laminate flooring 21 March 2006 at 11:38AM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in N. Ireland 20 replies 12.1K views

master_blaster_2

hi folks
im looking for some laminate flooring and was wondering where is the best (cheepest) place to buy it ... it doesnt need to be top quality but something half decent .

thanks

andrew
btw im in the greater belfast area but some where in ards bangor is cool

Busybody

B&Q have a good selection also Homebase and Wickes, We were thinking of getting some for our dining/office room a while ago then thought of going down the real wood 'laminate' type needless to say we thought it was a bit dear and still have not bothered. I wish we had stuck to our original idea!!

mirakl

Try out the smaller local places, you can usually bargain them down a bit. I also got some from the Wooden Floor Warehouse on the Boucher Road

arkonite_babe

Another one to consider is possibly floors 2 go?? I am not sure what the prices are like, but they seem to have quite a few branches springing up round NI now. Might be worth a look??

Here's the web address for you:

http://www.floors2go.co.uk/

Shellybee

For standard Laminate I would say B&Q, wouldn't try Floors2go. I visited the Portadown store and they couldn't match B&Q.

AceCobra

The best deal you'll get at the moment is at the floor store. We got got some branded Ac3 graded (light commerical) textured vgroove stuff on sale. It was down from £13 a square metre to £6. The equiv stuff in eveywhere else (b&q, homebase, floors2go) ranges from £13-£25

Hope that helps.


Martin.

Cee

Busybody wrote:

B&Q have a good selection also Homebase and Wickes, We were thinking of getting some for our dining/office room a while ago then thought of going down the real wood 'laminate' type needless to say we thought it was a bit dear and still have not bothered. I wish we had stuck to our original idea!!

Tell me where Wickes is in N Ireland please

fredy34

i would give a word of warning. Avoid the cheapest stuff from B&Q its not very robust. Will work fine somewhere like a spare room but not in a livingroom. Some of the 'clicky' bits broke off as i was fitting it.

Worries me a bit when i come to doing the living room. How do i know what stuff is good or bad?

f

ivanwilson

Cee wrote:

Tell me where Wickes is in N Ireland please

No Wickes in NI I'm afraid.

cosmile

fredy34 wrote:

i would give a word of warning. Avoid the cheapest stuff from B&Q its not very robust. Will work fine somewhere like a spare room but not in a livingroom. Some of the 'clicky' bits broke off as i was fitting it.

Worries me a bit when i come to doing the living room. How do i know what stuff is good or bad?

f

i did ds bedroom in b&q cheapest laminate,and it was easy to lay,no broken bits here..and it looks great.

maybe you had a bad batch.

Shellybee

cosmile wrote:

i did ds bedroom in b&q cheapest laminate,and it was easy to lay,no broken bits here..and it looks great.

maybe you had a bad batch.

Same here only we done the Lounge and Hall in our old house, went down no problems and was lasting well.