Los Angeles Laminate Flooring

Laminate flooring in Los Angeles has risen from the ranks of economy flooring to one of the most frequently installed flooring products in the metropolitan area. That’s saying a lot for a product that just a decade or two past was mostly known as a cheap knock-off of attractive hardwood flooring.

Today’s laminate flooring, however, is not only is it more durable and easy to install than it’s ever been (which is saying something if you know anything about laminate’s long celebrated status as a front-runner in those departments), but advances in technology have also vaulted laminate flooring from cheap hardwood flooring imitation to a flooring material that any homeowner can be proud of in the looks department.

Despite its popularity, most homeowners find themselves at a loss when asked to describe what laminate flooring really is. At the risk of oversimplifying it, laminate flooring in Los Angeles is composed of four elements all bonded together under high pressure to create the flooring planks that you install in your home.

The elements of laminate flooring:

• The underside of laminate flooring starts with a water-resistant layer that prevents moisture from working up through the subfloor into the product’s core. The core itself is a high density fiberboard product that gives the flooring its strength.
• A high resolution image is applied on top of the core to give the floor its look. The reason you see what looks exactly like bamboo flooring is because it actually is a really big photograph!
• Finally, the surface is finished off with the scratch and impact resistant clear coating that makes laminate one of the most durable flooring products around.

Los Angeles Laminate Flooring: Choosing a Finish

The rising fame of Los Angeles laminate flooring is largely thanks to the explosion of choices that the industry now provides homeowners. Aside from being durable and easy to install, laminate flooring is available in convincing designs from oak to ceramic tile imitations. Throw in realistic textures, a choice of plank widths, and even beveled and “hand scraped” flooring planks and it’s easy to see that laminate isn’t a cheap hardwood imitation any longer.

Los Angeles Laminate Flooring Affordability

Quality laminate flooring can be purchased and installed for less than $5 per square foot, which is more than half of what you’ll pay for installing traditional materials like hardwood flooring and stone tile, and that’s a conservative estimate. Furthermore, while the price of laminate flooring varies depending on quality (you should expect to pay higher prices the more realistic and unique your choice of laminate flooring gets), the pendulum swings both ways. Keep an eye out for sales, and install the laminate yourself, and it’s not unusual to find laminate flooring moving off the shelves for less than a dollar per square foot.

Los Angeles Laminate Flooring Installation

It would be an understatement to say that laminate is one of the most homeowner friendly flooring materials in the industry when it comes to installation. To be fair, the lure of easy laminate flooring installation has been known to get inexperienced homeowners into trouble. But the fact that laminate flooring in Los Angeles is a “floating” floor product, combined with newer click together lines in which the flooring planks literally snap together, makes this flooring about as DIY friendly as flooring gets.

Of course, don’t feel bad if you don’t feel qualified to do the job, or if you’re just too busy to set aside the time it takes to do it on your own. Whether you do it yourself or hire out the job, you are sure to have a beautiful, durable, and inexpensive floor you will be proud of for years and years.

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