ANyone installed laminate flooring?

[ponokareefer]

I've put laminate in our entire house with the $1 stuff, and it works well. As others have said, make sure you have the gaps against the wall. Also, make sure you don't force locking the pieces together, as locking parts will brake. Learned that the hard way.
Definitely don't put a big tank over the laminate. I went into a house where they had done this, and the section where it was done "sank".
One tip that I learned as I went along it to make sure the seams don't match up from one row to the next, as it doesn't look very aesthetically appealing. What I mean by this is, if the first piece in a row is a full length of laminate, start the next row off with a half piece instead so the joints don't come close to matching up. At the start of doing it, you'll have to make a few unnecessary cuts, but after a few rows, you'll have extra to do this with.