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Most folks who buy laminate flooring do so simply because they want challenging flooring, but cant afford wood. But how does laminate flooring compare to wood? Is it a great option, or a case of you get what you pay for?

Properly, that depends on whats important to you. The most significant benefit of laminate flooring, apart from its eye-catching cost point, is that it is so easy to install: you can do it oneself, quite very easily, which is far from the case with wood flooring. Laminate systems tend to be developed like a jigsaw puzzle, to quickly and simply snap together.

Laminate flooring is also usually sturdier than wood it is quite difficult wearing, to the point where a low cost shop like Ikea can give a considerably longer guarantee on their laminates than most wood floor shops can. It wont fade or dent simply.

Even though its no less complicated to clean that wood, its worth mentioning that its an awful lot easier to clean laminate that it is to clean carpet, if you were also considering putting that on your floor. Among the quality of wood and the cheapness of laminate, its hardly even worth contemplating carpet as an solution these days.

However, there are also quite a handful of disadvantages to laminate flooring. The initial is the look and sound of it: it looks fake, and it sounds hollow. Even though the sound can be fixed with an underlay, the appear will in no way be as unique as wood, as wood is naturally formed on a tree and each and every floor is distinct. Laminate flooring is essentially like sticking a bunch of repeating posters to your floor with a image of some wood on them hardly the exact same.

Also, laminate floors will typically curl up and get spoiled if you drop water or other liquids on them. This normally tends to make them unsuitable for bathroom and kitchen use, unless they have been specially treated for it. sponsors