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We pulled up the carpet last year and my DH, my ex, and my BIL installed it. Not the greatest job as several planks have separated with no easy way to close the gaps. It has been months and I still am waiting for them to finish putting the molding and quarter round stripping on in some places. If I had to do it over, I'd pay someone, and we wouldn't have purchased from a liquidation company...would go for the Pergo. Half tempted to get my carpet back...

As for clean up, I use a broom and dust pan, or my little Swiffer vac, and then use The Shark. The dogs do well with walking on it and don't really slide. I love being able to put my area rugs on it...very versatile.

I have Pergo in my living room and my little guy Dex can not jump on the couch ... its just too slippery... when they run from the tile to the pergo they slide when trying to stop and more than once have hit their little head on the sliding glass door. Luckily not too hard. If you go pergo get some throw rugs... oh yeah also my boys do have accidents in the house and it has started to lift the seams of the pergo a bit in places. I moved into the house like this and it looks nice... but if i had to replace it I would go with hardwood, not pergo again.

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Originally Posted by Izzy Princess (Post 2558158)

I have had both beautiful hardwood and now laminate. I loved my hardwood kitchen floor but boy even with it protected it got scratched and dented so much. I didn't have Izzy with the hardwood but have 3 cats with only back claws and you should have seen all the scratches from them. Even us humans with our shoes showed scuff and scratch marks. It looked terrible. So about 3 years ago we ripped all that hardwood out:( and installed the interlocking laminate.:D Wow I love, love it. Doesn't scratch has held up with Izzy and it's funny - when she gets the zoomies with the cats she has learned to take her corners very well:rolleyes: and not slide into anything. It's funny to see how fast they adapt to the floor.

Hahaha....no pee problems but I have one throw rug by our front door..and wham..that's Izzy's fav if I don't catch her by the patio door to go outside.;)

Oh and cleaning is sooo easy with the laminate - get your Swiffer Wet Jet and that's all you need. Or if you want to go natural - your water and vinegar solution works.

We actually have hardwood in the Living Room, Tile in the Kitchen and Carpet in the Family Room. The hardwood hasn't held up well at all, you can see every water spot and scratches. Although we clean up accidents right away, you could still see the spot on the hardwood floor.
So I am hoping Laminate will be a much better experience. I do know it doesn't scratch as easily as the guy at Lowes took a knife to one to show me how it holds up to scratching and I was pretty impressed.

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Originally Posted by LuvMySissy (Post 2558312)

We have Pergo in our living room and a very inexpensive wood looking laminate from Ikea in our office and spare bedroom. What a world of difference between the two. The Pergo installs pretty easily. Our is not sealed and we have had no issues with cleaning up the occasional pee spot with a Fantanstic-like solution. The girls do not slip on this at all.

The cheap stuff does not install easily - even though it says simple snap and lock. Although it cleans well, it siply doesn't fit together like a higher end brand does, so wetness will seep into the cracks. It is very slippery as well - even for humans with socks on!!!!!!

Both floors are very easily cleaned with my Shark steam mop. I don't like usually chemicals of any kind and the floors are almost dry when I'm done with them.

We saw a few of the cheaper brands that we liked but we figured to go with the Pergo as the guarantee is much longer and is suppose to hold up better. Looks like that was a good decision!!

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Originally Posted by jeanietoo (Post 2558087)

If you have dogs who have lots of accidents the liquid will seep into the cracks and smell. We ended up having vinyl installed. Almost the whole room is one continous sheet so no seams for urine to leak into. I do have 5 dogs and 2 are elderly. One of them is blind and sometimes can't find her way to the pee pad or to the door to get out. It may not be as pretty but have saved me a world of clean up problems

I am hoping that if we seal all the edges with the glue/sealant that was suggested that this wouldn't be a problem. We have linoleum in the puppy room and they found a way of making a hole in it and then from there tearing it up.:eek:
So we really can only go with tile or laminate.

We have tile in the kitchen and it is just wonderful!! So easy to take care of and you don't have to worry about accidents. The only downside is, it is always soooo cold!!
The family room was built over a huge crawl space so there is no installation so the floor gets cold. Laminate would still be warmer than tile I would think.

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Originally Posted by Ellie May (Post 2558141)

I find that smaller dogs don't have a problem on hard floors and larger dogs do.

I think you are right on this. I know with the hardwood in the Living Room, the bigger dogs seem to slide and slip more than the yorkies. It scares me to death each time they do this, I am so afraid of them hurting their hips. This is why we are thinking of switching the two rooms around. Putting carpet in the Living room as this is the bigger dog's favorite room while laminate in the Family room would work better for puppies.

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Originally Posted by celstu1 (Post 2559694)

We were actually planning on having a big rug around the couch. That way they can get some traction in some areas. And then when we have puppies we can just roll it up.
The adults we don't have to worry about with accidents as they are well trained. It is having puppies and going through the process of training them where accidents occur.

Thanks everyone for your input!! I have a lot to think about and consider!!

If it wasn't so expensive I would just have tile put in with heating underneath as I know tile holds up beautifully. If only it wasn't so pricey.

I have had my laminate down for almost a year. Mine was not glued at the seams and if you have a pee accident that sits over a seam it will swell up the laminate. Other than finding that out I love the floors and they are so easy to take care of. I am a breeder and my dogs are trained for the washable pee pads but they do have an occasional accident off the edge of a pad. It is fine if I catch it right away otherwise it does lift the flooring.