New laminate flooring

TrafficMaster laminate flooring is a very nice choice for your home. It is high-grade laminate flooring for a reasonable price. Home Depot sells it exclusively. Here are some stories of people using it:

I am in the process of installing the Honey Oak Trafficmaster floor from Home Depot. I mainly chose this floor based on price, and ease of installation. The hardest part so far has been tearing out the old glued down press board/wood floor, what a mess!

The second hardest part is remembering the golden rule, “measure twice, cut once”. If I had followed this on each cut, I would have a lot more flooring left over.

I am currently over half way done on a 395 sq. ft. kitchen, entry, dining area in our house built in 1970. This floor looks excellent, and really does just snap together. Follow the directions, and it all goes together rather easily. I used AutoCAD 2002 to layout my floor design, based on the directions. I had a pretty odd space to cover, so it was essential that I get the first 10-20 sq. ft. in correctly, or the rest of the job would not look right.

I hope this helps anyone thinking of installing Trafficmaster in your home. It has a 25 year warranty, and so far looks and feels great.

Presently I am in the process of installing a entire 1700 sq ft. home (minus kitchen and bathrooms) of Avalon in a house we own which my parents occupy. My 90 year old dad developed severe asthma and other allegies and the allergist said the carpeting and curtains gotta go.

So far I have done the master bedroom and the family room and it looks flawless. Next is the living room and then on to the rest of the bedrooms.

Three years ago I installed Trafficmaster red oak veneered flooring in our family room, hallway, and 3 bedrooms and we absolutely love it. My wife is Korean so we do take our shoes off in the house but it so far has been virtually bullet proof. Manufactured in Germany, it doesn’t require a underlayment roll like the laminate.

It is presently on sale at Home Depot and so I bought enough to do the master bedroom. The bathroom is tiled. Now we decided we want to rip out the carpeting in the living room and dining room and install it in there.

So my wife told me to go ahead and buy it and get the show on the road. We absolutely hate carpeting now…I’ve seen the suffering my father is enduring. My brother, who lives in Seattle, tore out his carpeting in 1993 because of allergies and noticed an immediate improvement in his health.

We live in Boise, Idaho and one wouldn’t think we’d suffer the same type of side effects here but the allergist says mites live in the carpeting here just about as well as anywhere else and it is the fecal material of them that gets us. The carpeting in my parent’s house was installed in 1992 and isn’t worn much…but when I pulled it up I felt like I needed a haz material suit…it just felt and smelled “stuffy”.