B&Q Tilelock laminate is the worst laminate flooring I have ever tried to lay. It is impossible to get the joints nice and flush and I spent almost an hour trying to fit one board neatly, without success. The boards had bends in them down the locking edge, making it impossible to join them. I gave up after 5 hours and took the unopened packs back to B@Q for a refund. Don't buy this ...  Read the complete review

**Warning it's a long one! With three messy children and one on the way our not so old carpet was looking a little worn out and well fed by our toddler John who like to feed everything but his mouth. When the over stopped doing it's job on John's ground in waffles it was time to find the perfect solution, no not evict the children, evict the carpet. After browsing through some of the DIY stores online we found it 'laminate flooring'. It met all the criteria for our needs on those of our children. Cost: Carpet: When pricing up carpet at today's prices for our room (13ft x 15ft) it would have cost around ...  Read the complete review

Afew months ago we finally got round to ripping out the nasty old carpet in our lounge, and painted the walls a lovely reddy / orange colour. We'd been saving hard ( Ahem, ok, hubby got his redundancy payout from Parcelforce ) and finally it was time to choose my dream carpet. Hubby then chose to announce his plan...to laminate our living room floor. Many arguements ( sorry Jimmy, discussions ) later, I caved in. Hubby had done his research. How could I argue against hubby when he was armed with so many reasons that carpet was an unsuitable choice for people with a lifestyle like ours. Jimmy : " Dustmites live in carpets. They contribute ...  Read the complete review

I've always been very much a carpet kind of person, but after enduring one winter with the new dog and kids tramping mud straight from the garden into the living room the carpet and I were in a bad way and something had to give. Off to Floors-2-Go then, with some measurements and the barest idea of what I needed. All the natural washed-out colours that I had in mind are of course the most expensive and I didn't want to risk lots of money for my first attempt. In the end I got their Calgary Oak, being pretty cheap but a nice dark colour. With the beading for round the edge plus underlay and a packet of fitting tools and Argos's second-cheapest jigsaw ...  Read the complete review

Laminate flooring is an engineered hard flooring designed to look and feel like real wood. It comes in planks about 25-30cm wide, about 150cm long and about 6mm deep. Most laminate has a click system whereby you should be able to simply click the planks together, however some laminate requires glue. Costs can vary widely depending on the type of laminate you want and its appearance, however you should expect to pay at least £8 per square metre (I paid £17 per metre square which tells you how much it can cost) Last month I decided to put a laminate down in my hallway. I have been a big fan of laminate in the past, although I have never lived with it, and always ...  Read the complete review