Bruce Park Avenue and Armstrong Grand Illusions
If you’ve been considering purchasing a new floor in your house, you may want to consider the look of exotic woods. Offering far away beauty and a look that makes you feel right at home, exotic wood is more luxurious than standard wood or carpet. When considering your options, be sure to remember that laminate flooring is a good choice for your home, as an alternative to real exotic wood.
Bruce Park Avenue and Armstrong Grand Illusions, for example, make absolutely beautiful floors. The high-gloss, piano finish that protects the various species of exotic styled laminate is breathtaking, as is the price. At less than half what you might pay for real exotic wood floors, you can walk away with the same look and feel (with an easier installation) for as little as under $5 per foot, installed. Not only does this product give the appearance of real exotic woods without impacting the forest, but it is also eight times more reesistant to scratches and other wear than engineered wood.
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I recently (3 months ago) installed a park avenue makore floor. The floor did look beautiful when I installed it. However, it is NOT holding up well. It doesn’t scratch, but it dings VERY easily. Even worse, we pulled out our couch to clean, and found that it had completely worn under one of the legs. It may have been that our 5 year old daughter had jumped on the couch. However, she is not particularly rough on furniture–a pretty typical 5 year old– and the salesman said that laminate is much tougher than hardwood. To me, the finish seems soft, and I am very upset. The warranty is essentially useless if you installed yourself.
Joe,
Sorry to hear about your bad experience. I believe it’s the first I’ve heard of someone not being satisfied with these lines of flooring, so thanks for letting us know.
Unfortunately, that’s the way most flooring warranties are worded, so that installation has to be by a professional, or it’s not worth much. It is usually up to the salesperson to let the consumer know this, and unfortunately, there’s a lot of them out there that are just out to make a sale.
As far as the wearing under furniture, I’d suggest using leg protectors underneath. They help spread the impact across a wider surface area, reducing wear and tear on the floor.
Small rugs at the entrances to the room can also help catch dirt and debris from shoes, and help to reduce the amount of scratching that occurs.
If you have any questions for us, please just let us know.
Thanks for reading!