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from Tigard, OR on 8/28/2008
I absolutely love the floor. We have two 65 lb. Samoyeds and 3 kids and there have not been any mishaps yet. Our dogs love to go under the bed and you hear them scratching their way underneath and there are no marks on the floor from this. Also my 4 year old is a very rough and tumble little boy who plays hard and he has not damaged the floor either. (even flying Hotwheels have not left any marks)
I had read the horror stories in here about installation and we did not have any problems at all. This was our first time installing flooring of any kind and the only trouble I had was getting the subfloor level because it had a raised area. We never had any of the rows pop out as we were installing it and we found it very simple to install once we figured out what we were doing. It is time consuming but we finished one room in about 8 hours and I guarantee the next room will go more smoothly. Putting in new floor mouldings was much harder. I only bought enough flooring to do two bedrooms and the hallway upstairs as we wanted to make sure it was what we wanted and we are now planning on doing the rest of the house in this flooring over the next few months.
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from San Diego, CA on 8/27/2008
We were in a time crunch for moving into this house and originally had planned to refinish the existing hardwood floors. Once we sanded the floors we realized they were beyond reasonable repair. We decided to go with this Havana laminate and I am really glad we did so. It is a comfortable floor, nice wide slats, and the color is beautiful. The first thing I receive compliments on when people walk in is the floor which is something to be said as the floor competes with a great view off the living room. Very pleased and the price couldn't have been any better unless it was free.
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This floor is stunning!! Do not look any further if your looking for inexpensive attractive laminate flooring. It truly did complete the look of my kitchen. It's durable and looks great. Just make sure to wipe up any spills right away. Installing it was difficult at first but other than that I love it!!!
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from clarksboro nj on 7/25/2008
once you get started and figure out how they best go together it is a breeze.
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from York, PA on 7/23/2008
This was the first time I ever installed laminate flooring. I installed approximately 400sf by myself in 12 hours. The product was very easy to install, and packaging is great since it already comes in 3 different lengths. The product does not have a plastic like sound that some laminates tend to have when walking on. The V groove style also makes it look more genuine. All in all the product is the one to get.
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from San Diego, CA on 7/14/2008
Get an installer to install this floor for you - it will look way better and get done quicker!! I love the new floors - they look just like the picture!!
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from Carrollton,TX on 6/28/2008
I did not install the floors myself but I am happy with the finished product. This was the best deal for the price we paid. I loved that the underlayment was glued onto the planks and the fact that the planks came in varying sizes in the box. My installer was very happy about that. The beveled edges around each plank give it a clean look that is hard to find in laminate floors. The mahogany color was perfect for our house. The only cons I had were that some boards varied in color from the rest and its noticeable. You will see what I mean in the pictures included. Some may think this makes it look unique, while others may say it makes those boards stick out too much.
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from Lacey, WA on 6/20/2008
We are in the process of putting the floor down. It's been about 4 weeks and we aren't done yet. We have never put flooring down of any kind. We were confused about which way to lay it and how to lay it around heating registers. Physically, it's very hard on your knees, back and hamstrings! It would be helpful if you had 3 people helping (if a larger room) because of the way you have to raise the entire row to get it locked in while keeping the pieces all together.
All in all, we love the way the floor looks, but it's much harder to put in than has been portrayed in some other posts.
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from Lynden, WA on 6/16/2008
We put this flooring throughout our entire house (except for bedrooms) and are absolutely LOVING it! It is such great flooring - durable, pretty easy to install & AWESOME price! We'd replace our old flooring in a heartbeat with this stuff!
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from Aston, PA on 5/27/2008
We placed this in our kitchen directly over the vinyl floor-very easy and looks great! We really liked that the box came with different size planks. It looks very professional.
from Kingwood, TX on 5/8/2008
Really nice looking and at a reasonable cost.
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from Jackson, Mississippi on 4/29/2008
Used this product through out the house, excluding kitchen and bath. Once assembled it's beautiful !
