Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread. I just decided on red series Sole. Can't wait for the instal in June.

Grey Fox installed in a condo in San Mateo

Sole installed in the Oakland hills

Grey Fox installed in San Francisco

Love our gaia - this is black series and actually putting white series in our other home ! My Other half owns a flooring installation company so him putting it in his home says a lot as has done floors over 30 years and loves the product

Hi @Rajul Jain which one did you go for? we are in the same boat of deciding which one to go- we kind of liked Gaia Grey Fox but wasnt sure how it looks. have tried to find a visualizer. did you have any luck there? can you share your house pics

@Beau Monde Fine Floors Inc- do you happen to have a visualizer or recommend a site that has a Gaia Grey fox product?

Here are a few Grey Fox projects

Beau Monde Fine Floors in Belmont has full size planks on display

we have these floors in two of our houses !

rays flooring installed - off price carpets floors to go

and cuptertino floors have dispalys

We just installed Sole and just love it.

Is this grey fox

Our showroom is the only official GAIA showroom with full size planks on display

Hey guys! We are considering Gaia white series for our home as well. Question on if it feels soft and comfortable underfoot. I have read a few things about SPC vs WPC and it seems like Gaia is SPC but wondering if theres any significant difference in the comfort of walking on it.

MJ...I can not speak to the feeling of WPC but, what I can add is that we have just had Gaia red series for about 2 weeks now and it feels good underfoot. I think it feels a bit more forgiving than the old laminate it replaced. I have old knees and hips and have had no issues.

Does anyone have a picture of the Red Riva installed?

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This is all I have in Red Series Riva....

MJ, WPC is wood plastic composite, old technology, contains plasticizers and has to be acclimate for 48 hours. SPC is a limestone composite, no acclimation is requires and all GAIA products have been tested by SCS Global in Emeryville, CA for indoor air quality of volatile organic compounds, no formaldehyde, plasticizers, etc.

Hi! Does anyone have pictures of the White sand dollar or arctic wolf installed? Thanks

where can I find best pricing for Gaia red series in bay area

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Try Beau Monde Fine Floors or Granite Expo!

If you're in the south bay (San Jose, Campbell, Los Gatos, Santa Clara, etc.), you can visit our showroom located at 950 S McGlincy Ln, Campbell, CA 95008. We have a full GAIA display and herringbone planks installed on our floors (Dolce Luna and Casa Ora).

Anyone have photos of White Series American Cherry installed?

American Cherry

I wonder if you need to lay a layer of underlayment before installing the Gaia LVP flooring? If so, what underlayment is used for to lay over existing tiles for sunroom.

We have never installed an underlayment with a GAIA Floor, the planks already have an attached pad, adding a cushion type underlayment will put too much pressure on the joints, try prepping the grout line with a Portland base patch instead. You would only use a wood underlayment over a wood sub-floor if the sub-floor was in bad condition.

For those of you that wanted to know who has the best prices in town, here is a sample, there are more Google reviews available.

White Series Impala

Red Series color Sole

Sole

Hi, please share pictures of Black Series/Athena OR Black Series/Sawyer, if you have installed those.

Black Series Sawyer installed.

Hi anyone have photos of white series sand dollar installed?

Black Series Athena, installed

Thanks @Van Briggle Floors & @Beau Monde Fine Floors Inc Both Athena & Sawyer look great.

I think Sawyer looks to be on browner side. Hope it is not dark.

@Shubha Yes, Athena is lighter vs. Sawyer. Sawyer is on a browner side but it depends on your lighting condition and other color tones of the room, Sawyer might be a better fit. The one that we installed had lots of natural lighting and it came out great. Hope that helps.

Hope this will help, we have this on our showroom wall "full size planks"

Anyone have photos of White series - Sanddoller installed ? thank you in advance.

@Beau Monde Fine Floors Inc question to an expert - I put GAIA Red Series laminate floor with the thinnest underlayment and they came out spongy. Do you think taking it apart, removing underlayment, and then putting them back together is feasible?

Hello Denis, who recommended the additional underlayment? We here at Beau Monde have never used an additional underlayment, it put too much stress on the plank joints. If you take apart the entire floor, make sure you have plenty of extra planks in case of joint breakage.

It's a long story :), but this is how it's like now :( I am trying to come up with a plan on how to fix that without buying new flooring. Do you think it'll be a lot of joints breakages potentially? I have only 60 sqft worth of extra planks left for a 700sqft re-flooring area :( also, GAIA doesn't make more of that floor that I have installed. Pretty interesting situation. Thank you so much for your input @Beau Monde Fine Floors Inc

Yes you are correct, the Red Series is now 8mm, it is a big gamble to try to remove and reuse the planks. It will all depend on how much stress was put on the joints and if it caused hairline fractures on those joints. What is the color?

Thank you again. It's Sole color. I'll probably run an test on a small area to see how joints are looking. Floor was installed a month ago. I hope that they didn't experience to much wear

okay let me know, I could try to locate some 7mm Sole

I have some minor peels on a couple of the stairnoses about 1mm x 1mm. what is the best solution to patch these small peels?

for the past 3 plus years I have never heard or seen this before, please send me a picture to michael@beaumondefloors.com

@Beau Monde Fine Floors Inc, sure I will send you a picture tomorrow. keep in mind this is on the stair nose and it appears that the stairnose is made a bit differently. it looks like it merely has a thin layer of the design on it as opposed to the regular floor pieces which most likely makes it much more vulnerable to scratches/peels

I understand, but GAIA Flush Stair Nosing does not "peel" We install a lot of projects and never had a nosing peel. If it is a defect you need to call the company you purchase the GAIA from.

There are a few small gaps between some of the planks of our Gaia SPC flooring. Is it correct that it is likely related to the installation (pieces not being “locked together” properly at time of install? And it would require that part of the flooring being taken apparent and set back down? Rather than somehow trying to push the planks together to fill the gaps out to the walls where it would be hidden under baseboards?

Yes it sounds like the planks did not properly click together, the planks will have to be taken apart starting at the wall, It is highly unlikely you will be able to push them together.