I had always loved hardwood floors and wouldn't consider anything else... Until we bought our current house. It has LVP (Coretec Plus) that visually is pretty good at fooling people into thinking it's real wood. When you walk on it, you can tell it's not because it doesn't have the echo of wood. But it also doesn't have the hollow sound that I remember Pergo-type floors having. Since we have an open floor plan, it is actually nice that is is a quieter flooring. We found a box with a few extra pieces of the flooring in the garage, and decided to test how hard it was to scratch/damage. Hubby dropped an ax on it, no marks. Then he "chopped" it with varying degrees of strength and it really took a solid blow to do damage. He also took a screwdriver to it, dragging the tip of the tool across the "grain" of the LVP (the grain is raised) to see how much pressure it took to create a visible mark, and again, it took significant force to make a mark that was noticeable. And with all of the marks that were eventually made, they all maintained the same color under the damage, so they weren't terribly noticeable until we held the plank up in the sunlight at the right angle. So I'm not pretty happy with the flooring, especially since we live in a mountain climate (snowy, muddy) and have large dogs. I think it will hold up very well. I have no experience with other brands though.

@SJ McCarthy My CoreTec Luxury Vinyl Plank was installed throughout my "new" 1989 house Q1 2018. About 4 months ago, something that looked like "glue" (to me) was coming from the seams of the planks. THe original Contractor stopped by today to give it a look and he advised that CoreTec does not use glue, so I'll just call it "gook & moisture." It's awful and I have to SCRAPE the gook to try and get it clean but it's getting worse and I cannot keep up with it. The Contractor advised that CoreTec does not use an underlayment and, from what I interpreted from your reply to another, that an underlayment is NOT the same as a vapor or moisture barrier. My 1-1/2 store house is on a slab, stucco, built in 1989. This issue began about 4 months ago and is increasingly getting worse. The worst areas are far from the walls that are against the exterior of the house (hope I described that properly.) For example, the worst seepage of moisture and gook is in the hallway which has a bedroom between the exterior wall and the hallway. Meanwhile, the seepage of moisture and gook is growing worse as time goes on and spreading slowly throughout the house. While I have several dogs, they are not in the area of the foyer and hallway because I have baby gates so they are restricted to the living room that goes into the sunroom that has a doggie door to the fenced back yard. They have lots of room and no need for the rest of the house and that helps me keep it clean. Would appreciate your thoughts. I know the company will try to find an issue that would not be their liability. I really just want what is fair. I'm going to have to have the entire main level re-floored. It's a 1-1/2 story on a slab, as I described above. Thank you! Denna Neff Independent Senior Lady, 76 years old. :)

For those of you considering LVP, I can’t stress enough how important the installation process needs to be. IMO the flooring is great—durable, beautiful, comfortable to walk on, etc. We are having issues because the contractor we used was incompetent and our floors are now buckling. Thankfully it’s can be fixed without completely replacing, it’s just the inconvenience and extra $$ we’re paying because I don’t trust him to fix it. Make sure you’re installer know what he’s doing.

@jupiterbaseball Unsure if you still need it but https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5396961/coretec-calypso-oak-noble-oak-or-pembroke-pine-photos#n=355 has a lot of good cyril discussion.