Has anyone had success in painting modern laminate flooring? We have pergo sensation modern plank through our hall and living room/kitchen - high traffic areas where things get dropped. Their website says you can’t paint it but is that true or a ploy to get us to pull it up and start again? Apparently old style laminate is easier to paint and this stuff is not.
We've never tried what you're considering Charlotte, but us flooring gurus think it extremely unlikely to work.
Let's say you find a primer that helps paint key to the laminate, allowing it to also dry, we just can't see the paint adhering enough. We reckon paint will scratch off very easily. Laminates have a kind of have a protective wear layer which will make it almost impossible to paint.
Think in reverse. If you had a laminate down and you spilled paint over it, you'd hope and expect the paint to easily wipe off. Laminates are engineered to prevent what you are aiming to do from being able to happen.
Not a ploy from the laminate manufacturer. An engineered fact, we'd say. You dig?
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I don’t rate floor paint at all, personally. I painted my wooden floorboards in the bedroom, and then added two coats of “diamond hard” (yeh right!). It wasn’t long before it started to chip and looked a right mess. I doubt painting laminate would fare any better, I’m afraid.
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