Flooring that handles real life
Most flooring is sold on how it looks in a showroom. We build ours for what happens after it’s installed — the spilled glass, the dog that came in from the rain, the dishwasher that picked a bad week to leak.
AquaProof is 100% waterproof laminate flooring that looks like real hardwood and holds up to real households.
Not water-resistant. Not “waterproof surface, absorbent core.” Waterproof from the core out.
Waterproof means waterproof
This is the part most brands blur. Plenty of flooring gets called waterproof because of a surface coating — but a floor is only as waterproof as its weakest layer, and with laminate that’s always been the core.
AquaProof starts there. The core board itself won’t swell, warp, or come apart when water sits on it. Spills don’t become emergencies. A leak you didn’t catch for two days doesn’t mean a new floor.
We put an AquaProof plank and a traditional laminate plank in the same standing water and filmed what happened to both. We’d rather show you than tell you.
It looks like wood because of how it’s made
Every AquaProof floor uses embossed-in-register (EIR) texture — the surface grain is physically pressed to line up with the wood pattern printed beneath it. Run your hand across it and the texture follows the grain you’re looking at.
That’s the detail that separates a convincing floor from an obvious one. Most laminate skips it because it costs more to produce.
Built to take a beating
- NanoTek finish — resists scuffs, scratches, and stains, and cleans up without special products
- AC4 / Class 32 wear layer — rated for heavy residential and light commercial traffic
- Enhanced water-repellent bevel — protects the plank edges, where water damage usually starts
Kids, pets, entryway grit, rolling chairs. It’s built for the floor you actually walk on.
Easy to install, quiet underfoot
- Uniclic angle-angle locking — clicks together without glue or nails
- Attached 2mm premium foam underlayment — one less layer to buy, softer and quieter to walk on, and a moisture buffer underneath
- Floats over most subfloors, including concrete slabs — which is why it works in basements
Most rooms are a weekend project. Step-by-step guides for every locking system are on our Resources page, in English and Spanish.
Where it works
Kitchens. Bathrooms. Laundry rooms. Basements. Entryways. Mudrooms.
The rooms flooring salespeople used to steer laminate away from are exactly the rooms AquaProof was built for.
Premium performance, real-world price
We’re not trying to be the most expensive floor on the market. We’re trying to be the one that still looks right in ten years — at a price that makes sense for an actual renovation budget.
Certified for indoor air quality and manufacturing standards:
Full warranty, care, and installation documents are on our Resources page — we’d rather you read them than take our word for it.
Our collections
- AquaProof — the flagship line. Classic plank sizes across a full range of colors, from light coastal oaks to deep browns.
- AquaProof XL — wider, longer planks. More square feet per plank, fewer seams, a more open look.
- Rightwood & Rightwood XL — the AquaProof line as distributed across the Southeast.
- Metropolitan — a collection developed exclusively for the New York market.
Colors available vary by region — our collection pages show what’s stocked near you.
See it in your own space
A screen can show you the color. It can’t show you the texture, and it definitely can’t show you how it looks in your light, in your room, next to your cabinets.
Order free samples of any AquaProof color. Run your own water test on the kitchen counter. See why this isn’t your parents’ laminate.