Laminate Flooring

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 ...

**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 ...

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 ...