Pergo Laminate Flooring – The Possibilities Are Endless

Are you looking for a change in the look of your home? Are you considering engaging in a DIY flooring project installing Pergo Laminate Flooring? Are you wondering which rooms in the house could have the flooring replaced with Pergo Laminate Flooring? Pergo Laminate Flooring is so versatile it can be installed in virtually every room in your house.

Aside from the obvious places, such as the living room, dining room, and bedrooms, you can also install Pergo Laminate Flooring in your kitchen and bathrooms, if you so desire. But won’t it get ruined, you might ask? Pergo Laminate Flooring planks are made with a water resistant surface, which allows for this type of flooring to be installed in rooms that typically experience high humidity.

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This high humidity is typically found in kitchens and bathrooms where water is often spilled on the floor. If you choose to install Pergo Laminate Flooring in your bathroom and/or kitchen, you will need to seal the expansion spaces (those spaces between the walls or cabinets and the flooring planks) with Pergo Sealant or some other type of mildew-resistant silicone product.

This sealant must be applied prior to installing any trim or molding at the expansion spaces. Some professionals also suggest using glue to seal the joints. Always consult the manufacturer regarding their recommendations on how to install their specific product. Also remember that just because the flooring planks have a water-resistant surface, it doesn’t mean that you can leave standing water on it. This can ruin your floor.

But what about other areas of your home? Certainly hallways are good areas for the installation of Pergo, but how about stairs? Although the installation of Pergo Laminate Flooring may be a little tricky on the stairs, this flooring is great on stairs. Pergo even has a product, called Pergo Stair Nosing, to help with the nuances of stairs. In essence, the Pergo Stair Nosing is affixed to the steps with a construction-type adhesive and finishing screws.

Still worried that your DIY laminate flooring won’t have a professional look to it? There are many options to add a special touch to your floors that many of your visitors will assume could only be done by a professional. For instance, there are many types of color-coordinated transition moldings that you can install. There are “T-moldings”, which are used in thresholds, and “end moldings”, which are installed around bathtubs/showers and along sliding doors. These various options will give your flooring a nice, finished look with a touch of class.

You may be concerned about your flooring making a hollow sound when it is walked on. The sounds that your flooring makes when you walk on it is typically a function of how thick the laminate flooring is and the sub-floor layer. You can help avoid this hollow sound with the installation of a sound underlayment product and a resin polyethylene film, which goes under the flooring planks. Not only will this help reduce the noise made when walking on your laminate flooring, but it also serves as an additional barrier for moisture to intrude onto your floor. This, in turn, helps make your floor last longer.

In our every day life, we work our floors pretty hard—walking on it all day, scuffing it with shoes, dropping objects onto it. As such, your floor will be hard-pressed to escape a few nicks in it. Pergo Finishing Putty is a product designed to help address such situations. You just need to use a small knife to neaten up the damaged portion, clean that area, and fill the nick with the putty. Use a spatula to smooth the putty and wipe away any extra putty from the floor. If you have more serious damage to the floor, you can purchase replacement flooring planks.