Patch Up Big Hole In Vinyl Sheet Flooring

Apply vinyl flooring adhesive to the subfloor.

Patch up big hole in vinyl sheet flooring.

If you have vinyl bubbles use a utility knife to make a cut straight down the length of each bubble. Fortunately repairing vinyl flooring is easy and requires little more than a utility knife. Place the vinyl flooring patch in the hole. Sheet vinyl has far fewer seams than tile so when it comes to making a patch it can be a little trickier than replacing a single tile.

The filler and floor bond level the hole flush with the rest of the floor. Install vinyl flooring in a laundry room. Knowing how to repair vinyl sheet flooring is an inexpensive way to improve the look of your floor. Be in the know.

Here s where you begin. Hold the floor bond right over the filler powder. Repair vinyl sheet flooring when it suffers damage in high activity kitchens and baths and other areas. Rigid core luxury vinyl tile engineered tile vinyl.

If you are installing the vinyl flooring in a small area and can t build up the floor with a 1 4 inch plywood substrate even out the low areas with a self leveling floor compound. Obviously the best patch is a piece of the original flooring material and one that gives you a chance to make an unnoticeable repair. Pull up the damaged section of vinyl flooring. Slowly drip the bond onto the filler powder until the powder is saturated it ll only take three or four drops to cover a dime size area.

Cut a repair patch the same size as the hole from a scrap of vinyl flooring. Get tips on how to patch vinyl flooring with the help of armstrong flooring experts. Remove any adhesive on the subfloor. Repairing vinyl flooring is a quick way to fix your tiles without redoing your flooring.

We ll cover the techniques for replacing sheet vinyl and vinyl tile the two major varieties of vinyl floor. Using a steady back and forth motion warm the. By james carey morris carey. How you repair vinyl flooring depends on what kind you have and how it s damaged.

Listen to bob vila on repairing torn vinyl flooring or read the text below. Plug in a hair dryer and switch it to the medium setting. You don t need to replace the whole floor just patch the damaged section. Let the compound harden for 15 minutes.

Remove any excess glue from the floor using the solvent recommended on the adhesive container.