Does anyone have pergo or other comparable floors in their house. If anyone does, was it really expensive to purchase and install?? I am thinking of putting it in a finished basement of a house I am purchasing. Thanks in advance !

I got it on sale for $0.94/sq ft or something, and we installed it - it was pretty easy.

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I think ours was 1.99 a sq foot, and we installed ours with no problem.

In fact we are doing the hall and bedroom next.

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I have it and love it! Very easy to install and less expensive than wood.

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We used laminate in our basement and installed it ourselves. We had a wide span to cover and lots of corners and posts to go around, so it wasn't quite so easy. But we still got it done in two days. It's great as long as you have a dry basement (which I assume you do).

we have the same flooring as piano lady does...ours was 99 cents per square foot and we did the living room and the kitchen and it looks great....it took us one day to do both rooms.

We put laminate flooring in ds's bedroom. I don't remember the cost, but we had it finished in one afternooon.
One word of caution -- watermarks really show up. I mean, if the cat walks across it with wet paws, for example, you'll see paw marks. If you wash the floor and someone steps on it before it's dry, you see the footprints.

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We've owned Pergo since it first came out and you had to order it direct from Europe. They've made lots of improvements over the years. One thing that has improved is it's resistence to moisture. Pergo used to swell when it got wet. With our latest Pergo floor, I tested it by soaking a scrap piece in a bucket of water for 24 hours - not a millimeter of swelling! I also subjected a scrap piece to an open flame. It not only didn't catch fire, it didn't even char!

I love Pergo.

When installing it in a basement that MIGHT get wet, they recommend that you put down a moisture barrier to control the amount of expanding / contracting the material does. You probably also want to put down extra padding just to keep the noise down and maybe some area rugs on top of it. My only recommendation is I wouldn't glue the panels together in a basement. Just incase there is a flood, I'd want to unlock all the panels, dry up the floor and re-install it.

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We installed it ourselves at our old house and we are currently shopping around for us to install downstairs in our family room. It is very easy and once you get going it goes quick!

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Dh actually left a couple scrap pieces out in the rain for 2 days. When they dried, you couldn't tell they'd been soaked. We couldn't believe it. Quality must have gone way up over the first laminate floors that came out. The thicker the laminate layer, the better imo. There was one really inexpensive one that we looked at that had a super thin layer of laminate, we passed on that one.