My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

On Dec 3, 3:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

I'd say "don't do it." If your dishwasher, sink, etc. leaks it will
warp and there's no fixing it but to redo it. Happened to a friend of
mine; he got a sweet deal on rent with the understanding that he'd do
handyman type stuff around the house. His landlady wanted Pergo in
the kitchen and guess what happened...

nate

In article
,
N8N wrote:

On Dec 3, 3:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

I'd say "don't do it." If your dishwasher, sink, etc. leaks it will
warp and there's no fixing it but to redo it. Happened to a friend of
mine; he got a sweet deal on rent with the understanding that he'd do
handyman type stuff around the house. His landlady wanted Pergo in
the kitchen and guess what happened...

nate

I'd say do it, and make sure your dishwasher and sink don't leak. Pergo
looks great in the kitchen.

In article ,
says...

My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

If you like it, and you're going to sell soon, do it. I know several people who
did it, love it, and the wood-look is in style for kitchens so it should be fine
for resell.

If you wait too long to sell, though, the wood floor look for kitchens will be
out of style again (because there are practical issues) and you'll have
prospective buyers figuring in what it takes to put something considered the
fashion at that time. And IME it doesn't take much for people to change plans;
you might be there longer than you think.

So all in all, I think the best thing to do is to do what you *want* and take
whatever the applicable percautions are. If it's Pergo, put in the Pergo, and
be careful about the Pergo, and enjoy the Pergo.

Banty (hates Pergo. Hates it in the kitchen, hates it in the living room.
Hates it on a plate, hates it with a steak.)

On Dec 3, 2:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

We put Pergo in the kitchen a couple years ago and from a practical
point of view it has been fine; no problems with warping or anything,
it seems immune to spills and chairs scraping and it cleans up fine.
I have to say, though, that both my wife and I came to regret it from
an aesthetic standpoint. The fakeness of it just started to grate on
our nerves after a while. Just a personal reaction, I know lots of
people love it. -- H

On Dec 3, 4:51 pm, Heathcliff wrote:
On Dec 3, 2:25 pm, wrote:

My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

We put Pergo in the kitchen a couple years ago and from a practical
point of view it has been fine; no problems with warping or anything,
it seems immune to spills and chairs scraping and it cleans up fine.
I have to say, though, that both my wife and I came to regret it from
an aesthetic standpoint. The fakeness of it just started to grate on
our nerves after a while. Just a personal reaction, I know lots of
people love it. -- H

And also from a resale standpoint, unlike a real wood floor, Pergo
isn't going to add much if anything to the value. The smarter move
may be to use tile in the kitchen, which buyers are going to focus
on. IMO, tile is better suited. But wood can be fine, though it
does have increased risk from any water problems that aren't quickly
found and corrected.

On Dec 3, 2:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

Real hardwood 2 1/4 inch strip oak or maple will hold up better to any
pipe breaks. The wear patina is very nice after a few years too.
Once the masonite substrate of Pergo gets wet it will balloon out and
delaminate badly. Hardwood will simply separate a little but still
look great if it was nail installed once it dries out.

RickH wrote:

Real hardwood 2 1/4 inch strip oak or maple will hold up better to any
pipe breaks. The wear patina is very nice after a few years too.
Once the masonite substrate of Pergo gets wet it will balloon out and
delaminate badly. Hardwood will simply separate a little but still
look great if it was nail installed once it dries out.

I had a fitting leak on a new dishwasher in my house -- very small amount
of drain water, but I didn't catch it for two weeks when my real oak floor
had warped a little. About 4 boards wide and about 2-3 inches long. Not
visibly noticeable unless you get up close (on your knees), but you can
feel it with sock feet.

I suspect it would be possible to sand it out, and over time it seems smoother.

On Dec 3, 5:00 pm, Howard Beale wrote:
RickH wrote:
Real hardwood 2 1/4 inch strip oak or maple will hold up better to any
pipe breaks. The wear patina is very nice after a few years too.
Once the masonite substrate of Pergo gets wet it will balloon out and
delaminate badly. Hardwood will simply separate a little but still
look great if it was nail installed once it dries out.

