[kevinm55]

Good morning all - I am planning to have carpet removed in the bedrooms in our patio villa and replacing all with a laminate floating floor. I would love to hear from anybody who can recommend a quality installer that you may have recently worked with. In addition, I would welcome any and all other lessons learned, tips, or guidance to help make this project a success. Thank you in advance!!

[villagetinker]

I cannot recommend an installer as I did our own flooring (2 bedrooms, 3 closets, and a hallway about 600 sq ft), however I can highly recommend Mohawk Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring, this is 100% vinyl, 100% water proof. It is flexible and can be cut to size with a box cutter (several passes required). What i really like is that this product is much quieter than tile and almost as quite as carpet. It is easy to install and you do NOT install underlayment (per mfg instructions), this goes directly over the concrete, which saves about $2 per sq ft. I bought this at Lowe's about 1.5 years ago, very nice product.

[dewilson58]

Recommend Great Lakes in Wildwood.
They do a lot of installs for The Villages.
We used them for our expansion.

One-Stop-Shop........they have the materials & installers.

Good Luck!!!

[kevinm55]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

I cannot recommend an installer as I did our own flooring (2 bedrooms, 3 closets, and a hallway about 600 sq ft), however I can highly recommend Mohawk Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring, this is 100% vinyl, 100% water proof. It is flexible and can be cut to size with a box cutter (several passes required). What i really like is that this product is much quieter than tile and almost as quite as carpet. It is easy to install and you do NOT install underlayment (per mfg instructions), this goes directly over the concrete, which saves about $2 per sq ft. I bought this at Lowe's about 1.5 years ago, very nice product.

Village Tinker - sincere thanks, this is the exact type of color I was hoping to obtain about the process!

[Two Bills]

Over the years wife and I have had nearly most types of floor covering, carpet, tile, laminate, wood etc.
If you can get Karndean Van Gogh, Gluedown flooring in USA. look no further.
It is way above the rest of the market.
Cheap it is not, but quality it is!
JMTC.

[SIRE1]

I would recommend that you use Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring and NOT regular Laminate Floating flooring as your post indicated. We bought regular Laminate Floating flooring from Great Lakes to replace the carpeting in the living room and hallway. That laminate flooring also went into the kitchen. Big Mistake. Water spills has made the laminate floor swell and bubble up. We are planning on replacing the 8 year old laminate floors this spring with Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring. From what I've read, that is not prone to damage due to water.

[Fredman]

We have lvp installed. However we have a very active dog and he has left scratch marks on the floor.

[MrFlorida]

I have laminate flooring, but if I had to do it again, I would go with vinyl flooring, it holds up much better.

[kevinm55]

Thank you to all for your responses and thoughts on this post. We are excited about this upgrade! If any others read this and have a recommendation for an installer I would really appreciate it.

[jdulej]

Two reason I recommend the Floor Shoppe on 301.

1 - They assumed (and we agreed) that we would want all the baseboards removed and re-installed after the flooring was installed. Many tried to sell us on just adding 1/4 round between the flooring and the existing baseboards.
2 - We did not want the big, ugly transition from tile to hardwood. Most told us to "get over it". These guys suggested very small, subtle metal transition you can barely see. A great solution!

We went with engineering hardwood, but I think the issues are pretty much the same. The difference is in the details!

Good luck!

[n8xwb]

Twice we used Royal Palm Flooring (Todd Durant).

352-205-7650 (Todd)

352-245-6000 (Office)

[raynan]

I agree, Royal Palm Flooring did our whole house where carpeting was and we love our LVP flooring. Good price and they remove all the baseboards where most installers don't.

[DaleDivine]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

I cannot recommend an installer as I did our own flooring (2 bedrooms, 3 closets, and a hallway about 600 sq ft), however I can highly recommend Mohawk Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring, this is 100% vinyl, 100% water proof. It is flexible and can be cut to size with a box cutter (several passes required). What i really like is that this product is much quieter than tile and almost as quite as carpet. It is easy to install and you do NOT install underlayment (per mfg instructions), this goes directly over the concrete, which saves about $2 per sq ft. I bought this at Lowe's about 1.5 years ago, very nice product.

Did you have to glue the LVP down? Remove your baseboards?
Thanks.

[kettlecove]

Learn from my mistake. Fresh from the north, we chose darker toned laminate with a satin finish when we replaced the carpeting. Every drip and bit of dust showed on those floors. Then every streak from cleaning also showed. Choose a light color flooring and you are going to spend far less time maintaining whatever product you install. Second house I chose a wide plank, light driftwood. Much friendlier to Florida gray sand that gets dragged in and dust doesn’t show. Easy maintenance. We definitely learned our lesson!
For what it’s worth- baseboards removed, underlay between concrete and flooring product. I was advised not to glue anything due to the movement between summer and winter seasons. All is well 5 years later and I notice the slight, very slight, expansion in the summer and contraction in the winter but it makes me happy we listened to the advice.

[eeroger]

Originally Posted by kevinm55

Good morning all - I am planning to have carpet removed in the bedrooms in our patio villa and replacing all with a laminate floating floor. I would love to hear from anybody who can recommend a quality installer that you may have recently worked with. In addition, I would welcome any and all other lessons learned, tips, or guidance to help make this project a success. Thank you in advance!!

We used Robertos a few years ago. Good price and installation. No complaints. Would use this company again.