I purchased a box today at HD to try it before I buy a whole bunch. It seems very difficult to start a second row. The ends do not "lock-in" as stated in the directions. In the directions it explains to put the 2nd row together, then angle it at a 45 degree angle to "snap" it into the first row. This is not a likely option if the rows are more than 5 feet wide (it would take several people down the row for a 10 foot row to hold and angle before snapping it into the prior row- and with the ends not locking in properly each board slides out). Here's the toll free number (Imported) 1-877-630-1800 RN#104577. Has anyone had success installing this? I am weighing my options to take this back and get something else.

aggietexan, if you send me pictures to my email address, I can set them up in one of the two photo sites I belong to that I have not used in a long time. I would add pictures and send the link here and clicking the link would allow the pictures to show. I do not know how to place pictures inside a post but I do know how to do links. I would love to see pictures. Just click my lynn2006 page and you will see a link to click my email. I am glad you are happy with your new floors. Do they have some red in them? I would love to see some close up of the knots since maybe they are tiny and will not bother me. I do love the pics of the Amendoim floors on the BR-111 website. How long have you had the floors? What color change can you see if you have a carpet on the floor?

SCANDIAN ENGINEERED FLOORS ARE GREAT BUT ENGINEERED FLOORS DON'T TEND TO DARKEN MUCH BECAUSE THEYRE IS NOT MUCH NATURAL OILS IN THE WOOD

I've dealt with 30 year old engineered floors with the original finish, and a couple of screening and topcoating over it. If you take care of floors and don't let kids play roller hockey indoors, you too will never need to do a sand and refinish. The idea of "refinishing" as a criteria for choosing your floors is not really a valid concern. Choose a quality major brand, and you won't have any worries. No LL or box store crapola. $5-6 a square foot and up is where the good stuff starts. Under that, you can get some OK buys, but you're generally gonna have to do a lot more homework to make sure. So, what does "taking care of your floors" entail? Vacuuming a couple of times a week. Not allowing food and drink outside of the kitchen. Using rugs at all entries to capture the dirt from outside. Being a no shoes indoor household helps a lot too, but I'm not going to get into that classic arguement. Don't mop your floors. You can damp clean them, but people get all hung up over sloshing water on top of wood, and that's just a comple no no. Use something like a Bona cleaner a couple of times a month, max. Every other type of cleaning should be spot cleaning. But with food and drink confined to the appropriate spot, spills are minimized. Abrasion from debris is minimized by rugs that you frequently clean. And in 8-12 years, you do a refresher of a screening and recoating. You don't need to sand down to bare wood at all. Unless you don't do the above and wear through to bare wood.