Why Laminate?
Want that hardwood flooring look without any of the disadvantages of a real wood floor, for less money. Then laminate is the floor for you and because of this it is fast become one of the worlds most popular floors. So what is laminate? It is a high resolution picture of wood/ tile laminated onto a High Density Fibre board core with a tough melamine wear layer for added protection.

Laminate floors are installed as a floating floor making it less intrusive and cheaper to do than other floor covering and because of the faux nature of the product a wide range of colours and designs are available meaning you can get that specific look you require with none of the extra expense.

A laminate floor is a durable floor dependant on the quality of the specific one you get, some come with ten year warranties and others with 50 year warranties. So you’d put the ten year one in a bedroom and the 50 year one in a hallway, making this an ideal product for any room in the house. It’s generally scratch/stiletto proof keeping your floor looking better for longer and low maintenance just sweep and damp mop when needed.

Laminate flooring by far gives you a variety of choice in both colour and costs. With famous quality brands such as Quickstep, Pergo, Balterio and Berry Floor to budget laminates such as V-groove and Standard Click. Two of our most popular brands are Quickstep and Pergo here is a bit more information on them both.

Quickstep- The inventors of the “uniclic” laminate flooring that revolutionised the market, making a laminate floor more accessible to the DIY customer. A fitter’s favourite floor due to the popularity of their designs and ease of fit quickstep has established itself as one of the UK’s favourite flooring brands.

Not only is it easy to fit but it’s also extremely durable and their patented scratch guard a new innovation that uses nano-particle technology to make the wear layer on the floor practically impossible to scratch and wear out. Every Quick-Step® floor undergoes a unique, permanent antistatic treatment. That makes disruptive electrostatic discharges nothing more than a bad memory. It also makes the floor highly suited for use in offices and shops.

What’s more, the extensive palette of designs will work its magic and turn your interior into a real home. Turning your house into a home is exactly what drives our team of designers. Nature is their biggest source of inspiration. The clearest proofs of this are the surface structures, which emphasise the wood and stone motifs of the floors.

Pergo- Pergo is a flooring company with prominent positions in the North American and European markets. The company develops, manufactures and markets flooring of high quality with distinctive designs and unique properties for both homes and commercial areas.
You won’t see any trace left behind from wild celebrations, the paws of dogs, children’s parties, spilt ice cream or the legs of tables. The floor looks as good as new, day after day, month after month, year after year.

That’s what makes PERGO® the “Don’t worry floor”. And that’s why we dare to give a guarantee for residential use valid for up to 50 years on most floors.

In addition, we constantly create new designs, surface textures and formats that give you even more possibilities to create a room that fits your personality.

WEAR RESISTANCE
Pergo’s patented TitanX™ Surface offers the best multi-layer protective floor finish on the market today. It consists of several layers that provide a level of wear resistance that far exceeds accepted standards for heavy commercial use. This makes PERGO® floors the most durable laminate floors in the world. And that’s why you get the best guarantee on the market when you buy a PERGO floor.

SCRATCH RESISTANCE
The TitanX™ Surface also features an extra protective layer that offers the best scratch resistance available on the market today. This unique and patented PERGO® feature protects the floor from scratches and maintains the rich lustre three times longer and better than any other laminate floor.

IMPACT RESISTANCE
The TitanX™ Surface with its unique multi-layer construction in combination with a dense core material gives your floor the highest impact resistance, meeting even the toughest requirements. This protects your floor from potential damage caused by falling objects and high-heeled shoes.

WATER RESISTANCE
Our double Moisture Resistance System is a combination of one of the most moisture-resistant core materials on the market and the strong and tight click joint. This gives PERGO® floors some of the best water-resistance properties on the market. So don’t worry about accidents like spilt drinks or overflows of water from plants pots.

SOUND REDUCTION
Our SoundBloc™ technology built into all PERGO® floors consists of a sound-reducing underlay attached to the underside of the board, which provides better soundproofing properties than a conventional loose underlay. Pergo’s revolutionary new SoftTech™ technology now makes the floor even quieter by placing a sound-blocking layer under the laminate surface.

EASY MAINTENANCE
The hard and durable surface of a PERGO® floor is resistant to dirt and offers you low maintenance and effortless cleaning. The solid, secure design of the click joints also keeps dirt from penetrating into the joint.

EASY INSTALLATION
The attached soundproofing underlay and the glueless click joints make for faster and more flexible installation since no glue and no extra underlay are needed. Just fold it down into place or tap it into position horizontally and you’ll be done in no time.

FIRE RESISTANCE
PERGO® floors have a natural high resistance to fire. Selected collections are designed to meet all European requirements for installation in escape routes and assembly halls.

ANTI-STATIC
Pergo has developed and patented a technology that gives the Sense™, Uniq™, Practiq™ and Expression™ floors anti-static properties, so you don’t have to worry about unpleasant electrostatic charges.

ANTI-MICROBIAL
The Uniq™, Practiq™ and Sense™ floors all have anti-microbial properties without the use of chemicals. Thanks to the addition of silver in the flooring, bacteria and viruses are prevented from multiplying and die out in a completely natural and proven way.

BETTER ERGONOMICS
Our outstanding SoftTech™ technology provides a cushioning effect that makes the floor much more pleasant to walk on and gives it far better ergonomic performance than ordinary laminate flooring.