I need to buy around 600 square feet of laminate flooring for use in my living room. I really don't need to feel and touch it before I buy it. I know the internet is great for saving people money, so what online stores are the best places to buy this stuff at? I'm looking to spend $2.5o t $4/sq.ft. I'd rather spend more and get a long life product like Armstrong Laminates for Life or Wilsonart Estate. Or perhaps I'm totally wrong assuming I can save $$$. Should I just visit my local home depot or lowest and lay down my plastic card? Sincerely, Rolland Elliott

Help---This is getting to be too much of a point of disagreement between my wife and I. Comments are welcome and appreciated. Here's the story so far. I discovered I had thick-set mortar in the hall area between two room areas, and desired to cover the entire surface (two rooms separated by a hall in the entry way) with wood flooring. My wife chose Kahrs wood flooring for its obvious value and attributes. I have laid the flooring in one room, and am approaching the hall. It's beautiful. Now the problem: The Kahrs specifications states that the floor cannot vary by more than 1/8 inch across 8 feet. OK, I accept this. To alleviate the difference in heights between athe hall way and the two rooms (dining room and office each on opposite sides of the entry hall), we dug up the old tile, thick set mortar, and hired contractors to come in and pour new concrete in the well that the removal created. Problem is that they made it too HIGH in a couple of spots. Too low is OK- we can just Ardex it in, but I have now rented a concrete wheel for a hand-grinder, and then a concrete surfacing machine, and I am still not where I need to be. Neither made even a dent in the concrete. It's really good, strong concrete. I believe I can simply pour enough material in to bring all srfaces up to the proper level, and perhaps put a transition joint at the edge of one room. I'd then feather the direction of the lower spots to meet the spec of the 1/8 inch per 8 feet. Problem is that my wife believes this cannot be done, and we must just bite the bullet, chisel out the concrete in the high spots, and re-fill. I worry that chiseling (jack-hammering actually) could cause a concrete crack and/or greater problems. I've seen these concrete gougers that you can rent, but they have two problems- you must BUY the new chisel tools for them- at about $100, and they won't get close enough to the wall- which I don't want to tear out just to make the flooring work. Many have recommended Ardex- I can tell you it works well for the spots where I've used it already, but it's really finicky to work with. You get a few minutes, and it's set. You have to be fast, and ready when it is. It's still runny enough to drip off your trowel onto areas you've already finished, but not runny enough to re-form once it decides to set. Self-leveling is a misnomer. And it's so expensive, you don't want to use it everywhere. 1/8 inch in 8 feet is a spec that is not even met by high-quality lumber. I guess that's how the contractors missed the spec? Try finding a screeding tool that eill get you to that spec, I dare you. And then try finding one that will get between walls in a hall, etc. etc. OK, I've sufficed with a measure and trowel technique, but even then, you can get a hump- heck the pro's missed a major one, and that's how I got here. Where does the answer lie? Any experience with putting down Kahrs? Of course, the Kahrs help line just tells you it has to be baby's butt smooth, and I understand their desire to cover their behinds. They recommend you use layered tar-paper to level out the uneven spots. This seems like a slippery solution, and not one that would bear the test of time. Steve