Vinyl Plank Flooring | Flooret Modin Kingswood in a Real Home (Honest Review 2019) 

UPDATE: I HAVE MADE A SECOND REVIEW AFTER A YEAR OF USAGE! BE SURE TO CHECK IT OUT AFTER THIS ONE (LINKED IN DESCRIPTION AND END OF VIDEO)

I just installed Arlo throughout a 1200 sq foot home. It took five days for me (a 74 year old, construction savvy woman). I used a sliding compound miter saw with a carbon tipped (Freud) blade, a table saw, a jig saw and a Multimax for moldings. Jig saw blades (the ones meant for wood or metal) wore out with two or three cuts due to the ceramic component of the flooring. (Try using the ones made for laminate or buy jig saw blades in BULK!) The Freud blade lasted the entire project. I didn't use a pull bar but it would have been handy in a few places. A pry bar against the wall could snap most end pieces. Molding covered any minor dings that method produced. Anyway -- we have gotten compliments galore on how beautiful it is. Arlo has warm brown and grey tones (neutral but not drab) that I emphasized by painting the main rooms sort of latte/mocha. It also goes well with beach colors -- bedrooms and bathrooms are a light aquamarine Be sure to order that 8 to 10% extra they recommend. Yes - it costs a bit more but you will avoid having to delay installation when you find a damaged plank (unless you can put where furniture will cover it). My order had no damaged planks but it might be wise to open all the boxes, inspect each piece, and stack them in the final area you will be working.

Did you get the base (20 mil) or the signature (40 mil) planks and is it still holding up? Thank you.

Just started laying 1400sq ft of the Elmstead in our Ranch home. Doing this on a concrete floor. The quality of this product seems great!

Appreciate your honest review. I too am considering this brand and because of your review we will be careful to inspect the individual planks before installation.your floors are beautiful!

I think this is the kind of flooring a friend of mine just installed. She has only had it a few months as well and she loves them. It stinks your floor is having those issues. Taking the refund makes more sense at least for now. You did a great review!!

Great review - well balanced, putting all on the table both its strength and issues.

I am deciding between floored Kingswood and Vylux by Bogosian's, I love your floor and I found your review helpful! thank you will look at updated video

You can remove individual boards and glue in replacement boards relatively easy

The issues with the beveled edges is a "bad batch" issue? Are they sure about that? Not going to pay $4 a sq. ft. with that type of problem happening. Did that one dent occur after installation? There's a product called Supercore on YT where they demonstrate hitting their product with a piece of lead with no denting occurring. Looking for a rigid vinyl product myself but can't decide. What else competes with Modin?

looks beautiful

foam is better then cork, have you ever seen old cork, it becomes brittle and starts to flake, Glad they changed to Foam underlayment

I'm curious, now that it's been in just shy of a year (If I calculated correctly) - how is the wear and tear? I noticed in the comments you do not have big dogs, but have your kids managed to scratch/ding it? Also, how long did it take your husband to complete the 800sq.ft? We are wanting to get rid of our carpet due to allergy issues and the 40mil coating of this brand is very appealing. Thanks!

Foam underlayment works better than cork. Cork breaks down more quickly.

Hi. A question. I ordered in three cut samples, not the full planks, but they don't have much of the more golden contrast, but more shaded to brown/grey. But I noticed your kitchen cabinets look a bit like mine. How do you feel about the flooring overall picking up the look of you existing kitchen woodwork? My concern is with putting it in and it then looking like I was trying to match on the color but missed. And then having to live with it. Thanks.

The bevel issue is kind of unacceptable. I hope they refunded most of your money back.

Great Video! Thinking about installing the Kingswood in our main areas of the house (entry, kitchen, living, bath) and wondered if there were any basic tips you guys had? (Will be installing on concrete pad)

Why are people having problems with this very expensive flooring I have seen more negative reviews then positive reviews the number one failure rate on these luxury floors is the locking system

Anyone try their Modin Base product? It's has not been released to their website yet. It's smaller than the Signature product.

Debating between kingswood, brenwick and nakan now. I noticed the bevel looks white in your video though for kingswood. Is this how it is or just lighting?

