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Laminate Flooring

Durable, budget-friendly planks with realistic wood grain.

$3.00 - $7.00 per sq ft, materials and installation.

Laminate is the sensible answer when you want the look of timber across a lot of floor without a timber budget. A good laminate in a hallway or living room will outlast a cheap engineered board and cost considerably less.

The core is high-density fibreboard with a photographic decor layer and a clear wear layer on top. The quality gap between a budget board and a good one shows up in three places: the abrasion rating, the joint system, and whether the surface texture lines up with the printed grain. We fit boards where it does, because a texture that ignores the grain is what makes a floor read as fake.

Laminate floats over an underlay, so installation is fast — a whole ground floor in a day or two — and it can go straight over most existing hard floors that are flat and dry.

What it costs as the job grows

The band shows the budget-to-premium range for this material at each size.

At 1,550 sq ft, laminate flooring typically lands between $4,650 and $10,850.

Common questions

How is laminate different from LVP?

Laminate has a fibreboard core, LVP has a plastic one. That makes laminate harder underfoot and often more convincing in a wide plank, but it also means standing water will swell the core. In a kitchen or basement we point people at LVP; in a bedroom, hallway or living room laminate is usually the better floor for the money.

What does the AC rating mean?

It is the abrasion rating. AC3 is fine for a bedroom, AC4 for a busy household, AC5 for the kind of traffic a shop sees. We generally fit AC4 or AC5 in family homes because the price difference is small and it is the layer that decides how the floor looks in five years.

Is it noisy?

It can be, if it is floated over a hard subfloor with a thin underlay. We fit an acoustic underlay as standard, which takes out most of the hollow click people associate with older laminate.

Installed across Rockford, Loves Park, Belvidere, Machesney Park, Roscoe.

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