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What is this laminate flooring? It looks like wood. Quite basically it is a picture of wood. Laminate Flooring is a multi-layered wood based floating floor system that offers durability, a wide range of design options, easy maintenance and affordability. Laminate flooring is a surface layer of two thin sheets of paper impregnated with melamine. The surface layer is a photograph of wood grain, not real wood, and is usually covered by a hard transparent layer impervious to most damage from most of your everyday hazards.
Europeans have enjoyed the benefits and features of laminate flooring for decades. Only now is laminate flooring making a major impact in the US and Canada. Laminate flooring is the one of the most versatile, durable and well-constructed types of flooring on the market today. The major attraction to laminate flooring is that is very attractive, affordable and easy to maintain.
There are 2 basic designs of laminate flooring, planks and tiles Laminate flooring tiles have tongue and groove edges.Laminate flooring planks can be interlocking or tongue and groove. with two methods fastening them together. One is the snap together and the other is glue together.Laminate flooring that glues together will resist moisture better and the snap together type is easier to install but not quite as structurally sound as the its glue together counterpart.
Laminate flooring may be advertised as wood laminate because under the wood-grain photograph is about a half-inch of wood-chip composite. So, in fact it is mostly wood. The good point is you can have a counterfeit copy of anything you want with the durability that the original may not posses. The bad point is the fact it is a fake.
There are many different manufactures of laminate flooring and as the laminate flooring producers continue to expand colors, styles and increase quality, the growth of laminate flooring industry will continue for many years to come. There have been so many improvements in the quality that it has becoming more and more difficult to tell the fake from the real unless you go the marks in it, yeah the marked up floor is the real wood and the undamaged floor is the fake.
