Purchased this approx. 7 years ago, at about 5 years the laminate started to peal of, took up the floor and replaced the damaged boards, Pealing again, still have a few boards left, but not worth tearing up the floor to replace the boards, will tear up and replace with a different product. Tried to contact traditional Living and the phone number on the box isn't a good number, Since it is a Pergo company, I called them and a man said he could help, and to send pictures of the flooring to him, never heard from him so I tried contacting someone else, no luck. I won't buy Traditional Living or any product made by Pergo. They don't seem to want to honor their warranty.

This flooring looks great and matches the real oak we have in the bedrooms upstairs pretty well. If you look at the transition strips in the first 2 pics, they're real oak, stained to match and they look like the same material. The 3rd pic is the real oak floor we have in an upstairs bedroom. Very similar! My contractor said this laminate is good quality and it installs fairly easily. You certainly cannot beat the price! We're very happy with it. Time will tell if it's durable with 4 dogs, but my contractor is confident it will be.

This flooring was purchased in 2006 from Sam's Club and installed in part of our home. When we decided we wanted to use the same product in the rest of the house 11 years later we were very please to find we could still purchase the product from Sam's. It matches perfectly and is a very good quality product. My only issue was the locking system had changed and it caused a problem with the initial transition since we wanted it to be seamless. The other thing I have to say is that the original locking system for me was superior to the current system. This was most likely and industry change in that it matches the system on current comperable products.

We have the old style, but I waited too long to check boards warping "bubbling" up. Once I did, I found a leak of course that had spread through a lot of the kitchen. I had to pull most of it up, but there were still good boards. Then I was ecstatic to discover that Sams still sold the same style. Then my excitement died when the specs said would not connect to old style and a transition piece would be needed. Being that I would have had to waste quite a few boards and would have to order more, I made the determination that I would make them fit. Fortunately, we have an island so I made the connection where the island started. Took quite a bit more work, modifying both boards but it worked. Our kitchen floor looks new again! Note: I did not find the new locking system any easier or better than the old. The only positive I noticed is that the point of connection is even less visible with the new style.

The golden amber oak II is a poor design. The channels do not lock together very easily like the origional. It appears the design was changed to make the product cheaper, since the laminated surface is smaller each plank. I spent a lot of time trying to make it work and now giving up and returning the product.

We recently replaced the old vinyl flooring in our den with this Traditional Living Golden Amber Oak II Flooring that matched the rest of the flooring in our home exactly. Our other flooring is over 10 years old and still looks brand new! That's after having three dogs bouncing around on it for all those years too. The new flooring arrived with a total of 5 damaged pieces, so it's a good thing we ordered an extra box of planks. However, all 5 were damaged on the ends, and we were able to be use some of them as end cuts, either to begin or end a row. The flooring goes together easily with a little practice. It is possible to install by yourself, but it helps to have a second person to hold things down a little, and to help let the person installing know when they have achieved a tight joint, and can stop tapping on the end of the plank. They make an installation kit for this type of flooring and it is an absolute must that you follow the directions that come with the flooring, and use an installation kit. If you don't you will have nothing but problems. Trying to use makeshift tools, and wing it, will not help you. We put the original flooring in ourselves, and we put the new flooring in the same way. You have to use the spacers, included in the kit, against the side wall, and the end wall, that you will be tapping the flooring against. One spacer about every 12 to 16 inches along the sides of the flooring, between the first row of flooring and the wall, and at least one spacer for the end of each and every row of flooring you put down between the end wall and the flooring, where you start laying the floor. Do not remove those spacers as you work. If you need more spacers please just go buy some more. That way the flooring is held in place and will not come apart as you add more rows across the room. The sides of the flooring snap together easily by simply wiggling the plank you're installing up and down a few times until you hear a click. If you don't hear the click, at least make sure there isn't a crack between the two pieces when the new plank is laid down. If there is, use the tapping block, included in the installation kit, and a hammer to tap the new piece into place. Try to get the new plank as close as possible to the end of the last plank in the row you're installing and then use the tapping block and hammer to tap it into place. That's it. It's just that easy. No big secrets, and it's really not hard at all if you just take your time and do it right. As far as the surface being soft, or tearing, or scratching easily... Ours shows no signs of that. In fact it's just as hard and scratch resistant as the original floor as far as we can tell. The dogs have been playing on it for several weeks, and we've moved furniture around on it a couple of times now. Not one single scratch anywhere. This is very good flooring and we expect it to last for years and years to come. Oh yea, we're happy.

In October, I purchase 36 boxes of this flooring. The contractor opened 18 boxes and 15 boxes had damaged planks. The whole shippment is defective and can not be used due to severe damage. I called the customer service on November 7-th in order to return the whole shippmet and get the refund. It's December 1-st and the Sam's Club still didn't pick up the defective product and I can't get the refund. I have been calling every couple of days and they keep issuing new incident reports that get submitted to the next level and nothing happens. Finally yesterday they made aggangements for Fed Express to pick up 1,057lbs of laminate flooring. I called the customer service again and told them this product can not be shipped via Fed Express and they issued new report which was submitted to the "next level". The next level is like a black hole. This is the worst customer service ever. It's imposible to return damaged product and get your money back. I will never buy any product from Sam's Club again and I will cancel my membership. I hope I will be able to get my money back soon.

This flooring is a beautiful color. Just the right amount of variation. Well made. Nice sheen.

Put this flooring in my son's house 11 years ago and it looks as good now as it did on day one. Easy to lay and has a foam back that requires no underlayment barrier. I highly recommend. Plus it is made in USA.

Wanted to match the flooring I bought at Sam’s several years ago. This was a perfect match to the original golden amber oak. Much easier to install with the new system. The free delivery to my home was a plus. Getting tempted to install it in several other rooms.