How to Choose Good Quality Laminate Flooring Today?

For 30 years, laminate flooring has become one of the common flooring materials in the world today. There are tons of laminate flooring brands available for the home owners to choose, so the question is, how to choose the best type of laminate flooring for the home? What are the things should the owner be looking before investing thousands of dollars on the laminate flooring?

Here are some recommended ways to choose a good laminate flooring:

1) Reputable Brand

Choosing a good reputable flooring brand is indeed important. This is because home owners need to have to assurance of a good credible product which gives a reasonable warranty period backed by the manufacturer.  

2) Credible Contractor

The home owners need to check if the vendor has a good reputaion standing in the industry and whether do they have good quality installation team for the flooring. When the flooring needs repair and maintenance, will the vendors still be around to rectify the problem for the home owners? 

3) AC Class

Home owners sometimes might get confused by this type of rating for the flooring. This type of rating measures the durability of the laminate flooring especially against scratches and abrasion. It measures from (Abrasion Class) AC1 up to AC5 rating. The higher the rating, the more durable the laminate flooring will be.

However, home owners may have to look beyond that.

Ask the vendor that the rating is based on what kind of standard,  is it the recommended European standard (EN) or others? If it is EN standard, ask how the tests are carry out. Usually for the actual testing to test the abrasion, the sandpaper can only be rolled on the floorboard surfaces for 200 times using the test device. A new piece of sandpaper will then be changed every 200 times in order to give an accurate measure of the AC class of the laminate flooring board.

Some low quality laminate flooring does not abide to this discipline. They might use a very "smooth" sandpaper and make it rolled on the floorboard for 10,000 times using the AC test device and declare it to be AC5 instead.

Hence, it is best to select reputable laminate flooring brands such as Tarkett or Robina, which follow strictly to the EN standard of the AC rating system.

4) Eco Healthy & Safe to Use

The laminate flooring board must be tested and proven to be safe when used at homes. Always look for test certification such fire resistance test, slip resistance certification, make sure the flooring has low in formaldehyde emission (E1 or E0 rating should be recommended). This perhaps is the most significant criteria when you are shopping for laminate flooring because you are the one who will be living with the flooring with your family members for long term. Hence choose wisely.

By choosing a good authentic laminate flooring brand with eco friendly quality, it also can help to enhance global sustainability, thus adding goodwill to your home living lifestyle.

In summary

Before you buy.you should take some time to do your due dilligence and research on the available laminate flooring brands in the market. Making a wise decision on your laminate flooring is therefore easier if you make the effort to find out more. Happy shopping!