The 4 biggest benefits of choosing laminate flooring.

Laminate flooring is one of the most popular timber flooring options available today. If you’re currently installing or updating your floors, you should definitely consider laminate if you haven’t already. 

There are plenty of great reasons to choose laminate for your home. Below, we’ll break down the reasons why laminate floors are one of our favourite timber flooring choices. 

1. It’s durable and easy to clean.

Laminate floors are a multi-layer synthetic flooring product. It starts off with a base that’s generally made from several thin pieces of pressed, processed timber. This gives it a solid, hardwood-like feel underfoot. Then, a photographic layer is laid on top that resembles timber, tiles, or the style of your choice. 

Finally, a thick, protective melamine resin ‘wearing layer’ is then applied over the top of the print. This ‘wearing layer’ is incredibly durable. It will hold up much better than traditional timber when it comes to dealing with scratches, scuffs and moisture. This makes laminate floors a great choice for high-traffic areas like hallways or even kitchens. 

One thing though – as a timber product, laminate is still not completely waterproof. This makes it unsuitable for laundries and bathrooms, where the risk of a serious water spill is much higher. For these areas, consider Hybrid Flooring, a  timber-free product similar to laminate that visually looks like timber but is 100% waterproof.

Laminate is also great for people with pets and young kids, or for those who are nervous about renting out their investment properties. Compared to traditional timber, you won’t really have to worry about your heavy furniture, or making sure everyone always takes off their shoes.

2. Laminate floors are very affordable

Laminate floors are a synthetic product. That means they use a small amount of natural timber, and it’s already been highly processed. This makes laminate floors much more affordable than hardwood or even timber veneer floors. 

Over the years, this accessible price range has given laminate a bit of a reputation as a purely low-quality ‘budget’ flooring material. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Laminate technology has come a long way, and these days there are plenty of high-quality laminate flooring options available in every price range. 

If you’re building or renovating on a tight budget, laminate is a great way to get a realistic-looking timber style floor without copping the outrageous costs of hardwood. 

3. It’s easy to install over any type of subfloor or floor.

This is one of the biggest benefits of laminate flooring. It’s very versatile and can be quickly installed on almost any kind of subfloor, including concrete. Many houses have subfloors that are unsuitable for timber floors, so timber-style laminate floors can be a great solution.

You can even lay laminate flooring over pre-existing vinyl floors using a ‘floating’ technique. Floating a floor is a method of interlocking the floor sections so that they hold each other in place. Floating your laminate floors means you won’t need nails, staples or even glue!

This makes laminate a great choice for DIY renovators. It’s so easy to install that most people could confidently do it themselves. 

4. It comes in a wide variety of styles.

Finally, laminate gives you an unmatched level of choice when it comes to choosing a style. Because laminate flooring uses a photographic print to give the impression of timber, there’s no limit to the different styles and patterns you can print.

Higher-end laminate floors – like the ones we stock here at Multifors – are almost visually indistinguishable from real timber, with realistic patterns that don’t repeat too frequently. 

Laminate gives you the freedom to choose whatever style you’d like, without having to worry about the quirks and differing price points that come with choosing different hardwoods.

Overall, laminate flooring is a great choice. It’s durable, easy to clean, and provides the look and feel of traditional timber flooring for a fraction of the cost. Best of all, there’s an endless variety of styles out there to choose from.

At Multifors, we stock a select range of high-quality laminate floors that have been designed to look convincingly like real timber. If you’d like to learn more about laminate flooring or ask a question about our products, get in touch with us today.