How To Repair Laminate Furniture

Start the repair by putting on utility gloves to ensure you don t burn yourself.

How to repair laminate furniture. A laminated piece of furniture uses a very thin covering of a different type of wood or particle board that is stained or finished to look like a more expensive or exotic type of wood. Press on the bubble to allow any excess air to escape through the slit. If it s not a match don t glue. If you do it will be impossible to stain well super difficult.

I know this is a tall order but if one day you could do a tutorial about how to repair laminate furniture chips dents etc that would be fabulous. Look for primer at your local hardware or paint store. Wooden furniture generally comes in two types natural or laminated. Apply the primer using a brush or roller until there s an even coverage on the entire surface of the furniture.

Press the bubbled section down firmly using your gloved hand. Heat the area moving the heat source back and forth to prevent scorching. Use the marker crayon putty or pencil in the kit to fill in the scratch. Apply a high quality latex primer to the furniture s surface.

And even if you decide to paint often the difference in grain makes for a blotchy looking paint job. Repair bubbled wood laminate veneer by flattening it after steaming the laminate material to get it pliable place a damp cloth over the bubbled blistered area. Then cut a slit into the top of the bubble. Small blisters in veneer can usually be flattened with heat.

February 27 2014 at 1 17 pm. Press the blistered area firmly with a medium hot iron. Aim a heat gun or hair dryer at the portion of the laminate that has started to bubble up. A glue repair works best if you have a piece of veneer that s an exactfit and matches up with the existing grain.

If there are several blisters move the iron slowly and evenly back and forth. I know with veneer you can use wood putty but laminate is a bit trickier maude.