Have you heard about Pergo flooring? Pergo is a brand of laminate flooring, and many who have used it claim it is the best. This flooring option is one of the premium. Shop for laminate and hardwood flooring. PERGO floors are easy to install, simple to maintain and have the industry's best warranties. There's only one PERGO.

Pergo XP Laminate Review. This Pergo XP laminate review is based on my installation in a mobile home. It was installed in the dining room, kitchen and hallway. This product is sold at Home Depot. I guess the XP stands for Extreme Performance. This color I installed is Alexandria Walnut.

Find local contractors to Install Simulated Wood or Stone Laminate Flooring. HomeAdvisor will connect you with prescreened and customer-rated contractors in your area. PERGO ® Laminate offers everything a versatile floor should; different colors, styles and high-performance durability to match any active lifestyle. While tile floors are durable, they're harsh and terrible to walk on. When Pergo Outlast laminate flooring appeared at The Home Depot we gave it a shot. We are the premier destination for flooring shopping, and helpful installation and design tips. Floor types include hardwood floors, laminate flooring, bamboo. Learn all about pergo flooring costs. Read general pergo floor prices, tips and get free pergo laminate estimates. CostOwl.com.

Hello, I have a condo (early 1950s vintage) with oak hardwood flooring. I want to cover it with laminate. The existing floors are kind of shot. Was looking for the.

The Plank size is 4 7/8 inches wide by 4. All four sides have a beveled edge. I always like the narrow boards with the beveled edges as it looks more like hardwood. This Pergo XP uses a drop and lock locking system. Which means that the end drops down and creates the end joint.

It also has an insert made of plastic that holds the end joint down. NOTE: After locking an end joint together and you need to undo it, you have to slide it apart. If you try to lift the end joint up it will damage the edge of the plank. I did have some issues with this plastic insert. In some cases the inserts were out of their groove too far and wouldn't let the adjoining plank drop down and lock. I would have to check as I worked to push the insert in before installing a plank.

And sometimes it just wouldn't drop in place no matter what I did. The other thing I noticed was I saw a quite a few proud edges. This means that one edge of a joint would be a little higher than the other. With the beveled edge it didn't seem too noticeable. The proud edge was minimal. CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLAREThese photos show the beginning of the installation from removing the old flooring to making the correct space at the entry door.

There are some before photos also. Then the finished areas at the bottom. My Pergo XP Laminate, Overall Rating. I liked the floor, it just took some extra time messing a round with the little plastic inserts. Once I had it all installed it felt solid and looks like real hardwood flooring. Write anything about Pergo XP If you or anyone you know has had anything to do with Pergo XP laminate, it would be helpful for all the readers to know anything good or bad about this product. Feel free to report on this product.

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Pergo XP Installation  Not rated yet. I have fitted pergo xp on numerous occasions and find the drop and lock system the quickest and easiest of all the methods. Its only downfall is the strength . Guy working there said he was not on commission, buy whatever you like best but..

Pergo Outlast Laminate Flooring Review. One of the reviewers at Pro Tool Reviews bought a rental home with a large tiled area. The tile occupied both the living and dining areas.

Trouble was, the former owners used two different tiles, and the job was definitely sub- par. Fortuitously, The Home Depot had just started carrying the new Pergo Outlast laminate flooring (actually it’s called Outlast+). As the press release came across my desk, I wondered if this might be a good solution to change the look of that home.

Pergo laminate flooring might just do the trick. While tile floors are durable, they also result in several negative characteristics.

First, they make a home sound very harsh when talking or even watching TV. Second, tile is hard on your feet, so walking on tile is no fun when it covers half your home. For bathrooms and kitchens we say, rock on, but for a living and dining room, wood or engineered wood is much better. SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERSPergo’s Particular Style of Laminate Flooring. Pergo Outlast+ laminate flooring bonds several layers of material together under extreme heat and pressure.

Pergo has been doing this for over 3. The underlayment comes pre- attached to the bottom of each interlocking plank. This thin foam material gives you some cushion when you walk. It also evens out minor floor imperfections, and provides a little bit of barrier below the flooring to protect from moisture.

Above that exists a “balancing” layer. This layer provides stability and keeps each board from easily bowing or collapsing when you walk on it. It’s a sort of stiffener. Next comes the water- resistant HDF (high density fiber) core board, which terminates at click- joints that provide snap- together installation. The fiber board core is dense enough to resist dents from drops, so your floor looks the same 1. The design layer produces both the look and feel of the plank. Pergo Outlast laminate flooring gives you very lifelike patterns and colors from the type of wood represented.

Finally, a water- resistant transparent overlay gives you the texture of real wood along with a Scratch. Guard Advanced and Perma. Max wear layer. This keep the surface of the Pergo laminate flooring scuff and scratch- free for the expected life of the product. Pergo Outlast Features. The Pergo Outlast+ is a product you can take home in the back of your SUV or pickup. It comes boxed in ~1.

