Water leaked under laminate floor boards. What's the plan? [View all]
I've got laminate wood floor (placed atop cement) butting up against a wall on the other side of which is a tiled bathroom. A slow leak from the toilet apparently seeped under the sink cabinet, under the wall, and into the hallway, but the only reason I know it's there is because the laminate makes a squishy sound when I walk on it. Of my entire laminate floor, this hallway is the side of the house where the boards started getting laid down, so, if I'm not mistaken, I can't lift the boards out to air dry unless I take out ALL the laminate starting from the other side of the house.
1) Is it possible to lift out these boards without having to take out the entire floor?
2) Is there another approach I might take to dry out the floor without removing boards? Would fans help it dry through gradual seep-y evaporation or something?
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