Laminate Flooring
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Posted: March 25, 2026Categories: Laminate FlooringRead more »
Choosing between LVT and engineered wood flooring is one of the most common decisions buyers face. Both look great, are popular, and suit a wide range of homes. But they are very different products, built from different materials and designed with different priorities in mind. This guide breaks down exactly what sets them apart, so you can pick the right floor for your room with confidence.
What is LVT flooring?
LVT stands for Luxury Vinyl Tile. It is a multi-layered synthetic flooring product, typically made up of a rigid or semi-rigid core, a printed design layer, and a protective wear layer on top. The wear layer is what gives LVT its durability and thickness and determines how much foot traffic the floor can handle. LVT is 100% waterproof throughout, making it a genuinely practical choice for wet or high-humidity rooms. It is available in a wide range of highly realistic wood and stone-effect designs.
What is engineered wood flooring?
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Posted: March 25, 2026Categories: Laminate FlooringRead more »
Laminate is one of the most widely purchased floor coverings in the UK, and it is easy to see why. It delivers a convincing wood or stone-effect finish at a fraction of the cost of the real thing, installs without specialist tools, and handles everyday household wear well. But not all laminate is the same. Thickness, AC rating, wear layer, joint type, and finish all affect how a laminate performs and how long it lasts. This guide covers everything you need to make a confident buying decision.
What is laminate flooring?
Laminate flooring is a multi-layer synthetic product engineered to replicate the look of natural wood or stone. The surface layer carries a photographic print of the chosen design, while the layers beneath provide structural strength, stability, and moisture resistance. The result is a floor that looks like wood or stone but is more affordable, easier to install, and simpler to maintain.
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Posted: July 28, 2025Categories: Laminate Flooring
Read more »When considering new flooring options, it’s common to forget about the underlay, or to just go for whatever underlay type you first see available.
However, in reality, underlay plays a key role in the overall comfort and performance of your carpet. What’s more, it is available in a range of different varieties, each offering their own specific benefits and best-fit use cases.
As a result, it’s imperative that you take the time to also explore the different types of underlay on offer, and choose the right underlay for your specific requirements.
Keep reading to find out more about the different types of underlay, their use cases and benefits, and why underlays are such an integral part of any new flooring project.
What are the main types of underlay?
There are a number of different underlay types available, each of which is designed
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Posted: June 27, 2025Categories: Laminate Flooring
Read more »Laminate flooring is a hugely popular choice in homes and commercial spaces. This is all down to its neat, stylish appearance, alongside the durability that it offers, at an affordable price point.
Laminate is a fantastic, low maintenance and cost-effective alternative to hardwood flooring and carpets.
When it is installed correctly, by a professional flooring installer like Floor Giants, laminate flooring should continue looking flawless for many years to come.
However, a low quality installation can lead to the laminate encountering performance issues over time.
Below, we’ll share our guide to some of the most common laminate flooring issues - bubbling, peeling, curing and lifting - and explain how you can stop them occurring in your flooring.
What are the benefits of laminate flooring?
The main benefits
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Posted: April 30, 2025Categories: Laminate FlooringRead more »
Vinyl flooring is a go-to for many property owners, not only for all property types shapes and sizes, but all room types within a property, too.
In addition to being durable and cost-effective, vinyl flooring is available in a huge variety of colours, designs and styles, meaning there’s a best-match out there for everyone!
At Floor Giants, we offer an extensive range of vinyl flooring varieties. In this guide, we’ll explore two of the most popular vinyl flooring options: glue down vinyl and click down vinyl.
Keep reading to find out more about each type, their differences, and their most effective use cases.
What is glue down vinyl flooring?
Glue down vinyl flooring or dryback LVT is a type of vinyl flooring,
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Posted: March 14, 2025Read more »
Vinyl flooring is one of the most popular flooring varieties, widely used in both domestic and commercial properties.
It is renowned for not only its durability, but also its versatility, coming in an extensive range of styles and colours. For instance, at Floor Giants, we have a huge variety of vinyl flooring options on sale, to suit every property type, style and budget.
If you know that vinyl flooring is the right fit for your property, but aren’t sure how to narrow down your design options, keep reading. Below, we’ve shared our handy guide for choosing the best-fit luxury vinyl flooring style for your property.
What are the benefits of vinyl flooring?
Vinyl flooring offers a number of unique advantages.
Its main benefits include:
- Available in a wide range of design options (more on this below)
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Posted: February 21, 2024
Read more »Laminate flooring is one of the most popular types of flooring out there, and it’s easy to see why.
There are a huge range of benefits to laminate flooring, including impressive durability, scratch resistance, low maintenance and moisture resistance, with finishes such as natural laminate flooring offering a realistic wood look. Plus, not only is it highly affordable and available in a huge range of different styles, but it is also renowned for its ease of installation.
Laminate flooring can be installed as a floating floor. This means that this flooring type does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor, making laminate flooring installation significantly quicker and easier - even if you’re a complete DIY rookie.
To help you see how straightforward it is to lay laminate flooring, our flooring experts have shared their complete step by step guide to the process below.
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Posted: March 08, 2022Categories: Laminate Flooring
Read more »We find a lot of customers asking “Which Laminate Flooring is the best?“. An open-ended question, yes, but one that is backed by technical specifications and AC Ratings. We will go through different aspects of laminate, everything from durability to why laminate flooring generally shouldn’t be used in a bathroom. There will also be Pros & Cons of Laminate Flooring in this article, which will help you in making the right choice on whether laminate flooring is the best choice for you.
