I have read several posts that talk about the only thing being sold at $1.00/sq.ft is low quality junk.
That isnt true, you guys are thinking from a wrong point of view.
Let me ask you this, how much do you know about the difference between Pergo and Kronotex for example? Pergo and Kronotex use the same machines, same wood, and same techniques to make laminate, both are imprted from Germany.
What is the difference you might ask? There isnt any except for color and a false sense of quality. Why? Because Pergo for I belive about 4 or 5 years was the first and the only company in U.S. to bring laminate flooring from Germany when it was first invented. So naturaly most of the people think that Pergo is the best laminate ever made. If any of you can read or know someone that can read German, visit a German contractor forum or some related web page, Pergo is nothing in Germany. German market is dominated by Krono and Classen, there is also Horizon but they are still not on the top yet.
I get my flooring from Eurolaminate, these guys run simply a warehouse and nothing else, they import directly and dont give u as much BS as other companies do. Their prices are around $1/sq.ft. And from personal experience, their Classen and Krono and NOT seconds, infact its better than what any local store sells in Cleveland.
Home depo for example has a HUGE amount of expenses that are built into every single item in their store.
Online companies basically run an office and a warehouse, some drop ship and dont stock anything and have minimum orders. Others stock and import directly, have no minimum orders, and let others drop ship from them.
These online companies and Home depot or Lewes get their laminate at the same price, except the online companies do not have as many expenses.
Do you really think it costs $2 or even $1 to just MANUFACTURE 1sq.ft? NO, it costs about $0.30-.50/sq.ft
The company is still operational and is doing great, check it out, www.eurolaminate.com, kronotex costs $0.95/sq.ft there with no minimum order because those guys stock everything and import directly.
To be honest, my friend works in that company and they get the Krono for 0.78 including delivery to the warehouse from Germany! those are container prices of course but still.
These guys dont have nearly as much expenses as a local store, nor do they have to worry about sales tax because most of the business is out of state.
If any of you ever installed Kronotex or Classen and had a bad experience with it, please post. I highly doubt that there will be even 1 person that thinks Kronotex and Classen are any worse than Pergo.
When a company gets as big and as popular as Pergo, they stop caring about quality. You think you pay for quality when in reality you pay for the name.
Im not saying Pergo is bad, i had couple of jobs with it and had no problems at all, but its not THE best product out there.
That isnt true, you guys are thinking from a wrong point of view.
Let me ask you this, how much do you know about the difference between Pergo and Kronotex for example? Pergo and Kronotex use the same machines, same wood, and same techniques to make laminate, both are imprted from Germany.
What is the difference you might ask? There isnt any except for color and a false sense of quality. Why? Because Pergo for I belive about 4 or 5 years was the first and the only company in U.S. to bring laminate flooring from Germany when it was first invented. So naturaly most of the people think that Pergo is the best laminate ever made. If any of you can read or know someone that can read German, visit a German contractor forum or some related web page, Pergo is nothing in Germany. German market is dominated by Krono and Classen, there is also Horizon but they are still not on the top yet.
I get my flooring from Eurolaminate, these guys run simply a warehouse and nothing else, they import directly and dont give u as much BS as other companies do. Their prices are around $1/sq.ft. And from personal experience, their Classen and Krono and NOT seconds, infact its better than what any local store sells in Cleveland.
Home depo for example has a HUGE amount of expenses that are built into every single item in their store.
Online companies basically run an office and a warehouse, some drop ship and dont stock anything and have minimum orders. Others stock and import directly, have no minimum orders, and let others drop ship from them.
These online companies and Home depot or Lewes get their laminate at the same price, except the online companies do not have as many expenses.
Do you really think it costs $2 or even $1 to just MANUFACTURE 1sq.ft? NO, it costs about $0.30-.50/sq.ft
The company is still operational and is doing great, check it out, www.eurolaminate.com, kronotex costs $0.95/sq.ft there with no minimum order because those guys stock everything and import directly.
To be honest, my friend works in that company and they get the Krono for 0.78 including delivery to the warehouse from Germany! those are container prices of course but still.
These guys dont have nearly as much expenses as a local store, nor do they have to worry about sales tax because most of the business is out of state.
If any of you ever installed Kronotex or Classen and had a bad experience with it, please post. I highly doubt that there will be even 1 person that thinks Kronotex and Classen are any worse than Pergo.
When a company gets as big and as popular as Pergo, they stop caring about quality. You think you pay for quality when in reality you pay for the name.
Im not saying Pergo is bad, i had couple of jobs with it and had no problems at all, but its not THE best product out there.