The aim of this note is to apply the Borel–Laplace summation method studied by H. Chen, Z. Luo and C. Zhang (Summability of formal solutions of singular PDEs by means of two-dimensional Borel–Laplace method, preprint) to the divergent power series solutions to two families of nonlinear PDEs. The first one contains particularly a two-dimensional version of the so-called Euler equation (ODE), while the second is called totally characteristic type PDE by H. Chen and H. Tahara (On the holomorphic solution of non-linear totally characteristic equations, Math. Nachr. 219 (2000) 85–96).