Rugs, longevity of stuff, furnishings, etc.

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I thought the whole point of laminate floors was to not need protecting.

I took a scrap of our flooring, and could not mar the surface with anything including a hammer and a drill.

Mine is bamboo laminate flooring. It came with the place already installed. I'm not sure I want to try punching it since I don't have a scrap to try it.

I spoke with a carpenter who had several decades of experience with installation of wood flooring for large facilities. He didn't know much because he worked with real wood. Those folks are a fountain of knowledge. He looked at the flooring in the building where we were all meeting: "That's fir wood, very hard", he said." Tree that doesn't exist east of Alberta."

We were in a building at least 4-5 decades old.