Almost 5. 50 square feet will fit on a single pallet. We went with Pergo Outlast Auburn Scraped Oak flooring. The color comes across as a nice dark brown with a slight reddish tint. Each board varies in detail, and lots of nice knots and cracks break up both the color and texture. Once down, you don’t really see a repetition in the pattern.

You’ll want to go to your nearest Home Depot to see each of the colors up close before making a decision. My local store even had free samples available, and Pergo offers samples for $5 (out the door) on their website. Pergo Outlast is designed as an incredibly durable laminate floor. It comes with something Pergo calls Surface. Defense wear protection and Spill. Protect. 24 technology. It claims it can protect the flooring from household spills for up to 2.

The idea is that the Uniclic joint and the materials used can actually hold water out of the seams for that period of time. Pergo Outlast+ Laminate Flooring Finishes. There are 7 different Pergo laminate flooring finishes available in the Outlast+ line: Antique Cherry. Auburn Scraped Oak. Java Scraped Oak. Marigold Oak. Molasses Maple. Vintage Pewter Oak.

Vintage Tobacco Oak. Each has its own attractive look, but you can easily compare them in- store and see which you like for your room. A quick visual sampling of the options follows: Each board measures 1. You get just over 1. The flooring has an AC 4 rating (AC 5 is the highest), which designates it as suitable for commercial and general traffic.

It’s good enough to be used in an office, boutique, or cafe. For the home, the durable should hold up under expected traffic. To make things easier, Pergo Outlast boards include the underlayment already attached.

All you really need to do, is open up the box and install it. SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERSInstalling Pergo Outlast+ Laminate Flooring. First off, this is a floating floor system designed for placement over a flat surface—either wood or concrete. We had a house full of tile—and that meant some serious demo. To facilitate this, we enlisted a few friends AND a Makita rotary hammer with floor scraper attachment. There’s simply no way to remove tile without some serious dust and debris.

To keep the dust out of the adjoining rooms, we opted to use the Zip. Wall Zip. Door kit. We reviewed this system back in 2. Zip. Wall has since added new commercial products, and the line has expanded significantly over the last few years.

Enter the Makita Floor Scraper. After securing the area, we went to town with the 2. Makita SDS- Max HM1. C demo hammer (visit their website for more info). This new demo hammer has Makita AVT technology which reduces vibration dramatically. We inserted the 6.

It features a flexible blade and gives you more ergonomic way to remove tile, linoleum, and adhesives like thinset. It literally blew the tile off the floor. I’d hate to do it every day, but I have to admit that we all had a lot of fun running this tool. Even my army vet buddy (who’s fired 5. Even though this tile was laid on a heart- pine wood floor, the Makita floor scraper made quick work of it without gouging the wood.

It’s a great system that not only popped off all that tile, it also let us go back and remove 9. When we finished, the floor had a smooth surface all ready for prep. Laying a Moisture Barrier. The next step involved laying down some material to use as a moisture barrier.

In Florida, with an old bungalow home, you don’t want to lay down laminate flooring without some way to block moisture and humidity from encroaching via your crawl space. For this we used some tar paper, which laid down easily with a Milwaukee staple and nail gun. We opted for this over a traditional product which would have compounded the cushion of the Pergo Outlast+ built- in underlayment. Tar paper doesn’t allow any more flex—it just provides a barrier.

That Zip. Wall in the background was a lifesaver—keeping a majority of the dust from entering the kitchen. Another was available to block off the hallway leading to the bedrooms. Laying Pergo Laminate Flooring. Yes, that was a lot of prep, but once completed, the Pergo Outlast laminate flooring laid down easily. The steps to installing this flooring is simple. There are basically 7 steps: Inspect each plank and measure/plan your initial line.

Start in a corner if possible, and remove the tongue on the short and long edges of the first row boards. Lay a nice straight line across the room. On both the ends and the wall- sides you need a 3/8- inch gap. That gap will be filled with 1. Use 3/8- inch compressible PE foam backer rod to avoid buying stock in silicone. For uneven walls you’ll want to scribe the wall onto the end plank. On a straight wall you’ll just remove the tongue.

You assemble the first row with the tongue side toward wall. Each plank follows the next by inserting the end tongue into the end groove and rotating downward. All joints should be tightly closed. On your second and subsequent rows, the first piece needs to be at least 8- inches long, so it holds. Call Recording Software For Samsung Chat 322 Review here. In general, you’ll start the next row with the piece you trimmed from the previous row. Make sure there’s at least a foot between joints on adjacent rows of Pergo Outlast laminate flooring. On the second, and subsequent rows, insert the tongue of the new plank at a slight angle into the groove of the first plank.

Leave 1/2- inch gap along the long side—you’ll get to that after the board is down. Rotate the board down until the short edge joints lock. After the short ends are together, raise the outside long edge of the plank up just an inch.