If you have a few 6 or less planks in the middle of a floor. New construction that need to be replaced. Is it hard to tear out and replace them without affecting the rest of the floor?

Just guessing, but I think you’d have to take an entire row out by cutting it down the middle and removing each half of the planks. Then, I think you’d have to remove the last row of planks that were laid. This would give you room the remove damaged planks from other rows, tap new ones in with a tapping block. Lock the rest of the floor into the new row, and lay the last row again. The planks have to be locked together on all four edges except along the walls of course.

I haven’t had to repair mine, yet.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Just guessing, but I think you’d have to take an entire row out by cutting it down the middle and removing each half of the planks. Then, I think you’d have to remove the last row of planks that were laid. This would give you room the remove damaged planks from other rows, tap new ones in with a tapping block. Lock the rest of the floor into the new row, and lay the last row again. The planks have to be locked together on all four edges except along the walls of course.

I haven’t had to repair mine, yet.

From the LVP I've laid this method would make it difficult to "snap\slide" the last big half back into the newly replaced plank. You kind of have to slip them under from an up angle. I suspect you'd end up with a better result by removing the LVP back through the bad section and then reinstalling it as it was once you replaced the bad section. Having said that you don't have a whole lot to lose trying the method above. Just be careful to not damage any of the connections. It's easy to damage them to where they won't fit together snugly. Lesson I learned the hard way.