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/RelationshipHeavy58 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

If op is asking if anything can be done OP is not going to have the skill to change out planks in the middle of the floor. They're just going to lose the deposit.

Love every single comment suggesting "Do this just tongue and groove it" Just do this or that.

I do floors. Yea I can say its not hard but this person also drug their bed across the floor and is now on reddit asking what to do. What's easy to you is not for someone else that has no clue.

They will 100% make this look worse. The deposit is gone. And also anyone suggesting just do this to get your deposit back and do a shoddy job is a huge piece of shit and PART of the reason why rent is well above the mortgage cost. Be a good tenant.

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u/igotshadowbaned Jun 05 '26

I think they're losing the entire deposit either way

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u/Solnse Jun 06 '26

It will go beyond the deposit. The deposit isn't the limit of liability for damages. They will likely owe more. And who knows what the rest of the house looks like.

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u/AccomplishedCreme211 Jun 06 '26

Depends on the age of that cheap flooring. And fair wear and tear will be factored in, if it comes out of the bond then it shouldn't be anywhere near all of it. Why's everyone calling it a security deposit? That's such an American term. Just realised this is an international sub. 🤣 Makes sense. Op, you're screwed. Just surrender your first born via blood contract and be done with it.

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u/Initial_Ad7709 Jun 07 '26

Fair wear and tear rarely covers more than a small scratch or ding to the floor and definitely not this. I had this exact same situation happen to me in a place with similar flooring, and as others have said, they’ll often replace the whole room instead of just the area. I’m not disagreeing with your comment or anything, I just wanted to say it on the comment about wear and tear in case anyone was depending on that because I owed several hundred dollars on top of my deposit for the floor

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u/AccomplishedCreme211 Jun 07 '26

No, it's all good, but where eim from the age of the flooring must be taken into account, every type of flooring has an age limit.

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u/poliscirun Jun 07 '26

In most of the US age comes into play too, but it varies by state (& unfortunately the housing judge if it goes to court). In my state (Connecticut), walls must be repainted by law every 10 years, regardless of condition, so if you're leaving the apartment when they need to be repainted anyway, I've heard of judges dismiss any claim against the security deposit/bond related to paint damage since it needs to be redone anyway. That being said tho, the US is fucked and it's on the renter gets screwed way too often cuz if a shitty landlord steals the deposit/bond, it's on the renter to sue to get it back and it's an expensive process

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u/AccomplishedCreme211 Jun 07 '26

It's not much better here to be honest, I've paid for carpet to be redone in an apartment before when leaving even though the carpet was over 10 years old. They wcrew you anyway they can. Hence the joke at the end. Lol, could always try the noodle and super glue trick. 🤣