How To Repair Laminate Furniture

If there are several blisters move the iron slowly and evenly back and forth.

How to repair laminate furniture.

Start the repair by putting on utility gloves to ensure you don t burn yourself. If it s not a match don t glue. And even if you decide to paint often the difference in grain makes for a blotchy looking paint job. Apply the primer using a brush or roller until there s an even coverage on the entire surface of the furniture.

A glue repair works best if you have a piece of veneer that s an exactfit and matches up with the existing grain. Apply a high quality latex primer to the furniture s surface. If you do it will be impossible to stain well super difficult. February 27 2014 at 1 17 pm.

Use the marker crayon putty or pencil in the kit to fill in the scratch. Press on the bubble to allow any excess air to escape through the slit. Small blisters in veneer can usually be flattened with heat. Wooden furniture generally comes in two types natural or laminated.

Look for primer at your local hardware or paint store. Press the bubbled section down firmly using your gloved hand. First use a sample of your laminate flooring if you have one to find a touch up or repair kit in a matching color. Press the blistered area firmly with a medium hot iron.

Heat the area moving the heat source back and forth to prevent scorching. 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. I know with veneer you can use wood putty but laminate is a bit trickier maude. Then cut a slit into the top of the bubble.

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. To protect the surface set a sheet of wax paper and then a sheet of smooth cardboard on the surface and cover the cardboard with a clean cloth.