Assembly is 'Iffy', it appears that quality control varies from box to box and does not 'snap' together in a uniform manner. This is more pronounced on the edge joints. The tool kit is a joke, the tapping bar needs to be 3 times as thick so it won't bend. The finished product is beautiful, but getting there is hard.
Flooring is good, looks good, harder than other laminates to install. Shows a lot of dirt but cleans well. [...]
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from Pittsburgh, PA on 4/24/2008
Overall, this is a great product and I can't believe I was able to do it myself. I installed 400 square ft in a day and a half. Like others have said, it's a little tricky to get started because it keeps moving on you. But once you get going, it gets easier. What I did was to click on the plank and then tap in the end. Keep the spacers in a few of the previous rows because when you tap, sometimes the previous rows become separated. So keep looking back at the previous rows while you are tapping to make sure they aren't coming apart. Even if you chip the end of one of the planks, save it, because you will be able to use it later, especially if you have to rip a piece. Great price and great product.
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from Orlando on 4/19/2008
Great floor. Planks make it look like a wood floor. Replaced old carpet and tile. Makes the house look bigger. Great price for the same product at the big box stores. LL saved me close to $1000 on a 1200 sq ft job. Highly recommend this product!
from Connecticut on 4/19/2008
The floor was very easy to install and looks great. Even my wife was impressed.
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from Owasso, OK. on 4/14/2008
Great product. We put hardwoods throughout our entire house. We are very pleased. The only negative we ran into is the boards would seperate a little bit after you were two or three rows beyond and it was very hard to continously keep checking all the joints. Once you get two or three rows beyond the seperation you couldn't knock them together. Other than that little problem we were extremely pleased. THe overall appearance of our house changed drastically once the carpet was removed and the hardwoods were down. My wife and I did it all by ourselves.
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from Mansfield,Texas on 4/11/2008
One of the best flooring products on the market [...]
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from Orlando, Fl. on 4/3/2008
Amazing floor.Looks like a wood floor with the individual slats. Not a floor for DIY'r types. Had to have a friend who was an installer do it. Finished product greatly exceeded our expectations and the Orlando Lumber Liquidator staff (espically the young woman - forgot her name) made the process painless!
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from Napoleon, Ohio on 3/26/2008
This was my first experience with laminate flooring, and it couldn't have been better. I love the "plank" look it has, people think it's real. To me, it doesn't sound like a laminate when you walk on it either. I have a 96 pound golden retreiver who runs and slides on it and you can't tell one bit.
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from BEVERLY, MASS on 3/24/2008
I WISH IT HAD A SLIGHTLY SHINY FINISH...IS QUITE MATTE. THAT BEING SAID, EVEN DRUING INSTALLATION, ALL FRIENDS, MANY KNOWLEDGABLE, THOUGHT THIS WAS HARDWOOD! OUR KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM ARE POOLSIDE IN NEW ENGLAND - NO WORRIES!
GOING FROM ROOM TO ROOM POSED IT'S CHALLENGES IN AN OLD COLONIAL - HINT SOMETIMES WE MADE SMALL "CARPETS" OF THE FLOORING - CONNECTED W DUCT TAPE (UNDERNEATH) TO GO OVER TROUBLE SPOTS AND THEN FILLED IN TROUBLE AREA AND CONNECTED! BE CREATIVE!
WE NEEDED SOMETHING DURABLE AND ATTRACTIVE FOR THESE SPACES - CONSIDERED SLATE - THIS IS JUST SO REALLY BEAUTIFUL WE COULDN'T BE HAPPIER. OH! GREAT ON THE FEET AND LEGS!
PRICE? GREAT :o)
[2 of 2 customers found this review helpful]
from Louisville, KY on 3/21/2008
The finshed product looks very good and is very scratch-resistent; however, you have to be careful not to drop something heavy or sharp on it and be careful with the edges as this flooring is subject to chipping.
The installation was not very difficult, but it was not easy either. The floor kept coming loose as we knocked in additional rows. This is something you have to keep a constant eye on and fix as you go or you will have a very difficult time trying to knock it in place after installing a few rows. You also have to pay attention and layout some of the rows prior to installing them to ensure that the lines alternate for a more natural look.
