@Abballmom @Michelle G @pamela1154 @Megan Redlich We are choosing between carpet and CoreTec Calypso Oak in a bonus room/playroom. I do love the colors and appreciate all of your photos! A couple of questions: - For those who have it on an upper level: what is the noise like below? This would be on our second story above my husband's office so I worry a bit about this, especially compared to carpet. - Is it easy to clean? Any issues with vacuum (or a roomba) scratching it? - What about scratching in general? We have a large dog...and young kids who love to push all kinds of things around on the floor :) - Are you generally still happy with your choice? Thank you so much!

Cortex LVT Flooring is now owed by Shaw Floors. You can go on this link and request up to 3 free samples and they will ship them to you fast and for free. Free LVP & LVT Flooring Samples | COREtec (coretecfloors.com) We put Cortec LVT in our great room/kitchen/dining and guest bath of our log home five years ago and we love it. I like the cork backing for its sound deafening properties and Cortec is waterproof. We live in Montana snow country. It stands up to our large dogs (70+ lbs.). We have recently ordered Nantucket Oak to put in our master bath.

Do not buy this flooring!!!! Here is our experience. We put Cairo Oak by Coretec in out new build home in late 2021. We have 4 kids ages 9-1 and thought a LVP would be the most practical way to go. While I still agree LVP is great with kids this flooring is AWFUL! The color Cairo oak specifically eats anything it touches. Its sadly in our whole main floor so we are on it most of the day. This flooring makes holes in socks and in the knees of pants in literally two seconds. It has become quite costly replacing pants and sock for four kids. It is specifically this flooring. We have had other LVP flooring in past homes with kids and did not experience this. I tried reaching out to Coretec and got a careless response. It is very upsetting to spend such a large amount of money on flooring for a well known brand only to get a crappy quality in return. If you are looking at Cairo Oak from Coretec..keep looking. I wouldn't even recommend the brand after the way they handled their customer service.

I bought the "In House exclusive brand" "Downs H2O" from Flooring America. It was the same product that I found at Carpet One under a different "In house exclusive brand name" "Invincible H2O". Turns out that Carpet One, Flooring America, Flooring Canada, The Floor Trader Outlet and ProSource Outlet are all under the umbrella of CCA Global Partners. Their in house brands are manufactured for them by CoreTec and sold at all their stores under different names. The prices are different from one franchised owned store to another. I found a 30% difference between the highest and lowest prices for the exact same flooring and different prices not only one store name to the next, but two Flooring Americas or two Carpet Ones would have different prices. The flooring was also available through CoreTec, but the tile size was different - I bought 18x36 and I think through CoreTec the large format was 12x24. Buying through CoreTec was one of the higher prices, if not the highest. When the product was delivered it is in a CoreTec box and is the CoreTec Plus product line. To make things even more confusing CoreTec was a subsidiary of US Floors. US Floors was bought out by Shaw Industries. I have been very happy with my Downs H2O / Coretec flooring. Don't have any marks from the dog or shoes or foot prints.