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Water Resistance Test

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I Tested All Laminate Flooring To See Which Is Better

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The water resistance test evaluates how both laminate types hold up to liquid spills. The presenter clarifies that laminate is water-resistant, not waterproof, suggesting waterproof vinyl for wet areas. He pours water onto both the cheap and expensive laminate surfaces and leaves it overnight to simulate an unnoticed spill. The next morning, upon inspection, the cheaper TrafficMaster laminate shows significant swelling, delamination, and raised edges, indicating poor water resistance. The expensive Pergo Defense+ laminate, however, shows no signs of swelling, lifting, or delamination, demonstrating superior water resistance despite not being advertised as waterproof.

Tools and materials

  • Towel/Cloth
  • Water bottle
  • Water N/A

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Kettlebell next up the water resistance test has this ever happened to you now typically laminate flooring is not advertised as waterproof it's water resistant if you're looking for a waterproof product of waterproof vinyl is a great option if you have a basement you're afraid from flooding or maybe you have a pool and kids are running in the house in their wet swimming trunks the best test in our situation for the laminate flooring is the classic case when the kid is getting a glass of water and oh no they spilled it by the fridge and they forgot to tell you so what we're going to do is cover this in water and come back in the morning to see if anything delaminated and even worse swell up at the seams see you guys in the morning all right folks it's the next day we made sure to keep this thing as wet as we can in fact I kept probably on three occasions putting more water on it just because some of it dripped off this morning some of it dripped off last night and I wanted to really soak the sucker so let's see what we got clearly this swole up I mean this is obnoxious that not only swell up but actually delaminated that as well it's still tight here and here but this one delaminated oh my gosh yeah look at these bumps let's see like the nice one though this is the part that blows my mind everything is nice and tight no swelling no lips on it and no delamination very very impressed for a product that's not marketed as waterproof wow next up is the stain test

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