Laminate Flooring


 
ChuckO

ChuckO

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Getting ready to pull the trigger on flooring for our mountain digs. This one I like because it goes well with the entry tile, the fireplace tile and the kitchen cabinets. Curious for opinions good or bad. I’ll be honest, a big selling feature is being able to pay it over 24 months interest free

As a heads up, I can see us painting the kitchen cabinets white
 

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Our new place has lvp and we love it. It’s durable, looks great, easy cleanup and waterproof. You chose a wide plank which is better, imo, than narrow planks as they fill the room better in large space. Less visual noise.

You chose a 10mm board thickness plus 2mm cork backing. This will deaden the sound when walking on the floor. It won’t be click clack sound which is nice.

I didn’t look in more detail but is yours textured on the top layer? If so, textured finish looks more natural and less plasticky. Another bonus.

Overall we love our floors. Much nicer than real wood. And they stay clean too. We use Rejuvenate which HD and Amazon sell. It’s a ph neutral cleanser which is recommended for lvp with a matte finish. This way we’re not building up a glossy layer which becomes sticky over time and attracts and holds dirt.

IMO, darker floors hide dirt a little better than lighter floors. Choose what works well for your lifestyle and cleaning frequency.
 
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They are textured, but it’s minimal. We did laminate at our last house and it was ok, the problem was that it wasn’t waterproof and the pets knocked over the Christmas tree (more than once) and that damaged some of the laminate strips. I had extra boxes and was prepared to replace the damaged ones, but the buyers didn’t ask, and I didn’t offer 😂
 
I'm not familiar with laminate flooring being waterproof, unless you glue all 4 edges with a waterproof glue.
Drop and lock vinyl plank is waterproof.
 
I replaced the 20 year old laminate flooring in our upstairs mid last year
We had bought the cheapest we could find way back when and it sure showed it's age!
We didn't buy the most expensive laminate out there, but it looks 1000% better than the old stuff!
Even though I'm retired now, it still took several weeks(7 or 8) due to circumstances beyond my control
 
About a year and a half ago we pulled carpet in our main bedroom/closet and replaced it with LVP. it's been great. Even through it's on cement its warm under your bare feet, cleans easily and is not slick. All the furniture easily moves on coasters for cleaning. We have been happy with it.
 
We are going with a thick veneer engineered hard wood in the house, but I am thinking of doing a LVP floor in the garage which will now be used as a kids game room and extra space to hang out.
The rental we are in has LVP and it’s pretty strong stuff.
 
I went with thick engineered cherrywood flooring for our house in Danville.
Lots of square feet in that house but between the wife ,son, my brother and I we did well.
That job went well and hasn’t given us any issues.
It was definitely easier to click together than vinyl.

In Sequim I recently (last year) put in vinyl flooring.
It was much harder to click together and I have had a couple issues with it that were due to installer error.
In my defense the contractor flaked out on me after 2 days and disappeared so the wife and I finished the job.

One issue is I have an area length about 70-80 feet with a heavy couch and a wood stove neat the middle.
When the floor heats up I can see a 1/16” of semi separation at area due to being perpendicular to the length.
I ran the boards with the entrance view not with the length of the floor.

Another issue was a small bathroom had a concrete floor under it with too much underlayment (padding) .
It felt soft for 6-8 weeks until it separated :(.

Our vinyl flooring looks almost identical to yours Chuck.
It also has slight grooves or a grain to it.
I find myself working harder to clean it when I’m not scrubbing with the grain.
Our robot thing has a setting that can sense that and go length ways with it.

We asked Costco if the flooring was to go on sale and were told if we waited 4 months we could save 30%.
So we waited and the pricing worked out better for us.
 
I've seen a number of those tile systems for garage floors. On that one ST design that is "open" I would not worry about slipping, but for around here with all the crap that drops off our cars (sand, salt, and other types of ice/snow treatments they use), the water, and just the general filth it would drive me crazy. The closed stuff looks like it would become an ice skating rink if wet or worse.
 
timothy said:
I'm not familiar with laminate flooring being waterproof, unless you glue all 4 edges with a waterproof glue.
Drop and lock vinyl plank is waterproof.
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I hadn't either, and we were close to pulling the trigger on vinyl when I saw this. It says waterproof (not just water resistant) and it has a 10 year warrantee, you can be sure I'm going to keep the receipt for the 10 years. It does require a sealer at the baseboards, which they charge $100 more for. I'm paying for them to do the baseboards, I made the mistake of doing them myself the last time we did flooring, and I can't think of a worse job. If given the choice between having to shovel the septic or install baseboards, I'd go get my shovel
 
AndyK said:
We asked Costco if the flooring was to go on sale and were told if we waited 4 months we could save 30%.
So we waited and the pricing worked out better for us.
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I'm getting 5% (roughly $500) if you see 30% in the future, please don't tell me LOL
 
I think I was lucky, the red oak floors that were in my place were covered in carpeting early enough in their life that when we said we were sick of carpeting it wasn’t a hard choice to tear it out! Ten years later we had them refinished, they are really nice.
 
LMichaels said:
I've seen a number of those tile systems for garage floors. On that one ST design that is "open" I would not worry about slipping, but for around here with all the crap that drops off our cars (sand, salt, and other types of ice/snow treatments they use), the water, and just the general filth it would drive me crazy. The closed stuff looks like it would become an ice skating rink if wet or worse.
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You can unzip the tiles say down the center and a side and then slide the section out of the garage so you can rinse the dirt out of the garage. Then pull the tiles back in and step press lock them back into place. Very simple to manage. Kinda like a flat Lego system.
 
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