On 12/20/2015 7:58 AM, Unquestionably Confused wrote:

Certainly, if the damaged area is near a border, that will work. However the
Pergo does NOT just push together. It locks by joining the pieces at an angle
(~30 degrees) and then pushing down. The only part that "pushes" together are
the end pieces. That said, to "uninstall" the floor to get to a bad piece in
the center requires that you remove everything from the baseboard into that
position (let's say 8' in) and from one end of the room to the other since it
all locks together and the joints are staggered by 16" to 20" or so.

Exactly. Like trying to remove a brick in the middle of a wall by removing
the bricks above it (i.e., they overlap each other). The farther "down"
you need to move through the courses, the WIDER the gap you have to
create (to ensure no bricks lie atop the NEXT LOWER course when you go
to remove THOSE bricks -- getting you one step closer to your target).

If somebody accidentally dropped a spinning router in the center of my living
room, I'd damn sure attempt to cut out the section before taking up the entire
floor, numbering everything to reinstall it, etc.

If the "cut and paste" routine that Don and I have offered doesn't work,
removal/replacement of the entire floor remains an option. I suspect, trader,
if you actually installed a Pergo or similar floor system, you'd agree.

Please remove the twelfth chevron from the following sequence -- without
allowing any of the others to move in the process: