I had some water damage and was able (through a doorway) to replace the damaged pieces in a v frome the doorway (floor less than 6 months old).

Only problem is that there is now a gap on one seam, maybe 1/16" wide at its widest, running the length of the new section.

I think this might have been due to expansion of the original flooring from the moisture, or from tapping during the removal process.

I tried using the steel edge tool to hammer from the edge of the room (about 6-8 ft from the gap, but that didn't work due to the long distance from the gap.

I think the answer is friction. If I had a sticky "shoe" under a heave object I could hit with a hammer, I think I could close the gap. I took a walk through lowes and bought a couple of those sticky drawer liners, put my arbor press on a piece of drawer mat, and it ALMOST worked. It closed up the gap some, but it did not "snap" tight.

Any tricks anyone has for applying side force in the middle of a span of laminate flooring?

Dave