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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Cheap laminate does all that. Expensive laminate not so much particularly if they use proper glue. Having said that, I did dent my oak laminate flooring with a 12" crescent wrench I dropped.
Nice score on the flooring freebeard. Are you good using mush board underlayment instead of plywood? It's cheaper, water resistant.
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My daughter dropped a cast iron skillet from the counter onto the cherry floors, and it left a dent. They've held up to the several times water has overflowed the dishwasher due to the drain hose going straight up to the disposal, instead of having an extra loop above it to prevent drain-back from water flowing down the drain and backing up in the disposal. Laminate would have been destroyed the first time.
When the fridge in my rental house had a leak, it warped the laminate. Fortunately it's behind the fridge, so who cares. It just happens to be the exact click-lock laminate used in my parents house, so we've got extra pieces if we ever want to tear apart the floors and make repairs.
I'm not totally against laminate, I just wouldn't use it in a rental or where animals might pee, or with kids.