Once my husband and I got the hang of things, we were able to move fairly quickly with installing the floor. The V-grooves make the floor look very close to hardwood and it is nice that the padding comes pre-attached to the flooring. Overall, I think the product is durable against scratches and nice-looking.
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from Mt. Tabor, NJ on 2/11/2008
I installed the product myself with help from a family member. It turned out beautifully however it was time consuming to install. I was surprised at the high angle that you needed in order to correctly snap the pieces in place. However, all this being said it looks amazing. My friends were surprised with how "real" it looked! It was worth the sweat equity for the finished product. I do recommend using the Pledge multi-surface to clean. It leaves it looking like new.
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from frederick on 2/8/2008
i'm hapy... but the more important is... the coustomer is happy!!!!
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from Twinsburg, Ohio on 1/24/2008
Great floor, easy to install, easy to clean and easy to look at
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from Fountainville, PA on 1/15/2008
This floor looks great. It was not easy to install at first till I got the hang of it. If someone had shown me how to do it in the beginning it would have been better, but once I had the experience of doing about a half room I was cruising. Definately invest in a good tap block and pull bar, the light wieght one I got at the L. L. Store was pretty weak, a tap block shaped more like a z and a wider pull bar is better. I recomend making sure you lay out each line of floor to see what it looks like first and making sure that you cut the floor to fit the room on both ends of each line to achieve a true random look in the seams. If you don't and only cut the floor at one end patterns will emerge and even though there may be a few boards in between you will have straight lines of seams going across the whole room. Some may prefer that look but I don't. Laying it out and cutting from both ends may take a bit longer but it is worth it. Looks wise unless someone gets down and stares at the floor they won't know it's not wood. Another thing I did that I would recomend is to make sure you don't put any of the prints that look the same right next to each other as it draws attention to it. If you have or get this floor there is a double knot pattern with a big knot and a small one next to each other if you put those too close together you will notice. When you look through your product you WILL know exactly what I'm talking about. I put this product in my living room and dining room and it looks great. I chose this product not only because it looks great and the price worked out into my budget, but also because it is a floating floor. I still have th original random width oak planks from 1900 in my house, but the floor needed repair and the refinishing job was too much for me to take on. This floor allowed me a great look at a low cost without damageing my existing hard wood so in the future I still have the option of restoring it.
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from Fallon, Nevada on 10/15/2007
It was very easy to install. It takes about a day from the time you start demolition to the time you finish putting back on the molding, once you get a rhythm going. I think you really can't do better as far as flooring goes. Each piece looks like a single board and the edges are tapered.
We are doing our whole house and I was concerned about how dark it was at first, but actually it lightened up our furniture and walls by contrast.
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from Tallahassee, FL on 10/7/2007
This flooring is Awesome! We have three dogs (two of them large dogs) and they can't touch this stuff. We had real maple in a previous home and the floors took their toll from the dogs. After 10 months, it needed to be refinished. Not with this stuff! I installed this flooring almost 6 months ago and not one scratch. It looks as close to hardwood floors as you can get and it's more durable. I found it difficult to install, tried to take some shortcuts, and because of such, there are several areas of imperfection...hard to notice, but I know they are there. It definately isn't the easiest stuff for a novice to install mainly because of the 3" width. I laid 900 square feet in 3 days. I would probably pay a sub-con to install next time so that it comes out perfect....easy to do since stuff is cost friendly for laminate flooring. You can count on this stuff!
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from Marietta Georgia on 10/4/2007
This is the best Laminate floor I have ever used in fact I just finished laying 1700 sq. feet of this product and getting ready to do my second level which is anouther 1700 sq. feet. I even put this in my kitchen and master bathroom. The comments are unreal everyone likes the look of this floor.I also have two large dogs and they are constantly running in the house and not even one scratch unlike my hardwoods in my prvious home.I highly recommend this floor and will defently use this product in my next home.
