Best Vinyl Plank flooring?
 

I'm looking to do a faux hardwood in my living room using vinyl planking. This seems to be a good option for us for a number of reasons. I have 3 kids running around and a large dog and 3 cats. We have a pool and kids come into that room from the yard wet all the time. Things get spilled and pets have accidents. So I want the look of wood but I worry that the wet factor would ruin real wood or laminate. Living room has a wood sub floor and currently has carpet. I was looking at the new click together Allure ultra and the reviews seem mixed. I'm wondering what planking is best for my application. I'm also curious when you do a floating floor how you tackle edges by a sliding glass door and I also have a brick fireplace it would go along. I'm not sure how you hide the edge there. Thanks for any thoughts.

They all have good and bad. I believe most commercial applications use Karndean. But it is gluedown.

How hard is glue down for a DIY? Compared to the floating stuff

Armstrong has a 'good, better, best' line of floating hardwood looking vinyl planking called "Luxe Plank" that we've had success with.

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yeah the user reviews I have read of the cheaper alure don't look that great. The click stuff has a serious wear layer so it caught my attention. I want good quality stuff not cheap. This is about looking nice and holding up well against my life style

after having to replace carpet from an a/c problem, then replace our laminate due to a toilet overflowing for three hours while we were gone, we went with Allure. It was the best thing for us, with the water fears we have. Now we have a leaky rook, our a/c leaked real bad last week, and I just mop it all up. We have been very happy with it, installation was a breeze, and its given us exactly what we wanted it for.

Jeni did you use the click together ultra alure or the kind with the sticky sides? Thanks

this is the stick together kind that was out 3 years ago. I did not even know about the clicking kind until I saw it mentioned here.