Wednesday, January 14, 2009

The Benefits of Pergo Flooring

By Harry Manning

Pergo flooring provides a broad selection of laminate flooring, with an emphasis on reproducing the genuine feel of hardwood and tile.

With Pergo flooring, homeowners can rest assured with a floor that will both look great and last years.

Laminate flooring requires next to no maintenance, and will stay looking great for decades.

The latest Pergo flooring reproduces the graining, knotting, texture, and color of genuine hardwood.

Visitors will have a hard time recognizing the floor as anything but hardwood.

In addition to its wonderful appeal and enduring aesthetics, laminate flooring is incredibly simple to lay down.

With its interlocking tiles, Pergo flooring can be installed without professional help.

The tiles are manufactured with a tongue and groove system that allows the tiles to interlock without glue or other industrial adhesives.

Provided a home installer has a tile cutting tool, installation should take very little effort.

Interlocking Pergo flooring is also friendlier to the environment, as it requires no toxic adhesives, without any of the harmful chemical adhesives that other floors possess.

Home installation is easy enough for almost anyone to do, and can save thousands of dollars in professional installation fees.

Pergo flooring is safer and healthier without any of the chemicals seen in other flooring.

Once a Pergo floor is installed, it should last for several years. Worn out and damaged tiles can be individually removed and replaced.

Laminate flooring is very resistant to water damage and abrasion.

A hardwood will crack and buckle when exposed to moisture over time. Cupping and crowning results from prolonged moisture exposure.

This moisture can come potentially from spills and from water wicking up from the subfloor.

Pergo flooring is superior to carpet as well, offering both durability and warmth that the former cannot.

Carpet can end up absorbing water and food stains, making it difficult to keep clean. Over time, carpet can also take on unpleasant odors that are hard to eliminate.

Laminate flooring keeps out these kinds of smells, remaining in great condition for many years.

Carpet, by contrast, will gradually wear down and become frayed and torn. A torn or frayed carpet must inevitably be replaced entirely, whereas laminate tiles can be individually fixed. - 16492

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