You have very helpful videos. A countertop oven was used for some additional holiday baking last year in one area of my fairly new laminate countertop. The heat created some bubbles, and I’m wondering if I could use my iron to possibly make the laminate lay back down? Thank you for the video.
"Just 'might' do the trick," "might" being the operative word. In my experience, while doing that works temporarily, which I suppose is great for a contractor who just wants to look like he's gotten the job done, it never works long-term. You've waited too long and the contact glue is no longer tacky. Yes, it gets somewhat tacky again when you reheat it with an iron, but not like it was before. It won't form the tight bond it would've had you not waited too long but instead followed the contact glue's instructions' maximum time limit for plying the two surfaces together. What WILL happen is in a few weeks or months, that corner WILL come unstuck, just like it is there. Maybe whose counter it is will call the contractor, who will likely tell them to just iron it, which will again work and feel very satisfying to whose counter it is, but not for long because it will then come unstuck again, this time even more quickly. Whose counter it is then gets into a cycle of ironing their counter more and more until it finally quits working altogether. A contractor whose made this mistake needs to fix it right, not apply an iron to it, and if that means having to redo the entire piece, then so be it. It's on the contractor for being neglectful by getting distracted and waiting too long to ply the two surfaces together such that the contact cement fails to bond the two surfaces together properly. Any contractor who fudges it by ironing it so that it seems OK to whose counter it is and they can get out of there is not a good contractor, is signing that customer up for down the road having that laminate come unstuck, just like you see it there, and becoming a worsening problem because you compromise an increasingly larger area of the adhesive every time you iron it such that more and more of it gets unstuck the next time it gets unstuck, and that's not just maybe but DEFINITELY, by which time the contractor will usually either be long gone or will refuse to do anything about it, blaming the person whose counter it is for it happening, attributing the cause to them having to have abused or misused the counter somehow for that to happen, like by setting something too warm on it or knocking up against it too hard (something anyone would have a hard time categorically denying because "too" is so vague as to be subjective and the laminate having come unstuck seems be proof that either they or someone in their home at some point must've or at least very well could've, even if not realizing it), rather than taking responsibility, maybe because that contractor no longer remembers that they improperly waited too long to join the surfaces and so had to use an iron to fudge it or maybe because that contractor does remember but refuses to admit it because admitting makes them liable when whose counter it is otherwise has no proof that that they did it wrong and are liable. IN SHORT: USING AN IRON TO REHEAT CONTACT GLUE THAT'S SET TOO LONG, OVERCURED, AND SO FAILS TO STICK THE TWO SURFACES TOGETHER IN ORDER TO GET THEM TO STICK TOGETHER IS NOT THE WAY! IT ONLY WORKS TEMPORARILY, LIKE HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON ON THE PROBLEM, BECAUSE WAITING TOO LONG COMPROMISED THE BOND, SO WHILE HEATING IT UP MAY MAKE THE GLUE TACKY ENOUGH TO STICK FOR THE TIMEBEING, IT WILL NOT LAST AND WILL COME UNSTUCK AS THE SURFACES ARE NOT PROPERLY BONDED, NOT EVEN CLOSE. AND IF YOU HAVE WAITED LONG AND GONE BEYOND THE WINDOW OF TIME THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE CONTACT GLUE SAY FOR WHEN YOU SHOULD JOIN THE SURFACES, RATHER THAN BULLDOZING AHEAD AND TRYING TO JOIN THE SURFACES ANWAY, JUST APPLY ANOTHER COAT OF CONTACT GLUE TO THE TWO SURFACES AND THIS TIME NOT GO BEYOND THE WINDOW OF TIME THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE CONTACT GLUE SAY FOR WHEN YOU SHOULD JOIN THE SURFACES. IF YOU BULLDOZE AHEAD, YOU'LL JUST END UP IN A SITUATION WHERE ADHERING IT PROPERLY WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY MEAN DESTROYING THAT PIECE OF LAMINATE AS ANY PART THAT DOES STICK HARD WILL SOONER BREAK THAN BE PRIED BACK UP AND GETTING CONTACT GLUE JUST UNDER THE PORTION THAT ISN'T GLUED ALWAYS LEAVES AN AREA THAT'S TOO NARROW TO GET CONTACT GLUE INTO AND SO LEAVES A PORTION OF THE EDGE OR IN THE CENTER THAT ISN'T GLUED DOWN AND IS EITHER DETECTABLE VISUALLY OR BY TOUCH AND SOUND AS IT MOVES UP AND DOWN WITH A TAPPING NOISE EVERY TIME ANYONE TOUCHES THE COUNTER THERE.
That's a great tip Chris, thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for being to the point. How-to's on youtube tend to turn into soap operas.
great tip!
And... A+ on the brevity of this video!