Glad we came across the video. We are currently looking at the same flooring. For sure on the fence, even before watching this. For the cost and what they claim, it is supposed to be extremely high end, but from what I can see, the vinyl that we recently installed in a rental for 1/2 the cost is as good or maybe even better. 2 questions: The pattern repeat in the floor doesn't seem to offer a lot of variance. In your video it seems like a lot of planks are duplicates that are very close to one another. Do you think that's the case or maybe it was because it was your first time installing and maybe didn't catch that part? Second question, overall do you think it was worth the purchase as far as quality? I would be pretty unhappy to see the discoloration happening right after install and then being told it was a bad batch as to me that screams of quality control issues.

I do not like the groove lines it looks terrible .My neighbor put this floor down and hates it because all the dust and chihuahua hairs get into the grooves .I like the wider planks .She had a problem with some indents from her washer dryer feet and from her fridge .When she pulled them out to clean behind them and under them she saw the indents .She has had the flooring in for over a year now .She has the same problem with her grooves that she has lost color and her hubby had to use a paint to patch the problems .Same thing rip up the floor to replace 30 or more and it continues .Her transition strips by her kitchen door is peeling .The coating is coming off it

I am having such trouble deciding.. Do you still love it? I have 3 kids and 2 BIG dogs- ride on cars, cleats, water.. its been a few months now, are you still happy? Also we live in Texas- how was the shipping??

I just received just over 800 feet of Modin Signature, Nakan. I was excited to get it and immediately opened a box to check it out. I couldn't be more disappointed, the chamfers/angled edges on all planks have lines at the surface of the planks that look like melted plastic. I thought for sure that this is a manufacturing defect so I immediately called Flooret to have the order replaced. I sent them several close up pictures of the problem and they said that that is a feature, enhanced edges? What a bunch of crap! I have now left the flooring stored and am disputing the charge with my bank. Fraud. Over $4000 for a pile of crap and a company that probably thinks i will just use the flooring anyway because shipping it back is such a pain and expensive. Flooret , take it off your short list, you deserve better.

Hi Jackie, great review of Flooret Modin. My wife and I have narrowed our choice down to either Kingswood or Sutton. We both really like Kingswood but are concerned about how scratches will show since it is smoother than Sutton which is probably better at hiding them. What's been your experience with scratches especially with your son's love of toy cars?

i'v put down 4 different vinyl flooring products. floortet was by far the easiest. there is a U tube vid on how to do it. the instructions wernt clear. the product is better than any big box store product i'v used or seen. shipping was cut to $100 bucks so really not too bad and it still beat comparable products by $1.25/ ft. i'v recommended them and will use them on a remodel this summer

I saw a lady have one of her planks replaced right in the middle of the floor. It was glue down style but I thought you could cut out a plank in the middle of the floor and replace it. Have they told you that was possible or impossible? How long are your planks?

How did you pick which way to run your floors? Most of my house is larger Horizontal, but I have a large foyer that runs to the front and back of the house.. Hmmm..

lighter color of the bevels ruins the look of the floor in my opinion.

Cute cats! Shame on hubby for installing that bad plank right in the middle of the kitchen!

Any scratches or indentations?

Are you still happy with your floor? Any more flaws or scratching with the floor?

I cannot recommend this company. We had their flooring professionally installed (floating) in our kids' playroom about 3 years ago - nearly 1000 square feet of product. I reached out to Flooret a couple of weeks ago because we had planks separating at the sides. Flooret's initial response was to suggest that I glue down the separating planks. When I pushed back on that, they offered to send an inspector. The inspector's report states that the gaps were caused by an installation problem because the tolerance for level on this flooring is only 12/64" difference in a 10 foot span. The inspector managed to locate FIVE instances of areas exceeding this standard (none of them by more than 4/64" or 1/16") - OVER NEARLY 1000 SQUARE FEET. So, Flooret now recommends that we "simply apply a wood filler in the gaps that is in a matching color." That's not an acceptable fix. If the flooring is moving because the interlocking installation system is defective, there's no way filler won't simply "pop out." Really disappointing and a very expensive mistake to choose Flooret. So much for a lifetime residential warranty.

6:20 Why would you discard an entire plank because of some little ding? Its flooring! Its going to get dings and character. Go into any older home with nice real wood floors, and they are dinged and scratched to hell and back, and it looks amazing. If it bothered you so much, just use that as an end plank where you cut off the "bad" part.

The music is way too loud, for future reference.

nice , you are munufacture or whosale ?

Great video, but the music is too loud and too distracting.