New flooring- Should I use carpeting or laminate?

Personally I would put laminate all through,this way should you choose you can put down a area rug in your living room.

I agree with Janet, its easier to maintain and clean laminate and a rug you can always change or have cleaned. Keep us posted!

I Share your thoughts!

I live in a mobile home also. l am getting rid of the carpet and going with the laminate. l believe it will be easier to care for.

Hi, Have you considered luxury vinyl plant flooring that looks like wood? I just put Allure Brand Country Pine (Home Depot) in my basement and it is fabulous.

Looks like wood, cleans like vinyl. Much better at being able to take wear and tear than a laminate. I have travelled lots of times in a trailer/motor home and I would go with LVPF before anything else. You can even install it yourself.

Correction: Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring

To me, especially in a manufactured home, the laminate is yes easier to care for and clean, and looks nice, AND can buy area rugs and runners to cover it and care for them in the washing machine.

Laminate is great but double check how well it handles water spills. If your dishwasher leaks or you have some flooding and are not home, laminate is not your friend. Pergo claims its latest version can withstand water for about 24 hours; we recently put it in our kitchen and it's beautiful. No water problems. Yet! But like the others have shared, vinyl has changed so much that it's worth checking out. We recently put some in a bathroom. Appearance-wise, it looked very much like the faux greyed barn wood Pergo in our kitchen. My husband said it was easy to install too. Handles water like a charm. Only time will tell how well it wears. Good luck!

I too live in a mobile home and hope you will share with us Hometalkers what you decide and how you like it. We bought an older mobile a year ago and the previous owner put in the cheapest carpet available so I want to change it out as well, but I will replace flooring throughout.

I too have lived in mobile homes and am helping restore one now. I want to stress that vinyl plank floors look fantastic and since we have to tear out the laminate due to vandalism and water damage. We're going to do the entire mobile in it.