Premium HugoPro laminate flooring marks the next generation of our most popular Hugo brand, offering even more water resistance! HugoPro can withstand 72 hours of moisture exposure and comes with the same robust commercial grade surface. Explore our new range of trending colours carefully selected by our in-house design team!
How to DIY This Floor?
The easiest DIY floors are floating floors like this one! They click lock together and don’t need glue or nails - they're super easy to install and if you make a mistake, you can simply un-click them and redo it. Floating floors include laminate floors, hybrid floors, bamboo floors and even engineered timber (if you are after real wood).
What tools do I need to DIY this type of floor?
The most important tools are:
Drop Saw and / or Table Saw - to cut the floorboards and are available for $150 at most hardware stores, or you can borrow one.
Ruler or Set Square - to measure how much you need to cut for the end planks near the walls.
Pencil & Eraser - to draw the cutting lines when you reach the last planks of each row.
Other “nice-to-haves” include a DIY Flooring Kit (available at Floor venue), spirit levels, tape measures, safety equipment, and work gloves.
Pro installation tips
Floor Levelling - the subfloor refers to what you intend to lay the flooring directly over and is often concrete slabs, plywood, yellow tongue or even existing floorboards. Proper subfloor preparation is very important and you should:
Clean the subfloor
Check subfloor evenness (to prevent creaking and long-term joint damage)
Underlay - is typically a soft rubber or foam material that goes underneath the floor and provides noise protection. If you live in an apartment block, your strata may have acoustic underlay requirements that you must confirm before a project.
Expansion Gaps - between the floor and the walls to allow for natural expansion and shrinkage due to temperature and moisture changes. Consider:
Plank Width - wider planks have more expansion and should be given a slightly bigger expansion gap within the range below.
Environmental Moisture - if relative humidity is high, we recommend increasing the expansion gap size.
Premium Hugo Pro Laminate Flooring Flooring FAQs
Hugo Pro Laminate is our premium laminate range in our favourite timber species and oak colours. Hyper-realistic timber print and embossing makes them virtually indistinguishable from real timber once installed. Aside from beauty, the Hugo laminate range offers commercial grade wear resistance with AC4 abrasion rating, 72 hours of was sealed water resistance and 25 years of warranty, all for your peace of mind.
Luxflor Hugo Laminate is designed for simplistic cleaning. Sweeping, mopping with a slightly damp mop and vacuuming can all work. Use a cloth for spot cleaning. Avoid using abrasive cleaning tools, and try not to flood the floors as they are not waterproof.
Laminate flooring was first introduced by a Swedish company as a method of reusing waste wood for economical and ethical reasons. These planks are first created by deconstructing wood to make it into a pulp, and then fusing them together in order to create a synthetic core. There are three primary layers, which consist of a wear layer, print layer, and HDF core.
