2006-09-26 04:33:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
If it's laminate you have to throw it out.
If its hardwood, you can remove it, dry it out in a warm room and then relay it.
2006-09-26 04:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by 'Dr Greene' 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it's laminate flooring, i.e.: not real hardwood, but the pressboard stuff, there's really nothing you can do. Once you get water under laminate wood flooring, you pretty much have to rip it up and hope you can find the same color, tongue and groove pattern, length and width of new flooring. I imagine it's the same with real hardwood floors. You have to take up all the flooring area that got water underneath it. Otherwise, it will rot and get moldy and mildew-y from the bottom all the way through, and you really don't want to be breathing that stuff in. Once you rip up all that got wet, find the matching product, and re-install it after you get the water up from the subfloor. Or you can do like we did when our drain backed up and water got under our laminate flooring... put down a tile floor where you're most likely to get water leaks and if you lay it, grout it, and seal it properly, you'll never have to worry about water damage again.
2006-09-26 11:44:15 · answer #2 · answered by j.f. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends if its click flooring or the glued type if its click then your best taking it up to dry off underneath it just unclicks then lay it flat if its glue u will be unable to put it back together one you have taken it up i.e be u need to dry the area out underneath the flooring asap as day by day the water begins to smell and it does smell
2006-09-26 11:44:54 · answer #3 · answered by karen m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
remove the old flooring and add new wood to it
2006-09-26 11:40:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm guessing you'd have to dry it out, try leaving the windows open to let some air in but if it goes out of shape i'd imagine theres not alot you could do, sorry not much help.
2006-09-26 11:41:19 · answer #5 · answered by sophie-star 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's a small spot, you can hand sand it and refinsh. IF it covers a large area you probably have to machine Sand and refinish.
2006-09-26 11:44:29 · answer #6 · answered by old man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
water underneath will rot....and must be removed..no simple alternative...
2006-09-30 11:20:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't., once damaged thats it.
Do you not have household insurance ?
2006-09-27 06:18:42 · answer #8 · answered by xenon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