Allure flooring repair

[Rockwood27]

I have Allure vinyl flooring (12" X 36") with the glue joints and I would like to replace one piece. I have a full piece from the same manufacturing lot, so match-up will be fine. How does one "unstick" the edges? Will a heat gun work to soften the glue? Has anyone done a repair on this flooring? The Allure instructions don't address the replacement of a full tile.

Thanks, Fran

[ronjhall]

I ran a screw into my flooring. To replace I used a sharp utility knife to cut a 2" wide X 24" long slot in center of bad plank. Stuck my hand into slot toward top overlap. May be best to start at a corner. I then carefully pushed down on bottom plank to break seal. Slowing worked around bad plank with this method. Cutting out more of plank as it came loose. When I got top side completed started working on bottom side by pushing up on bad plank and pushing down adjoining plank. Did the same on end. Did this in 80° weather without putting any heat on flooring. Hardest part was putting new plank under mating plank. Had to clean up a little bit of old plank seal from mating planks before installing new plank. Whole project took about 15 minutes.