lifting a "middle section" of laminate flooring

[elmsoft]

I need to access pipes which run under the floor at the threshold. The problem is that this would involve lifting a "middle section" of the laminate. ( the short edges of the board are parallel with the threshold)
This laminate has the usual interlocking edges which are presumably designed to stop exactly that! I am expecting to have to start at a skirting board and work my way back but is there a clever trick to avoid doing that?

 

[OwainDIYer]

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[elmsoft]

Thanks for the reply. I think I would rather spend an afternoon lifting a couple of metres of laminate than have the visible hatch.
I just don't want to go to all the trouble and then have someone more clued up than I am tell me how I could have done the job in ten minutes with a fishing line and some chewing gum!

 

[phatboy]

Does your laminate have edging strips, or does it go under the skirting board? If its the latter, it will be quite a job

No possibility of access from below?

 

[elmsoft]

No edging strips- I will have to remove the skirting. So yes, quite a job.
But like I say, I am quite content to just get on with it as long as I know that it has to be done and I am not missing a short cut.

 

[gregers]

can you get under the floor from another area?

 

[elmsoft]

The suspended floor butts to a concrete floor- it's a basement flat and a was a rather cowboyish townhouse conversion at that. so no, no way out. As I have said, I don't mind lifting the laminate from the skirting board end- just as long as I know I really do have to!
Thanks to all for the replies