Laminate flooring is the revolutionary new floor covering that combines the beauty of wood or more imaginative designs with a durability that sets it apart from all other traditional types of flooring. Learn more about what makes Pergo so durable.

Pergo's line of floors includes three distinct products: Pergo  Original , Pergo Select, Pergo Paradigm and Pergo Accolade which is also ideal for light commercial applications.

Together, these products have redefined flooring. Flooring no longer needs to be delicate or hard to care for to look great! Just look at all of the great benefits that Pergo can give you:

It's beautiful
Pergo's floors consist of planks that come in dozens of beautiful wood grains or other designs. It's also protected by an outstanding warranty against wear through, stains and fading that guarantees that years from now, it will be as beautiful as the day it was installed.

It's durable
A Pergo laminate consists of several layers bonded together by a special process that makes the surface extraordinarily durable. Pergo Original's surface is about 25 times more durable than a kitchen countertop. Pergo is ideally suited for the wear and tear of day-to-day living: kids, animals, spills, heavy traffic and general hard knocks.

Pergo's commercial flooring grade, Pergo Select, is 40% more wear-resistant than Pergo Original, so it can take the demand of a high traffic environment.

Easy (very, very easy) care
Not only is the floor beautiful and durable, but it is also extremely easy to care for. Never wax, sand or refinish. Just give it a quick vacuuming (without beater bars, of course) or once-over with a damp mop. And it's so impermeable that tar, nail polish and oil come right up with a little acetone (nail polish remover).

It won't fade
Sunlight will not fade Pergo. You'll never see the sun-faded outline of a rug or bookcase even if it's been in one spot for years.

It's a floating floor
Because a Pergo plank is a floating floor, it can be installed over most old floors. It's a floating floor, which means that it is not nailed or glued down to the subfloor. This has several advantages:

• Installation is easy and less expensive, since it doesn't require a special subfloor.

• Glue is needed only in the joints between planks.

• Some products like Pergo Express click together with out glue!
  
  

• It's usually possible to install on top of the old floor.

• A professional can easily replace a damaged plank.

Pergo's Constructuion

Pergo's laminate is 80% wood based material. Through modern composite technology, we've taken advantage of wood's strengths as a flooring material and added some strengths of our own.

We manufacture the core with wood left over from sawmills and other industries--a highly efficient use of resources. The composite is formed into planks approximately 47 inches long, 8 inches wide and a third of an inch thick. It is composed of three layers. Each layer has a particular purpose, making its own contribution to the floor's performance.

1. Surface layer - The extremely durable surface layer consists of melamine resin combined with pure cellulose paper. This layer is reinforced with microscopic hard particles, making the residential flooring laminate about 25 times more wear-resistant than the laminate on a kitchen countertop. The commercial grade is a whopping 35 times more durable than a countertop.

2. Decorative layer - A decorative layer of paper and transparent melamine resin, completely cured, displays the fine detail of the design.

3. Base layer - This sealed layer of material gives the floor's surface remarkable strength and heat resistance. It conducts so efficiently that the heat from a cigarette, for instance, spreads out too quickly to burn the floor!

Pergo's patented base layers together with the patented core construction also provide superior balancing for minor subfloor irregularities and provide enough moisture resistance for use in bathrooms.

The process used to make Pergo's surface layer results in a High Pressure Laminate, which is the highest quality laminate available today. Learn more about the differences between High Pressure Laminate and other types of laminate: