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Installs like regular old laminate or click lock engineered. From the video, I'll say it doesn't look much like wood.
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For me, if I need water resistance, then I choose resilient vinyl.
We've put in laminate, engineered hardwood, traditional hardwood, resilient vinyl plank and vinyl tile. We installed some of it ourselves, and some of it was professionally installed.
I love the look of traditional hardwood, but not the cost of the material and then the installation. However, I did have a gorgeous scraped hickory floor put into the house last year, and we love it.
Engineered hardwood didn't hold up. Looks good initially, but I find the top layer gets beat up very quickly, particularly when something unexpected happens. We put in an engineered hardwood floor in a family room on slab. One night, a leak developed in a patio door during a heavy rain. The floor near the door was wet for a max of 6 hours, and the finish started coming up.
With the vinyl products available these days, I'll never select laminate again.
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The issues that lumber liquidators had was a small portion of its product a couple years ago now and they were the only one to get the bad press. Everyone was selling flooring with those chemicals in it and didn't know it. It's a non issue for me. However there are other suppliers with better selection and prices.
The flooring linked looks like the stuff that one of the borgs was selling as it was also a water resistant laminate. They pushed it for a bit I store but I haven't seen it in a while.
My assumption would be they are using a mdf substrate like medex which is nearly waterproof mdf.
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That product looks pretty good as an affordable flooring alternative.
Any free advice given is worth double price paid.
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I did laminate in 2 houses and used vinyl plank in one kitchen and like the looks of each but in one house I took out a portion of laminate by a door as it couldn't take the wet shoes coming in and replaced it with some tile. So this time around I am tiling the laundry, entrance, and baths. I was going to carpet the living and dining room along with bedrooms. I gave it some more thought and decided to keep the carpet in the bedrooms and something more durable in common areas. I may go with straight laminate but I leaning to trying something new. It's going in a rental and durability is a large factor
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