Vinyl Flooring Vs Laminate Wood Flooring. Oak and maple are the most common hardwoods used. Neither laminate nor solid hardwood flooring is ideal flooring materials for truly wet locations but laminate is somewhat better for humid locations such as installation against concrete slabs.
As for price both products can range from under a dollar to over 5 per square foot. 1 to 5 per square foot. Vinyl flooring is almost one-hundred percent plastic.
Occasionally youll see high-quality laminates priced up to 7 per square foot.
Like wood flooring laminate typically feels hard underfoot and without an underlayment 4 it may echo or be loud. Sheet vinyl may come with different patterns to give the look of tile or stone and may also have borders inlaid into the pattern. In the case of flooding vinyl flooring can be uninstalled dried and reinstalled like new. In the hands of a skilled installer vinyl sheet goods can be cut to form dazzling swirls and stripes.
