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I was cruising around looking for a topic on repairing luxury vinyl floors. I personally am a big fan of hard wood and repairing or making a patch is pretty simple. I did an install for a customer who was convinced this luxury vinyl is way better than hard wood.

So here I am 2 months later and I get a phone call that there is a chip out of one of the planks. I go over and look at it and it would appear something was dropped on a seam and chipped up the vinyl.

The big question is if it can be replaced without taking up half the floor. The chip is just about middle of the room so it would mean taking up about 14 feet of floor to replace one plank and then put everything back in including the base and shoe, or in some cases the toe kick and shoe.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

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Joints aren't glued. No picture. Didn't take one while I was there last. The spot is only probably a 1/2 inch but you can see the plank. It took the "wood texture" off. If that makes sense.

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If it's small enough you might be able to just patch it. Depends on the pattern/texture. Pergo makes a pretty good wax patch kit. That kind of thing works better on heavy grain/texture(oak, distressed, hickory) than on really consistent floors(maple).
 
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EthanB said:
If it's small enough you might be able to just patch it. Depends on the pattern/texture. Pergo makes a pretty good wax patch kit. That kind of thing works better on heavy grain/texture(oak, distressed, hickory) than on really consistent floors(maple).
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This one is an oak pattern. Where do you get the kit from?

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FF_Barry said:
This one is an oak pattern. Where do you get the kit from?

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Search for pergo repair kit. I'm not sure it's the best option for vinyl but I think it would work well for smaller chips or scratches. You could also probably use the Mohawk hard fill products. I'm more familiar with that stuff. You can either order it by the piece or as a kit.
 
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EthanB said:
Search for pergo repair kit. I'm not sure it's the best option for vinyl but I think it would work well for smaller chips or scratches. You could also probably use the Mohawk hard fill products. I'm more familiar with that stuff. You can either order it by the piece or as a kit.
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Awesome! Thanks for the help I will give it a shot. The chip is probably smaller than a dime so I'm going to give that a shot first. If I don't have luck I'll go to the next repair being a cut and glued piece. Last resort I'll pull up the floor and replace the piece.

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Dan_Watson said:
Its a plank? Cant you just replace the piece?
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I guess the question was more or less how to replace a plank. From other places I read they said pull up the floor until you get to that piece and then replace it and put the floor back down. I do believe some one wrote back saying I can basically treat it like hardwood and cut the piece out take off the tongue of the new piece and then glue it back down.

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Assuming it's a floating luxury vinyl plank (like Coretec Plus), the only way to remove and replace the plank would be to carefully go from the ends to the middle (might have to attack from both directions) and try not to break the locking mechanism. I'm sure some will break so would only do this if they have a lot on hand.

In terms of avoiding this and trying to repair a section, I'm not sure if possible/how good it would look but the way I would first try it would be to use a leftover plank and cut out a section of vinyl as that would be a better match than laminate or putty. Not sure how easy that is to do given that they're glued together tightly.

If it's in middle of the floor, a much simpler (and less expensive solution) for them is to get an area rug.

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