Laminate Flooring Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

I find laminate flooring is the kind of thing that you either love it or you hate it. Personally I'm in-between the two and I can see pros and cons of having it in your house. The first benefit is obviously the cost. It's a lot cheaper than normal wood and it's easier to maintain. I bought this for my hallway and it's been installed at ...  Read the complete review

At the weekend we had our kitchen flooring changed from vinyl to laminate flooring. We spent a good deal of time uhmming and ahhing over whether this would be a good thing or not and finally decided to give it a go. After researching various types on the internet we decided that we needed to lay a floor which would be moisture ...  Read the complete review

We moved to our present house in 2004 when it was newly constructed. We chose the laminate floorings from a dealer in swansea who sold it for discounted prices. Our house builders mentioned that this was a newly built house and recommended that we use carpet to let the floors expand and contract for atleast 6 months. But we insisted on getting ...  Read the complete review

I had my laminate flooring out in my flat about 5 years ago, we thought that it would be a fantastic idea for so many reasons. The first one being that we have two rather grubby little cats that leave alsorts of dirt and debris around the house and it was much easier to sweep up the cat hairs and dirt rather then getting the hoover out constantly. ...  Read the complete review

Once kids come along there is no better floor covering than the easy clean covering that is laminate flooring. In saying that I hate to see houses that have the cheapest light coloured flooring from front door to back and in every room on the way. I personally have the cheaper laminate flooring in the hall where it gets the most abuse ...  Read the complete review

A few years ago when laminate flooring was popular we were doing up our house. Originally I wanted laminate flooring in both the large bedrooms and the living room but we only did the two bedrooms and decided a carpet would be warmer in the living room. We bought our laminate flooring from United Carpets and it cost us about £150 for ...  Read the complete review

Laminate Flooring!! Everyone went through the phase not so long ago when laminate flooring was very popular indeed. I jumped onto that bandwagon and have laminate in my living room. Laminate flooring is really easy to lay and has a tounge and groove method allowing them to slide ito each other easilly. Laminate ...  Read the complete review

Although I have not laid any laminate flooring so am unable to comment on the ease of use etc, I have now lived in two places where there has been a substancial amount of it. The first was when I was at university, in my third year I shared a house with two other people. The house was like something straight out of an Ikea catalogue, ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Quickstep 800 Eligna sound (Natural Oak Plank) First the good news! I can heartily recommend any of the Quickstep products to anyone thinking of laying a new laminate floor. It's so quick and easy to lay and looks really good. No glue used, it just clips together, and if you by the 'sound' planks the underlay is built in. All in all, an ...  Read the complete review

Mrs D once wrote a review about Ikea Tundra laminate flooring, although she stuck it under my name on Ciao. In those days, she was getting me a name as a bit of a churner, and blow is the depth of opinion which she offered (PS this article also got the most reads I ever received on Ciao!): ...  Read the complete review

There are a number of advantages and disadvantages with this but as with all laminated flooring. When i decorated my first house with my partner we chose this as choice of flooring on the ground floor and i remember distintively we swore never to get it again. But i can now tell you a few years on, last week we were looking at buying flooring ...  Read the complete review

i never thought i would be able to get laminate flooring but i did. So many advantages. so lets begin 1 - so much cheaper than a carpet i got my floor done for 70 quid a carpet was 180 for my room. 2 - no more extra money being spent on carpet shmpoos to remove stains as the laminate is wip clean 3 - easy to quickly sweep up ...  Read the complete review

Laminate Flooring has become very popular in households across the country in recent years becasue it is quite cheap and looks lovely and is supposed to be healthier than carpets. I have laminate flooring in three of my rooms, the living room a spare bedroom and in my own bedroom. I am now thinking of going back to carpets throughout the house. ...  Read the complete review

Fed up with the dark grey carpet in the hall I decided to switch it for FloormasterLoc 3600 birch laminate flooring in an attempt to make the house look a bit more modern. The floor has now been down for nearly a year and it is still clean and undamaged, even after a lot of throughfare taking heavy furniture into the house and building materials ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I?ve just been busy helping my husband to fit some laminated flooring in our bathroom. We decided on laminated flooring after seeing it in our friends house and it looked rather nice. You can buy laminated flooring from most DIY stores. We bought ours from our local B&Q store. It cost £26.00 per 1.9 metres and we bought four. Also we bought nine ...  Read the complete review

Vinyl flooring. Having just replaced our conservatory (the old structure was ancient and wood rotten) we decided to do something about the uneven concrete floor. Should we tile it with some flagstones? Should we put a wooden floor down? Should we put lino down? Well what we did was research all the flooring we could put down .We ...  Read the complete review

I have laid laminate flooring in every room of my house except my bedroom (next on list) and the bathroom. It is quite easy to lay (needs two people) and gives the house a really clean feel. Even when the housework needs doing, it doesn't look too bad. It really is a must if you have children, as spills and accidents can be ...  Read the complete review