Laminate flooring guides and reviews
Let’s start with the truth most articles bury: laminate cores are compressed wood fiber, and once that fiberboard has fully swollen, delaminated, or crumbled, no…
Warm honey-toned floors dominated American homes through the 1990s, fell out of fashion during the gray-floor decade, and are now selling again in serious volume.…
Tearing out an old tile floor is loud, dusty, and expensive — demolition alone runs $2 to $5 per square foot — so it is…
In the early 2000s, real Brazilian cherry (jatoba) was the status hardwood in American homes — a deep reddish-brown exotic so hard it dulled saw…
Laminate spent decades losing kitchen and bath jobs to vinyl over one weakness — water — and the industry’s answer has been a wave of…
Laminate remains the cheapest way to put a convincing wood look on a floor, but the quotes homeowners receive for the same 500-square-foot job can…
Stairs account for more household falls than any other surface in the home, and a laminate staircase without proper edge trim makes those odds worse.…
Real slate is gorgeous, cold, brittle, and expensive to install — four facts that explain why stone-look laminate keeps gaining ground. Slate-look laminate, sold in…
Flooring manufacturers retire décors constantly, and every retired pattern has to go somewhere — usually a clearance rack at 40 to 70 percent off. Shopping…
Laminate is the flooring most likely to be ruined before the first box is even opened, because skipping acclimation and expansion gaps causes more failures…
