Reader’s Question:

Jaime asks:

We are installing laminate throughout our main floor.  We have narrowed our favorites down to a MANNINGTON laminate ($4.59/sq ft) with a 25 year warranty (available at our local family run flooring store as well as larger retailers) and PERGO Elite laminate ($3.99/sq ft) with a 30 year warranty and it has the underpad already on it (a savings of $0.75/sq ft we would have to purchase for the MANNINGTON floor).

I can’t find info on the PERGO website about the Elite line carried by Home Depot.  Would you recommend one over the other?  Is the price difference due to the high volume Home Depot can buy, or does it speak to the quality of the PERGO floor?  Home Depot says PERGO is the best flooring available, and our local flooring store says the same about the MANNINGTON line.  Any wisdom?