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from Tennessee on 7/27/2007
We bought this flooring and put it down in our bedroom a few months ago. We had previous experience with laminate, but the wider planks. While it was a little difficult at first, once we got the method down, it went great. It looks so close to real hardwood and is so easy to clean. It makes our bedroom look more spacious and updated.
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from Worcester, MA on 7/17/2007
When I renovated a condo I chose this flooring for its rich colors - I am not disappointed. Thought it took some time to install the end result adds a warmth to this living space.
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Gorgeous Kitchen use too!
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from Monticello, AR on 7/10/2007
We are very pleased with our purchase. By just looking, you can not tell the difference in our floor and real hardwood. You can tell when you walk on it. But for the price its a great product. With a little patience and a friend, anyone can install this flooring. The best feature of this flooring is that each strip is and looks like one board, not the elusion of 3 boards in one strip.
[3 of 3 customers found this review helpful]
I love this floor, I put it in our future nursery, but because its just soooo nice we are going to do the other 2 bedrooms and the livingroom. This site really doesn't do this floor justice. each plank is beveled it really looks like wood planks. Can't say enough!
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from Montgomery, IL on 5/30/2007
Very happy with this product. It really looks fantastic. Even better than we had hoped. We installed 1700 square feet in our home, so I think we are experts at installation at this point :) However, getting started, there are a few gotchas... please note these might be the same for all laminates so I am not knocking this product.
(1) There is definitely a technique to locking the pieces in place. The longest pieces are particularly tricky when getting started. I would have preferred a more foolproof locking mechanism, but to be fair I don't think an 8 mm product could be any more rigid. Some of the 12 mm products look like they are easier to work with, but there wasn't anything available in that category on our timeline (stuff was on backorder for months).
(2) Be careful about how you tap the floor in, we have 3 tapping blocks and 1 of the 3 seemed to damage/bend the lip - so if you find the floors aren't locking clean together at the ends, check your block/tapping technique.
(3) Also we found the "pull bar" to be another potential problem. Our initial one was flimsy, difficult to use, and tended to chip the laminate off. Bought a second one at the local big box store and it is much heavier/thicker.
(4) If working in a larger area, it pays to use a lot of spacers (beyond just enough to establish the expansion gaps) to pin the boards in tight. Otherwise we found that the tapping/pulling on the new row caused pieces in prior rows to come apart slightly. We blew some time figuring that one out and then retapping all the rows back in.
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from phoenix, az on 5/20/2007
This was relatively easy to install! I purchased because I have dogs, and this is almost completely scratch resistant. I find with any type of wood floors, you tend to clean more...the dust usually disappears into carpet, but I am happy with this product, and have had in installed in my living room for about a year. I will be finishing off my bedroom and hallway this summer...same product, same color. Amazing price!!
[5 of 5 customers found this review helpful]
First couple rows were a little difficult, can float on you if you don't keep pushing forward. We took about 3 inch chips from our cuts, and used them to knock the pieces into place either left or right (also to push it forward). Be careful on the edges as they can chip. Because they come in 3 equal lengths, there are only so many ways to put it down and not have the lines parallel, it was easier to make small cuts on the ends to start a row and really break up the lines. Looks great, compliments from everyone. We even used it for stairs and kickboards, but it's a good idea to use finish nails on the kickboards and stairnoses. Just for extra strength. Read some reviews [...] prior to buying, don't believe the hype. Great product, floor installers aren't fans for obvious reasons, seems like homeowners like myself are!!!
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from Hunlock Creek, PA on 4/27/2007
I loved that the underlayment was already attached, so we didn't have to worry about that. It is very easy to install, snapped together no problem. The only problem I had was with the 'matching pieces'. The stairnose, t-molding etc. did not match the laminate at all.
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from Abingdon, MD on 4/24/2007
I've never done a flooring installation before and with a little practice was easily able to install this flooring. I installed over 1300 Sq.Ft. in my basement and it looks fantastic. I liked it so much I also installed it in my office.
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from southaven ms on 4/2/2007
I installed this floor in my den. I had 300 square feet and it took me a day and a half to install.We love the look of this floor and the durability. The price isnt bad either.