I had a fitting leak on a new dishwasher in my house -- very small amount
of drain water, but I didn't catch it for two weeks when my real oak floor
had warped a little. About 4 boards wide and about 2-3 inches long. Not
visibly noticeable unless you get up close (on your knees), but you can
feel it with sock feet.

I suspect it would be possible to sand it out, and over time it seems smoother.

I have maple pergo in the kitchen, its holding up well but shows all
dirt since its so smooth. There are alot of vinyl tiles that look like
stone that I now prefer. If you drop a pot and chip the pergo you are
in trouble.

Heathcliff wrote:
On Dec 3, 2:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

We put Pergo in the kitchen a couple years ago and from a practical
point of view it has been fine; no problems with warping or anything,
it seems immune to spills and chairs scraping and it cleans up fine.
I have to say, though, that both my wife and I came to regret it from
an aesthetic standpoint. The fakeness of it just started to grate on
our nerves after a while. Just a personal reaction, I know lots of
people love it. -- H
Oh, I quite agree- I saw lots of fake floors while I was house shopping,
and the faux-woodgrain laminates always felt like I was walking on a
countertop.

aem sends....

"N8N" wrote in message
...
On Dec 3, 3:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

I'd say "don't do it." If your dishwasher, sink, etc. leaks it will
warp and there's no fixing it but to redo it. Happened to a friend of
mine; he got a sweet deal on rent with the understanding that he'd do
handyman type stuff around the house. His landlady wanted Pergo in
the kitchen and guess what happened...

nate

I'll give you that. We had glued laminate in our kitchen, and one of those
chrome-steel sink traps rusted through and caused a small dripping leak.
You guessed it, it tee-pee'd the floor and basically trashed it. This
flooring cannot withstand any moisture at all. Laminates were all the rage
years ago, but they are going the way of orange countertops and green
appliances. Some perspective buyers don't care for the "fakee" wood floor.

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:25:45 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

Only sheet vinyl flooring and tile are the "perfect" kitchen floors
from the standpoint of water resistance, but sometimes one or the
other isn't practical for some reason. For us, tile would be way too
hard and cold in our winters, and the sheet vinyl gets expensive for
the good stuff since it's hard to DIY.

Previous owners laid down an Armstrong snap-together laminate floor in
the kitchen that has held up rather well over 11+ years. It has
resisted years of snow and rain brought in on people's boots and dogs'
paws from the back door, which is really the primary entry for the
house, and doesn't look all that bad. Where the wear is noticeable is
at the seams where the boards are locked together; this stuff was
glued back then, and in a couple of areas the glue failed and the
boards separated a little. But I'm not complaining.

I hate the fake wood look of this product, though, so when we tear
this stuff out in the spring (and put it back down on the basement
laundry room floor: why throw it in the landfill if we can use it
another way?), we're going to lay down a Shaw or Mannington tile
laminate flooring design that ought to be easy to put down and look
pretty good. The newer floorings have been treated for better
moisture resistance, and they click together very tightly, so they're
very good value for the money. Go for it, but check out the tile
designs, too.

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, wrote:

My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*


We installed laminate (not Pergo but similar) in our kitchen a few years
ago and I would not do it again. It's almost certain you'll have a water
spill at some point. The joints around the sink area on ours swelled and
it's not repairable as far as I can tell (or could tell - we sold the
house).

Others may have different opinions...

John

In article ,
aemeijers says...

Heathcliff wrote:
On Dec 3, 2:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

We put Pergo in the kitchen a couple years ago and from a practical
point of view it has been fine; no problems with warping or anything,
it seems immune to spills and chairs scraping and it cleans up fine.
I have to say, though, that both my wife and I came to regret it from
an aesthetic standpoint. The fakeness of it just started to grate on
our nerves after a while. Just a personal reaction, I know lots of
people love it. -- H
Oh, I quite agree- I saw lots of fake floors while I was house shopping,
and the faux-woodgrain laminates always felt like I was walking on a
countertop.

Worse, since it has a little bit of 'spring' to it. Although Pergo-lovers tell
me that's part of its appeal - 'easy on the feet' and all that.

To me, put a decent sheet linoleum down if not tile. Wood, fake or real,
doesn't belong on kitchen floors.

