It's the Allegria line from Uniboard and appears to be a Canadian
product.
Has anyone used it? Is it decent quality?
It appears the only downside is that they don't offer the range of
colors that Wilsonart and others provide.
Please take the time to read about laminate flooring at ifloors.com.
There's a huge quality gap between the least expensive and the most
expensive that you should think carefully about before buying whatever is
least expensive.
--
Siobhan Perricone
"The obvious insinuation here is that somehow, homosexual seed pods were
smuggled into the Green Mountains under cover of darkness in the back of a
Volvo with Jersey plates."
- Walter Amses, Times Argus Op-Ed piece
Siobhan Perricone <ast...@sover.net> wrote in message
news:t6ffusof206k1epd2...@4ax.com...
I'm going to give this Allegra brand a try. I suspect the pricing is
so good because of the Canadian exchange rate and the fact that they
sell thru Costco. It looks to be a high quality product and is
unbeatable for the price. It looks like this company is trying to
buy their way into the laminate flooring market.
I've heard from multiple sources to avoid Pergo due to major quality
problems.
so you don't do costco or sams either?
They also "presume you've stolen" with their Sensormatic systems.
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:28:19 -0700, Cliff Walker <@the_edge.com>
wrote:
actually, they do that because they dont trust their cashiers to ring things
up properly... youd be surprised how often the cashiers miss stuff on the
bottom of the basket. it goes both ways too- ive seen cases where items were
double scanned by the cashier as theyre run thru the scanner, and the door
people have caught it. theyre also there to make sure that big ticket
merchandise pick-up items (small electonics) are picked up at the
merchandise pick-up cage before you leave the warehouse with the *empty*
box.
http://www.uniboard.com/en/index.html
It would appear they are have been doing laminate products for some
time but are trying to buy their way into the flooring business but
don't have much in the way of distribution channels as yet. (Etail and
Costco look their only channels) There website suggests they were
very highly rated in a '99 Good Housekeeping evaluation of laminate
flooring.
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:18:16 -0700, Jim McClain <JMFl...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:21:44 -0700, davefr <dav...@REMOVETHIS.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Thanks! Interesting website, but this brand was not evaluated.
>>
>>I'm going to give this Allegra brand a try. I suspect the pricing is
>>so good because of the Canadian exchange rate and the fact that they
>>sell thru Costco.
>
>Dave,
>
>Allegra may be a re-named brand, what we call "private labeling" in
>the trade. This is so the consumer can not easily compare prices or
>quality. I suspect that this product rates somewhere near or even
>below that of Pergo. Buyer beware.
>
>Jim
>JMFloors
or KMart, WalMart, Sears and a bunch of others with electronic detectors
at every door.