Laminate Construction

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.


• 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.

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.