12 mil laminate

[don &/or Lucille]

I'm trying to match thickness of laminate flooring. What part of laminate is

12 mil?

[Jeff Thies]

All of it!

12 mil is almost a half inch (25.4 mil/inch), quite thick for laminate flooring.

Jeff

[Joe]

Do you mean 12 mm (millimeters)? In trade jargon a mil is 0.001" so

0.012" would be rather thin.

Joe

[EXT]

That could be the thickness of the laminate coating on top of the MDF board. The OP needs to clarify his measurements or what he is talking about.

[Jeff Thies]

I am assumed mm, but I copied the mil. My mistake, and probably the ops as well.

All the laminate I've seen is speced in total thickness and in mm.

Jeff

[Frank]

I believe one mil is one thousandth of an inch. If so, 12 mil, about the thickness of 4 sheets of paper would probably just refer to the surface thickness of the laminate.

[Jeff Thies]

That seems like a reasonable number for the photographic layer, so perhaps.

But I see that 12mm laminate is not uncommon (not that I've seen it), so it seems more likely the OP is mistaken.

Jeff

[Johnl]

I installed 12 mil laminate last year. It is very close to 1/2 inch. thick.

[Frank]

I just did one googling and saw Armstrong laminates were nearly a half inch. I still think mil is one thousandth of an inch or folks are mixing mil and mm.

[don &/or Lucille]

[don &/or Lucille]