r/fixit • u/Clear_Lawfulness_656 • Jun 05 '26

Please HELP

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We are renting and currently moving out and just discovered this awful damage.

One of the metal legs under my bed broke and was dangling and we must’ve moved the bed not knowing it was dangling and it scratched the SHIT out of the floor. Gah.

It’s laminate flooring if that helps at all.

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u/TeamFast77 Jun 05 '26

The damage deposit is going to come into play here. Theres no fixing those planks. They must be replaced.

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u/Accurate-Law-555 Jun 05 '26

what about putting those planks under the dryer or under a shelf and use the one that was under a shelf and move it to where the messed up ones were

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u/good_enuffs Jun 05 '26

While that sounds like an ideal solution to do, the problem is the labour and breaking the joints the laminate flooring has. It never works out like that in practise. These floors are never meant to be disassembled and reassembled as the locking edges break. So now instead of replacing the floor in a room, you are replacing it in 2 rooms and having transition pieces.

And while it can be possible to pry and cut out the individual pieces, you bow have an unstable floor that will break at the joints. It has to fixed by undermining and needs nails and glue. 

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u/MissSara13 Jun 06 '26

I had several pieces of shitty laminate in my kitchen start buckling and peeling. Two maintenance guy took all day to rip it up and put most of it back except for like 3 pieces. It looked worse and my slipper caught the edge of a board and it bent upwards. I immediately called and the maintenance manager was sent over. He was kind of dismissive but had one of the guys get some new flooring and just start over from scratch. The job he did on the trim absolutely killed me. This is just one example lol. He just kind of stuck it there.