But a lot of people feel otherwise. I can't tell you how many people sung the
praises of Pergo kitchen floors to me when I was making that decision.

Banty (a good porcelain tile, with dark grout, for me)

writes:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

If you *do* decide to do it, here's one tip: if you have a builtin
dishwasher, remove it and install the new floor all the way back into
the dishwasher compartment. Then reinstall the dishwasher, adjusting
the feet for the fact that the space is now about 3/8 inch less tall.

Some previous owner of our house installed laminate in the kitchen, but
they were lazy and didn't take out the dishwasher. The laminate ended
under the dishwasher door (and wasn't even cut straight across). This
left the dishwasher in a depression, and it was a real pain to get out
when we wanted to replace it. We needed to buy a slightly shorter than
standard dishwasher in order for the new one to fit into the space.

Dave

On Dec 3, 12:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

Pergo isn't supposed to be installed anywhere water might get on it
(i.e. kitchens and bathrooms). However, I've had GREAT luck with
Pergo floors in these areas even when there's been a leak after
installation. I always use waterproof wood glue in every joint as I
install the flooring. Then, in addition to the 1/4" silicone caulk
that is supposed to be installed around the perimeter of the floor, I
seal the base moulding and quarter-round with paintable silicone
caulk.

By installing the floor this way, I minimize the chances of water
seeping between the floor joints as well as in the corners/perimeter
of he floor. It takes a little longer to lay the flooring, but its
easier and cheaper than having the planks swell from water damage
later on.

Paul Daniels
http://foreclosureshortsale101.com/

On Dec 4, 7:02 am, KLS wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:25:45 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

Only sheet vinyl flooring and tile are the "perfect" kitchen floors
from the standpoint of water resistance, but sometimes one or the
other isn't practical for some reason. For us, tile would be way too
hard and cold in our winters, and the sheet vinyl gets expensive for
the good stuff since it's hard to DIY.

Previous owners laid down an Armstrong snap-together laminate floor in
the kitchen that has held up rather well over 11+ years. It has
resisted years of snow and rain brought in on people's boots and dogs'
paws from the back door, which is really the primary entry for the
house, and doesn't look all that bad. Where the wear is noticeable is
at the seams where the boards are locked together; this stuff was
glued back then, and in a couple of areas the glue failed and the
boards separated a little. But I'm not complaining.

I hate the fake wood look of this product, though, so when we tear
this stuff out in the spring (and put it back down on the basement
laundry room floor: why throw it in the landfill if we can use it
another way?), we're going to lay down a Shaw or Mannington tile
laminate flooring design that ought to beeasyto put down and look
pretty good. The newer floorings have been treated for better
moisture resistance, and they click together very tightly, so they're
very good value for themoney. Go for it, but check out the tile
designs, too.

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wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:25 pm, wrote:
My husband and I are ready to replace the nasty black and white
checkerboard vinyl floor in our kitchen, but we're having a hard time
getting a definitive answer: *Is it safe to install Pergo in the
kitchen?*

We have a dark cherry colored Pergo in the living room and it would be
nice to carry that into the kitchen and dining room. I'm hesitant,
because we're only going to be in this house a few more years, and I
don't want a stupid mistake to ruin our resell value in an already
unstable market.

Thanks for your input!

Pergo isn't supposed to be installed anywhere water might get on it
(i.e. kitchens and bathrooms). However, I've had GREAT luck with
Pergo floors in these areas even when there's been a leak after
installation. I always use waterproof wood glue in every joint as I
install the flooring. Then, in addition to the 1/4" silicone caulk
that is supposed to be installed around the perimeter of the floor, I
seal the base moulding and quarter-round with paintable silicone
caulk.

By installing the floor this way, I minimize the chances of water
seeping between the floor joints as well as in the corners/perimeter
of he floor. It takes a little longer to lay the flooring, but its
easier and cheaper than having the planks swell from water damage
later on.

Paul Daniels
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I installed Pergo in our kitchen about 12 or 14 years ago. It still
looks good if you don't look too close; it has a couple of chips and
minor water damage where someone spilled something on a seam and didn't
clean it up. Things you could fix if it was real wood instead of
laminate. But I doubt anyone except me (because I installed it) would
see the problems.

Bob