How to Install Pergo Flooring: Chapter 5 - Installing Pergo Click Joint

Installing your Pergo flooring planks is easier than you think. At a 45 degree angle just slide the tongue down into the groove.

[danscar]

Video makes everything simple. No vents to worry about or mention how to work with other than measuring.

[jackmcmillan]

Don't know about Pergo Max, but I'm installing Pergo XP. Tried the method in the vid here and everyone is right, it is a bear trying to do that angle method. I don't know why they recommend that method when there is a MUCH easier way- You angle the long side in, with the short end as close as you can get to the other end (within an eighth of an inch or so), and then just tap it in using a tapping tool. (preferably the long metal one, not the tapping block. It comes with the install kit that Home Depot sells for abt $18. Very very wuick n easy. No row lifting, and everything stays in place. My floor urned out perfect.

[khautz]

Pergo, I am trying to install this product but this technique does not work for distances more than 14 feet. the pieces done earlier pop out and you have to start over. I am very frustrated with this product at the moment

[charliecoats]

Really - why not show placing spacers and moving to wall and show further installation.

[CBrunk]

This technique simply doesn't work unless you're flooring a 4x4 box. To get the side snapped in, you have to unlock your entire length of boards! This is showed in this video, but she isn't working with a real world length, just two boards. When that happens, gaps start appearing down the entire length, even with two people trying to keep them together. We had to snap in the length, then hammer the board in to lock to the adjacent board. This design doesn't work as advertised.

[jonmichael]

She supposedly clicked the 4th board into place and corrected the gap that the couple pointed out but if you pause it at 2:57, there's a gap that she created at the other end. This is the problem with every laminate flooring video I've seen and everyone I've asked....there's really no easy way to do this other than to constantly mess with it. I'm seriously thinking about just nailing my down.

[jeffpardee]

This video is bull. I'm installing the Pergo Max laminate and it couldn't be more difficult. Every plank has to be pounded in. There is no rotating the row and snapping in place.

[krazynina]

Hammer and hitting block (I used a four by four as a block ) Don’t be scared to hit that block they will eventually settle in and if they are sticking up at the end smack them in with your palms.

[routesixtysix]

Where is the real Pergo XP video? That stuff is not locking

[SethMcClaine]

Peftect if you're only going to do a room with only 4 planks...

[idahobob]

What about per instructions cutting tung off the side and back, first row.

[TomDeVito]

The floor is relatively easy to install up until you get into a narrow hallway or tight space then your gonna be cursing up and down with all the cutting involved

[cmebrain]

This was not my experience with Pergo MAX flooring.  My "short side" of my planks will NOT slide once connected and therefore this joining method does NOT work for me.  I have to make an entire linear plank section and then lock the entire length (taking two persons) in to the existing flooring with MUCH trouble- it is like a moving puzzle piece.  Also, the video should show detail as to which is the groove/tongue side, and how she "ripped the width of the plank".  That is a necessary detail that is not covered.

[fnagdungdagint]

Lift the row, huh? Now you're telling me. I just smashed a floorboard 😅

[samueldanby]

0.097% percent of viewers gave it a thumbs up

[Chainspike]

lol install is nothing like that. first off yeah it's easy to pick up the row when you only got 2 boards but try that when you got like 4-5 not gonna happen. They definitely don't snap down like that, you gotta hold them up at and angle and then wack it in with tapping block. Then you gotta tap them forward into place. This video is so far off it's not even funny

[brandonhunt]

Can someone have a guy explain this please

[kevinpezzi]

This is not applicable to Pergo XP -- supposedly their latest, greatest product. Pergo XP is pricey yet cheap junk that's so fragile it can be easily damaged even by careful installation. Even when pieces aren't damaged during installation, there's often a palpable height difference between adjacent pieces.

Pergo's quality control is abysmal; every piece is dusty (and sometimes chipped) out of the box and has a slight warp that makes installation more challenging and time consuming. The attached pad is so fragile it is permanently indented with light finger pressure.

For reference, I installed about 1300 sq. ft. of Pergo and Tarkett years ago with ZERO installation problems. Compared with that, Pergo XP is a nightmare. I carefully selected boxes to ensure I received ones in perfect condition; its manufacturer (or distributor) is so daffy they had protruding rusty nails that damaged cartons on the bottom row of freshly unwrapped pallets. I also read the installation instructions (twice) and watched their videos -- I replayed this one about ten times, exactly replicated what Ms. Model did, and the pieces immediately cracked!

The Pergo XP I bought is evidently sold exclusively by Home Depot, making me wonder if they cheapened the product and charged more for it to generate Extreme Profits -- it's definitely not Extreme Performance, which is what XP supposedly signifies.

[VoiceDept]

Ridiculously bad version of click lock.
Install 1 plank, then uninstall it to install the next, then uninstall those two in order to install the third…
I’ve got a 20 foot room. Can you imagine lifting the entire row to install the last plank of that row?

Home Depot’s Traffic Master brand just clicks down into the short end. No stupid games. Build on that system for installation, Pergo.

[bstroh]

This is a horrible product. I’m beyond frustrated installing it. Taking it all back