Beautiful and Innovative Laminate Flooring

Laminate flooring offers a wide selection of designs that offer the look and feel of beautiful hardwood, ceramic tile, and slate. Laminate is a composite designed to endure more-than-average wear and tear. A direct-pressure manufacturing process fuses four layers into one extremely hard surface.

Laminate is constructed of four layers:

• The back is reinforced with melamine for structural stability and moisture resistance


• EnviroCore™ - Shaw's environmentally-friendly coreboard - is the dense, inner layer made of recycled wood fiber, meaning fewer trees are used with less waste. -- Shaw's laminate products are inherently good environmental choices in floor covering. Engineered to last, laminate offers a long life span that minimizes replacement. And while it simulates the upscale look of a natural product like an exotic hardwood or ceramic tile, the actual material isn't used and the natural resource preserved. Shaw laminates feature EnviroCore™ and use 98% less newly harvested wood than conventional engineered hardwood products.


• Providing the floor's beauty, the decorative layer is actually a highly detailed photograph that gives the laminate the appearance of wood or tile


• Melamine wear top layer is a tough, clear finish reinforced with aluminum oxide, one of the hardest mineral compounds known to man, to resist staining, fading, surface moisture, and wear

The resulting floor is a technological breakthrough. There's no staining, no fading, and no wear through.

Shaw's VersaLock®AG™ and LockNPlace® glueless installation methods both make installing your new floor fast and easy.

Shaw's patented locking technology that reliably secures the flooring panels on all four sides without adhesive.

Shaw's single action glueless locking system greatly enhances the speed and ease of installation while improving seam integrity.

Ease of installation is one of the features that has made laminate flooring the fastest growing product in the flooring industry. VersaLock®AG™ and LocNPlace® are the latest in installation technologies and allow you to install your laminate flooring without nails or glue.

Other noteworthy features:

• Shaw Laminate flooring is incredibly durable and stain resistant. Such problem spills as nail polish, grease, and mustard simply wipe off.


• Patented tongue-and-groove locking technology eliminates unsightly gaps at the seams.