Hi. Matt Capell here with Capell Flooring. Hey, we like to do a lot of different trainings, talk about different things, flooring, Treasure Valley. You name it, we like to talk about it.
Hey, so today, I often get asked, "What's harder, laminate wood or hardwood flooring?"
Here we have a fairly inexpensive laminate wood, and here we have some acacia engineered hardwood, so it has kind of a veneer on top. This is a neat little trick that I figured out years ago, but it just shows something. Come a little closer. Laminate wood is definitely harder, so it works better with dogs, pets, things like that. If you take just a normal pencil and you push it into the laminate like this, really hard, if you look really closely, it does nothing to it. There's no scratch, no nothing, right?
Okay, so then you take this acacia, which is a good hardwood, and you push it in like this, really hard like that. If you look really, really close, it puts a dent or ding in it. Clean that off. See how there's a little bit of a dimple in there? It's just a fun little way to show a little nuance, but with pets, dogs, things like that, long nails, laminate wood's definitely going to do better for scratches than different types of hardwood.
We're going to try one other experiment really quick. Here's another experiment. This is a pretty big can, weighs a pound, 18.6-ounce soup can, right? I'm going to drop it onto the laminate and onto this acacia, and we'll see what happens. Here goes. I'm going to go about waist high. Bounce away. Take a look. That kind of put a ding in it, all right? But not too bad considering. Okay. Let's take a look and see what happens with the acacia. It's kind of interesting. Look, so it put a little bit of a mark there, but looking at it, they both did pretty well considering.
My first recommendation would be to not drop a soup can on either one, but depending on what kind of laminate ... This isn't a high-end laminate by any stretch. It's just a really basic one. The more dense, like if it's a 12-mil laminate or something like that, it'll do a lot better, but generally speaking, when you drop them or things like that, it's definitely going to do better with a laminate wood from scratches and dings.
That concludes our experiment for today. Love to have you come see us here in Meridian. If you have any questions, feel free to give us a shout out, phone call, or email. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks.
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