You have very helpful videos. A countertop oven was used for some additional holiday baking last year in one area of my fairly new laminate countertop. The heat created some bubbles, and I’m wondering if I could use my iron to possibly make the laminate lay back down? Thank you for the video.
Have you tried this trick?
"Just 'might' do the trick," "might" being the operative word. In my experience, while doing that works temporarily, which I suppose is great for a contractor who just wants to look like he's gotten the job done, it never works long-term. You've waited too long and the contact glue is no longer tacky. Yes, it gets somewhat tacky again when you reheat it with an iron, but not like it was before. It won't form the tight bond it would've had you not waited too long but instead followed the contact glue's instructions' maximum time limit for plying the two surfaces together. What WILL happen is in a few weeks or months, that corner WILL come unstuck, just like it is there. Maybe whose counter it is will call the contractor, who will likely tell them to just iron it, which will again work and feel very satisfying to whose counter it is, but not for long because it will then come unstuck again, this time even more quickly. Whose counter it is then gets into a cycle of ironing their counter more and more until it finally quits working altogether. A contractor whose made this mistake needs to fix it right, not apply an iron to it, and if that means having to redo the entire piece, then so be it. It's on the contractor for being neglectful by getting distracted and waiting too long to ply the two surfaces together such that the contact cement fails to bond the two surfaces together properly. Any contractor who fudges it by ironing it so that it seems OK to whose counter it is and they can get out of there is not a good contractor, is signing that customer up for down the road having that laminate come unstuck, just like you see it there, and becoming a worsening problem because you compromise an increasingly larger area of the adhesive every time you iron it such that more and more of it gets unstuck the next time it gets unstuck, and that's not just maybe but DEFINITELY, by which time the contractor will usually either be long gone or will refuse to do anything about it, blaming the person whose counter it is for it happening, attributing the cause to them having to have abused or misused the counter somehow for that to happen, like by setting something too warm on it or knocking up against it too hard (something anyone would have a hard time categorically denying because "too" is so vague as to be subjective and the laminate having come unstuck seems be proof that either they or someone in their home at some point must've or at least very well could've, even if not realizing it), rather than taking responsibility, maybe because that contractor no longer remembers that they improperly waited too long to join the surfaces and so had to use an iron to fudge it or maybe because that contractor does remember but refuses to admit it because admitting makes them liable when whose counter it is otherwise has no proof that that they did it wrong and are liable.
IN SHORT: USING AN IRON TO REHEAT CONTACT GLUE THAT'S SET TOO LONG, OVERCURED, AND SO FAILS TO STICK THE TWO SURFACES TOGETHER IN ORDER TO GET THEM TO STICK TOGETHER IS NOT THE WAY! IT ONLY WORKS TEMPORARILY, LIKE HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON ON THE PROBLEM, BECAUSE WAITING TOO LONG COMPROMISED THE BOND, SO WHILE HEATING IT UP MAY MAKE THE GLUE TACKY ENOUGH TO STICK FOR THE TIMEBEING, IT WILL NOT LAST AND WILL COME UNSTUCK AS THE SURFACES ARE NOT PROPERLY BONDED, NOT EVEN CLOSE.
AND IF YOU HAVE WAITED LONG AND GONE BEYOND THE WINDOW OF TIME THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE CONTACT GLUE SAY FOR WHEN YOU SHOULD JOIN THE SURFACES, RATHER THAN BULLDOZING AHEAD AND TRYING TO JOIN THE SURFACES ANWAY, JUST APPLY ANOTHER COAT OF CONTACT GLUE TO THE TWO SURFACES AND THIS TIME NOT GO BEYOND THE WINDOW OF TIME THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE CONTACT GLUE SAY FOR WHEN YOU SHOULD JOIN THE SURFACES. IF YOU BULLDOZE AHEAD, YOU'LL JUST END UP IN A SITUATION WHERE ADHERING IT PROPERLY WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY MEAN DESTROYING THAT PIECE OF LAMINATE AS ANY PART THAT DOES STICK HARD WILL SOONER BREAK THAN BE PRIED BACK UP AND GETTING CONTACT GLUE JUST UNDER THE PORTION THAT ISN'T GLUED ALWAYS LEAVES AN AREA THAT'S TOO NARROW TO GET CONTACT GLUE INTO AND SO LEAVES A PORTION OF THE EDGE OR IN THE CENTER THAT ISN'T GLUED DOWN AND IS EITHER DETECTABLE VISUALLY OR BY TOUCH AND SOUND AS IT MOVES UP AND DOWN WITH A TAPPING NOISE EVERY TIME ANYONE TOUCHES THE COUNTER THERE.
Exhaustingly long explanation
I'll bet, In a pinch, you could use a big pot of hot water.
Frank