| to install, glueless laminate flooring uses the tongue | | | | time. |
| and groove interlocking method instead of glue. | | | | Because they are engineered, laminate floors come in |
| Laminate floors are sometimes referred to as floating | | | | a variety of patterns and styles. Some looks more |
| floors because they are not actually connected in any | | | | like ceramic tile than wood and other types look |
| way to the subfloor. These floors can be installed | | | | almost exactly like real wood. There are some |
| over existing ceramic floors as well, which can be a | | | | offered now that actually come with a real hardwood |
| huge time saver. | | | | veneer, so the top part of your laminate is actually |
| Another nice things about laminate wood flooring is | | | | real wood! |
| that it expands and contracts as a whole. Since it is | | | | Most glueless laminate floors need a moisture barrier |
| connected to itself but not the floor beneath, swelling | | | | of some kind beneath them. You can get just a |
| and shrinking is hardly noticeable. For this reason you | | | | simple plastic underlay sheet and that would provide |
| never want to connect your floating floor with any | | | | adequate protection. You could spend a bit more and |
| fixed object in the room. If you do the expansion | | | | get a noise reduction underlay that would protect |
| could cause buckling and rippling throughout your | | | | your flooring from moisture and also help prevent |
| floor. | | | | squeaking. This costs only slightly more and is a much |
| Obviously glueless floors will be less messy to install | | | | better investment in your floors future. |
| than a glued laminate covering, but the difference in | | | | Glueless laminate flooring is easy, durable, fashionable, |
| installation time is amazing. A typical tongue and | | | | and affordable. You can easily go wrong with |
| groove glued floor will take roughly 8 hours to | | | | hardwood and be stuck with it. Laminate is easy to |
| complete a 400 square foot area. With glueless floors | | | | remove if you decide later on that it's not for you. |
| you can complete the same area in close to half the | | | | |