How To Fill The Gaps In Laminate Flooring

Wood glue is highly adhesive meaning you wont have much room for.

How to fill the gaps in laminate flooring. You can then push the 2 boards back together by striking 1 of them at an angle with your fist. Cut some squares and put it in the holes. You should only use just enough to cover the surface and ensure that the holes are filled.

The best option for covering gaps in laminate flooring is by using custom pieces. To close a gap in your laminate flooring all youll need is some wood glue. Only a tiny amount will be needed for each gap.

If the gaps are too large you have to remove the baseboard trims fill the gaps with wood glue and tap the boards with a mallet or a pull bar. Scoop up a glob of wood glue using a small utensil. You should be able to buy some rectangular strips of cork from the shops that sell laminate flooring.

You then close that gap and the next and the next until youve hidden the gap behind the nearest baseboard. I had to do this when I put some flooring up to a banister and had no neat way of putting edging over the space. Any clear or yellow wood glue will work just fine.

This laminate floor was installed in a small town in central Washington state. Make sure you apply glue only in the groove of the laminate and not on the sub-floor. This is a bamboo laminate floor with end joint gaps throughout the living room.

Pick up epoxy on Amazon. Invest in a high-strength adhesive to spare yourself followup repairs in the future. The boards in this picture are affected by small end joint gaps.