Floor covering repair
Stealth by Forest River, 2014 bumper pull. Floor covering torn by chair, (leg cap came off) hole thru the covering about 2" wide. Suggestions please on how to repair and seal.
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I used to do vinyl flooring a lot of years ago and have done numerous repairs as you describe.
Key is to find a piece of the same vinyl sheet goods. Hopefully there is a pattern with lines such as squares.
You get a piece bigger than an individual part of the pattern, or square, rectangle, whatever it happens to be.
Overlay it on top of the damaged piece so it is EXACTLY in the right place. This patch piece is held to the floor so it will not move. Some of that removable sticky rubber glue like that stuff they use to hold a credit card to the letter it comes with when it arrives in the mail, or similar will help. Once in place, take a straightedge and a very sharp utility knife and cut in the center of the lines around the damaged piece, cutting right through both the patch and the flooring. Make sure you do it in one cut only, don't go back over it.
Lift off the patch piece. You now have a patch, the same as original, that will fit exactly in the hole. Don't lose the orientation of it.
Starting from the middle of the damaged piece, peel it up off the floor, taking care not to damage or disturb the cut edge of the remaining floor. Remove all traces of glue, if it is in fact glued down. Be sure it is perfectly clean.
Test your patch out, dry fit it. It should fit perfect. Pull it back out and carefully apply flooring adhesive to the floor, ensuring there is no excess at the edge where it meets the existing floor.
Place patch in hole and thoroughly apply pressure to make sure it sticks to the floor. Using a laminate roller helps here.
If the existing floor is not glued down, you will have to carefully lift the vinyl and glue the area surrounding the patch at the same time as you do the patch.
Once the patch is down, thoroughly clean off any excess glue that may be at the joints. Usually water soluble when wet, a wet rag should work.
There is a special tool and a clear vinyl repair liquid that is used to surface seal the repair cuts. It is a small applicator bottle with a small flat nozzle that you use to apply the surface seal to the cuts. This effectively bonds the to pieces of vinyl together, kind of like melting them a bit to join them. Then no dirt or liquid can get in.
It's been a lot of years since I did this, but in my days of applying vinyl sheet goods, I used to do it frequently.
I used to do vinyl flooring a lot of years ago and have done numerous repairs as you describe.
Key is to find a piece of the same vinyl sheet goods. Hopefully there is a pattern with lines such as squares.
You get a piece bigger than an individual part of the pattern, or square, rectangle, whatever it happens to be.
Overlay it on top of the damaged piece so it is EXACTLY in the right place. This patch piece is held to the floor so it will not move. Some of that removable sticky rubber glue like that stuff they use to hold a credit card to the letter it comes with when it arrives in the mail, or similar will help. Once in place, take a straightedge and a very sharp utility knife and cut in the center of the lines around the damaged piece, cutting right through both the patch and the flooring. Make sure you do it in one cut only, don't go back over it.
Lift off the patch piece. You now have a patch, the same as original, that will fit exactly in the hole. Don't lose the orientation of it.
Starting from the middle of the damaged piece, peel it up off the floor, taking care not to damage or disturb the cut edge of the remaining floor. Remove all traces of glue, if it is in fact glued down. Be sure it is perfectly clean.
Test your patch out, dry fit it. It should fit perfect. Pull it back out and carefully apply flooring adhesive to the floor, ensuring there is no excess at the edge where it meets the existing floor.
Place patch in hole and thoroughly apply pressure to make sure it sticks to the floor. Using a laminate roller helps here.
If the existing floor is not glued down, you will have to carefully lift the vinyl and glue the area surrounding the patch at the same time as you do the patch.
Once the patch is down, thoroughly clean off any excess glue that may be at the joints. Usually water soluble when wet, a wet rag should work.
There is a special tool and a clear vinyl repair liquid that is used to surface seal the repair cuts. It is a small applicator bottle with a small flat nozzle that you use to apply the surface seal to the cuts. This effectively bonds the to pieces of vinyl together, kind of like melting them a bit to join them. Then no dirt or liquid can get in.
It's been a lot of years since I did this, but in my days of applying vinyl sheet goods, I used to do it frequently.
