooring away to the lab, because he thinks it’s a bad batch. This man said he’s 76yrs old, and has been in the flooring industry for 49yrs. He should know a little something about flooring, at least I’d hope so.
@@nicein20001 Glad your flooring is doing well! Wish we could say the same.
Will this work with raising due to some water damage?
My toddler played in the dog bowl and water lifted the edges of some boards of about 6 boards.
@@piratepilfer Yeah, I think it's definitely worth a try. All of this LVP is vinyl, which will get soft and pliable with heat. If it were me, I'd experiment with either a leftover spare piece of flooring, or with a spot that is inconspicuous, to figure out how much heat will work with your brand of LVP, without melting it or disfiguring it.
A decent idea - I'll give it a shot - thx.
Hi, Is this plank glued to the ground or is it a floating one?
I'm guessing click lock since he mentioned hammering and blocks.
All theses floors are floating you lay down a moisture barrier like a carpet underlay some these floors on the back of the planks have that attached some don’t. You lay a plank down each plank has a tung and grove and you just hit them together they lock in and at the wall you leave small gap for expansion since it’s wood and will expand in temperature changes and the trim usually keeps it flat a secured no glue required
How has this fix held up over time?
It has held up well. No changes.
Great video thank you!
Yes, great video, thanks!
How to fix on the side UP ward Not on the edge
I have a similar problem but in this case the click part looks like if is already cracked or bent
what could be the problem?
it could be a factory manufactured??
That sounds like a defect on that particular board or piece. I doubt if heating it up would help.
I had this issue I just hammered some nails down nobody's gonna notice unless they look really close
Lmao 😆
@@yionnecantu work smart not hard 😅
You can also rebuild an engine on your dining table.
Guess it doesnt work on laminate?
I don't know but if you have a spare (junk) piece of laminate, you could test by applying a heat gun to it to see if it's safe and makes it soft and pliable.
Can you please repeat the tool name? Thanks
I used a $20 heat gun that I bought from Harbor Freight.
I got the CoreLuxe rigid vinyl planks. My rocking chair has a 4 foot circle of the flooring destroyed in 2 weeks. Don't ever move your couch, chairs, don't get a rock under your shoe, heck, don't even walk on the stuff or you'll absolutely ruin it in no time. It's more of a single use, disposable product. Lay it down, walk on it once, then replace it the next week. Not happy with this garbage. Total ripoff. If plan on ever occupying your home, DON'T BUY CoreLuxe rigid vinyl plank flooring. You'd literally be better off covering your floor with the money you'd spend on vinyl.
Thank you for sharing. For other readers, you'll definitely get what you pay for. Don't skimp on LVP when it comes to price and quality. My Flooret LVP continues to hold up very well, four years later.
Buy Shaw or mowhawk if you want quality
The background music is too loud. I am having a hard time hearing the voice narration.
Sorry about that. The music fades out after 20 seconds
thank you. actually, engineered wood is not as good as hardwood or even laminated
Your thumb is broken.
Omg it is
Appears the ligaments in his thumbs are stretched - prolonged - poor ergonomics. Always press with thumbs & fingers either flat or straight.
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Anyone else notice the deflection of the plank as he pushed on it? I suspect the floor is not in that area is not flat either.
You have a great eye! While the edge of my plank got messed up from me being too aggressive with the hammer, I did have an area of my floor that wasn't perfectly flat/level. I debated for a long time on how to deal with that, as the strong recommendation is to have as nearly a perfectly flat subfloor as possible. Other than a few bent up edges, my end result turned out well.
This stuff is rubbish luxury or not if you have an old house do not put it down ..it lifts due to uneven flooring
I definitely agree that vinyl plank flooring should not be used on uneven subfloors. It's really not designed for that situation.
Luxury Vinyl sounds like an oxymoron. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The heat gun is louder than your voice lol.
The very definition of oxymoron: “luxury vinyl plank”.
Nice try but not
Yeah that will not fly🤣
Just do it right from the beginning.
What? That looks like turd. Lol
It didn’t even get fixed lol
All that money to do flooring and you mess up a piece and not replace it at the time is total shitty craftsmanship and then to go buy a $20 to fix your ratty job lol.... Then I listen I wouldn't do any shitty working someone else's home let alone my own house but there's people that do work in their own house and I cry about it when people poke at it when they go to sell their house.
My my, someone has a stick up their butt today
@@nicein2000 probably every day!
LVP is good for basement applications. You are too easily riled up if this is what upsets you.
You can’t fix that that’s a band aid
Sorry but I didn’t see any difference whatsoever