Choose A Laminate Floor

Laminate flooring is the flooring option with tremendous versatility at an affordable price. It gives you a durable, hard wearing surface that can take heavy traffic while maintaining the finish that it came with. Laminate is easy to install, it comes these days with an easy clic lock or snap together joints that does away with the older system of glue.

Laminate flooring can be made to look like a traditional wood floor, or it can look like a slate floor without the expense of the real thing and without using up the resources that would otherwise come from making the real thing.

Maintenance of laminate floors is a minimal job, an easy task of vacuuming or sweeping with only an occasional wipe required with a cleaner to keep it looking its best.

The great thing about laminate flooring is that all of the premium features and advantages such as durability, quality and versatility come as a standard feature. Laminated floor planks and floating floor gives you a floor that appears almost identical to the types of floors you would pay much much more for.

Here is just a small taste of the quality companies that manufacture and install some of the most desirable laminate flooring options available.

Quick-Step Laminate provides a vast range of laminate floor options that repliacte the full gamut of wood floorboards or tiles. With at least eleven ranges to choose from and an easy to install Uniclic instalation system, Quick-Step is a laminate floor option that is hard to go past.

The range of Quick-Step laminate floor options includes :

Country Collection - a laminate floor option that exudes country charm.

Elegance 8mm - this is a great flooring option for busy families that is easy to install and maintain.

Home 7mm Collection - this is another hard wearing option that is made in 7mm think planks.

Perspective 4-Sided Long Plank Bevel Edge - this is an amazing laminate flooring option that looks like authentic wood. It gives you the look of a solid plank floor but the ease of a laminate installation.

Quick-Step CLIC 8mm Plank White Box - this range features the options of Beech, Oak or Cherry that gives you a wood floor on a budget.

The Quick-Step is far, far more extensive than the examples given above and can best be experienced by finding your local laminate flooring specialist and browsing through the full range of choices.

Check out the entire Quick Step laminate flooring range.

Mannington is a laminate flooring company that began as a small family business and has grown to be one of the leading companies in the industry. The company has an enviable reputation as an innovative when it comes to forward design and style. Looking through the range of Mannington laminate flooring confirms this general opinion with som very impressive looking laminates.

When you look upon the Mannington range of laminate flooring options you are faced with an enormous choice of quality floor coverings that range from the premium to budget price range. The options include wood, slate, stone and cork patterns and each of those in a range of different colors.

At the premium end of the spectrum is the Mannington iCore range of laminates features the patented iNNERCore construction which not only gives the range superior durability but is a waterproof laminate that can be used with confidence in bathrooms and kitchens.

To give you an example of the range of flooring options that you can get, the iCore Collection alone comes in 10 finishes: Natural Louisiana Pecan, Spice Argentine Rosewood, Natural Antique Oak, Natural Blue Mountain Cherry, Natural American Oak, Honey American Oak, Natural Argentine Rosewood, Natural Vermont Maple, Natural Queensland Laurel, Spice Antique Oak.

There are many types of laminate flooring options to choose from, just visit the Mannington website.

Columbia Flooring makes a strong range of laminate flooring options featuring wood and tile choices. Colubia flooring recently went through a rebranding process that took the company on the path of delivering a product that had a more fashion-forward look. Columbia is also fiercely determined to uphold its environmentally friendly stance using recycled materials in the manufacture of its laminates.

Columbia Flooring provides a beautiful range of laminate flooring options with wood flooring that replicates aged hardwood or a solid plank floor. Alternatively the tile laminates give you either a slate or ceramic tile look at a fraction of the price.

Wood options available from Columbia include Castille Clic, Colonial Clic, Cadence Clic, Cachet Clic. In the tile laminate range you've got options such as Cascade Clic and Ceramica Clic.

All of these laminate flooring options from Columbia come with the new Uniclic technology that makes the installation quick, easy and mess-free. It also allows the floor to be walked on immediately after installation.

Visit the Columbia Flooring website for a look at the complete range of laminate options available.