Laminate Floor Chip Repair Specialist London & South East
Diamond Gleam are experts in laminate floor chip repair, crack repairs and scratch repairs.
Repairing laminate floors are similar to other floor repairs in that the level and contour need to be restored, then the colours made and their pattern replicated.
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We can also repair the enamel on Agas and other cookers. A floor laminate floor repair looks good and allows the eye to sweep over the area without it sticking on the damaged area but like all repairs if you get down on your hands and knees and study it by reflecting a source of light over it you may be able to pick out some change of character in the surface – but this is not the way a floor is looked at in normal use and what we are able to do is to make the damage distraction free when you walk around normally.
We can do:
- laminate floor repair
- laminate floor chip repair
- laminate floor scratch repair
- laminate countertop repair
- Hardwood Repairs
Laminate Floor Chip Repair full step by step procedure:
The first action that is needed is to build up the individual colours that are needed for the section that is damaged based on the spectrum of colours that exist on the surface which is not damaged.
This will usually require making several independent colours simultaneously and tinting and adjusting each which makes numerous sample trails over a section of the material you are matching.
These trails of samples do not harm the original surface because at this point it’s just pigment; the material is neither catalysed to go hard or bonded so that it sticks to the surface so wipes off without a trace when all the colours present in the material have been made.
Perception, judgement, experience, skill and a deftness of touch are required of the operator at this point.
The second action of the repair is to prep the original surface so that it will accept a bond with the new material. There is no point in going to considerable lengths to reconstruct a part of something if it falls out later – which we guarantee against just in case you are concerned.
There are many repairs that I have done where the area of the repair is actually stronger than the original, sometimes because it needs to be if the structural integrity has been compromised by whatever damaged it.
Perception, judgement, experience, skill and a deftness of touch are required of the operator at this point.
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The next step is to replicate the form of the surface which means to rebuild the area that has been chipped with something that is as hard as the original.
Sometimes it is best to incorporate the pigments into the filling compound; sometimes it is better to rebuild the area with filling compound and then, when it’s been faired to match the original contour, the colours are layered up.
This filling and fairing step may need to be repeated more than once or even several times in order to recreate a flawless reconstruction of the base material.
Perception, judgement, experience, skill and a deftness of touch are required of the operator at this point.
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The next step, if one has not built the pigment into the filler, is to layer up the various colours into a similar pattern to the original in the area you are repairing.
You really have to be a bit an artist to do this well. Patience is a necessity as you just have to keep going until you get to the sweet spot where you know that one more adjustment will be too much and you will have to start again. Many repairs go like this so you have to have the patience to keep at it but know when it’s as good as it’s going to get.
When I get to a point that I don’t think I can improve on and think I might go backwards I confer with the client to make sure the result is fully acceptable to them before risking over-repairing.
As you can see it’s a complex procedure requiring many different materials and good judgment and an artistic touch.
Clients are impressed with our results.
The last laminate floor I repaired happened to be a really cheap floor.
It was a new build property and I think they had run out of money. Normally a laminate floor has actual real wood on the top laminate but this was like a print on MDF!
I actually didn’t like doing the job because it was so unsatisfying making something look right that intrinsically wasn’t right in the first place.
Anyway that’s the way work goes – you never know what you are going to be asked to do, where it is or the circumstances.
What’s important is that you rise to each occasion and get the end result the client is looking for.
In this case the properties had been sold and the builder just needed to honour their after sale guarantee which we could do for them.
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