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Summary: Laminate Flooring and fitting laminate flooring

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Laminate flooring has become an extremely popular, inexpensive floor covering over recent years and its versatility enables it to be installed in every room in the house. Indistinguishable (using reputable makes) from real wood floors, and so easy to clean, an ambience can be created which can give your home a unique sense of style and charm.

Laminate flooring is an interlocking flooring system that uses the tongue and groove method of joining the individual planks. This tongue and groove system can be glued together, or more recently, clipped together using one of several dry joint methods, each particular to its manufacturer. All laminate floors have, at the top, a "wearlayer". This is generally comprised of a melamine resin which gets its incredible durability, wear and stain resistance from Aluminum Oxide. Under this wear layer, is generally a "print layer" which is simply a photograph of a real floor. The whole lot sits on a backing board. A visual example of this can be seen by clicking through to the floorsonline.co.uk website and then by clicking on the "Construction" tab

Underneath the backingboard many choose to install an underlay. There are several different types available. All underlay, packs of laminate flooring (in a variety of attractive and eyecatching styles), adhesives, tools and sealants can be purchased from the laminate flooring section of the floorsonline.co.uk website

Look for flooring with some of the following attributes.

HDF.PROTECT: Is a registered method of using a high density fiberboard, impregnated with moisture resisting resins.

LOCTEC: Is a glue free installation. Simple and fast handling: Panels are simply locked into one another. Special profiling for a reliable four-sided lock. Can be walked on straight away. Thanks to tongue and groove sealing: no ingress of moisture possible if maintained according to our recommendation. Can be taken apart and laid again - ideal for house moves. No removal of residual glue necessary after installation.

SOUND PROTECT: Means optimum footfall noise absorption. thanks to an environmentally friendly, unique, dense integral underlay.

AQUA PROTECT: Means it is entirely suitable for the kitchen and bathroom. Highly resistant to moisture : a core board featuring a special component largely prevents swelling of the floor when in contact with water.

Laminate floors are hard wearing, resistant to household chemicals, hygienic, easy to clean and resistant to UV light (> level 6 Blue Scale, EN 20105 B02). They are available for Domestic and commercial use with a range of usage levels in both categories. Some examples of available colours can be seen below.

Beech 1

Beech 2

Oak

Cherry

For more detailed information regarding flooring underlay and also types of laminate flooring and how to lay laminate flooring visit our Laying Laminate Flooring Project.

Check out our video sections on "flooring" and "laying laminate flooring" to watch a variety of films on installing a laminate floor.

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