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Laminate Flooring
You can find laminate flooring for sale at most home building supply houses such as Lowe’s, Ernest’s, Menards and Home Depot and many online outlets like Amazon and Ebay. Your local Yellow Pages will also provide information regarding carpet and flooring suppliers in your area. You can even buy directly from some manufacturers online.
Laminate flooring is most often four layers of materials. The inner two are the HDF core layer, made of fiberboard, and the design layer made to resemble hardwood, tile, plank flooring, natural stone, bamboo, and wide plank flooring. Both the top and the bottom layers of the laminate flooring are impregnated with amino plastic thermosetting resins or melamine. This sturdy flooring is available in many installation forms from tiles, planks, and panels and even other styles.
Originating in Europe, laminate flooring is a relatively new product to North America. Its popularity is the reduced cost, ease of installation, and long enduring beauty.
Care should be taken to research price, quality of product and delivery costs. A wise consumer will take the time to identify not just cost by square foot of the laminate flooring but the cost of any needs of “sub flooring” and underlayment. Some laminate has the pad preinstalled and others you will need to buy it seperately.
Many retailers and wholesalers have laminate flooring for sale and are offering specials on installation for those not wanting to do it themselves. Lowe’s and Home Depot from time to time also offer the “do it your self” seminars in “how to” Install laminate flooring.
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Laminate Flooring
You can buy Mohawk laminate flooring at way to many places to list them all here but a few of them are The Home Depot, Lowes, discountflooring.com and you can do online comparison shopping at builderssquare.com.
It runs at about two dollars a square foot at HD and Lowes. The main benefit of going to a local store is that they have flooring specialists that can help you to deside which one is right for you. You should keep in mind though that they are also there to sell you.
They both carry manydifferent designs and styles so you should be able to find something that will fit in with your decor.
One of the great things about getting it at The Home Depot or Lowes is that if they don’t have what you are looking for in particular they can order it in for you and have it within days. Also, one of the benefits is that with the purchase of flooring you can also get it installed for a discount price, unless you happen to order during a special then you can get it done for free.
You can also install it yourself. It’s very doable for the average person and it comes with instructions. We also have a guide on this site that will help if you want to do it yourself.
You can buy Mohawk laminate flooring at a great many places. Shop around and get the best price on the style that want and if you are going to have it professionally installed don’t forget to figure that cost into the total cost of your new floor.
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Laminate Flooring
Laminate floors are durable. Unlike hardwood, laminate flooring will not stain, fade, dent and are far more scratch and water resistant. However, they can be damaged by large amounts of water, so they aren’t your best choice for kitchens or bathrooms. For kitchens and bathrooms you should consider an engineered flooring like Amtico. Now lets review some of the choices that you have.
The most popular brands are Pergo, Wilsonart, Dupont, Mohawk, Shaw, Armstrong, Mannington, and Quick-Step. One thing that you want to look for when choosing your planks is the “AC” rating which is a measure of how durable it is.
An AC rating of 1 is the lowest and should only be used in a low traffic area like a bedroom. 5 is the highest and is for commercial use. It is most likely not necessary in a home. A rating of 3 should be sufficient for high traffic areas in your house.
Pergo has the best name in the business but Wilsonart, Shaw, Mohawk and Dupont all have better quality.
Wilsonart uses HPL (high pressure laminate) that is manufactured at 1400 psi giving it superior wear resistance, static load capacity, impact resistance and design clarity (higher sheen levels). They have the exclusive “tap and lock” installation system with the option of using Wilsonart Flooring’s BlueFusion® Adhesive for extreme conditions such as low or high humidity and where water exposure is more likely. Installing Wilsonart Flooring with BlueFusion Adhesive results in up to four times stronger seams and up to 10 times the moisture resistance of other leading laminate flooring installation systems with virtually no time added to the installation process.
DuPont Real Touch premium laminate flooring is a popular choice. They have an exclusive Interplank Design that makes their laminate floors have “virtually seamless joints” and the MicroBevel technology will bring your floors to life with added depth. Another added plus is that they have the underlayment pre-installed.
Shaw makes laminate floors that are 4 layers with a melamine top and bottom layer with a decor layer and a EnviroCore™ layer in between. EnviroCore™ – Shaw’s environmentally friendly coreboard – is the dense inner layer made of recycled wood fiber meaning fewer trees used with less waste.
Mohawk laminate flooring takes naturally occurring patterns of nature and painstakingly replicates color tones and hues of the seasons. Multiple layers compose each laminate, deliberately varied to look and even feel like wood. They have more than 50% pre-consumer recycled content in all their laminate products and are backed with a lifetime structural warranty.
That’s a quick review of the more popular laminate flooring brands available. Go here if you need information on installing your new laminate flooring.