It seems like not so long ago, I remember being a much younger sales advisor at a retail floor covering store in Southern California. That was when our first manufacturer’s rep came to our location and presented Pergo to us. He explained this was a totally new category of flooring invented in Europe and it was also a floating floor.
We now had two new things we could be skeptical about. He proceeded to demonstrate with a few planks he had brought in. In those days, you could still smoke in public buildings, so he lit a cigarette, laid it on a plank, and we all watched until the cigarette burned out. Then he wiped off the butt and ashes and, to our surprise, it did not leave a mark.