How to Fix a Bent or Raised Up Edge on your Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring

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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

realitycheck
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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.

gdubbsmotolife
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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.

justabouthadit
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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

michaell
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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.

annunacky
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This works! After my install, I had one spot where it was raised and of course, in a very visible place. An iron wouldn't do it but I used a 2500-watt heat gun for 30 seconds on high and pressed down with a putty knife until cool, and FIXED! Thanks. The damage came from one piece in which the ends were not directly on top of each other when tapped down. Can't see it now.

jimsteele
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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.

helenarichard
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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

Mars-zgblbl
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Luxury Vinyl sounds like an oxymoron. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Billkwando
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So I tried this and the lip popped backed up after a day or so. We have lifeproof vinyl flooring. Yours stayed put?

leeroybrown
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if heat from.dryer make it move what abiut the electric heat under it will get damaged????

queenystars
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The first person I ever saw with thumbs that bend like mine.

jamelynch
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how do fix the same problem with laminates?

rueG
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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.

chateaumojo
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The heat gun is louder than your voice lol.

DJP
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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!!

gm
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Never use tapping block. Always use pieces of flooring to tap.

mikewhite
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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!

BobbyCaron
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The background music is too loud. I am having a hard time hearing the voice narration.

SkDad
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Sorry if this is novice question but does this method work on click and lock or just glued down vinyl flooring ?

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