With pets and shedding it was almost a must for us. We replaced the carpet in our class A with laminate, except for the slide outs, and bed room, (I hate getting up and putting my feet on the cold surface! We hired an installer, checked him out on line, and he did it in a day. To save time and money I removed the old carpet. It was 3 years old and we were good at keeping it clean or so we thought! It smelled and weighed a lot! The new laminate was at least ½ as heavy as the carpet, pet hair, spills and other accidents were easy to clean up. We ordered our 5th wheel with laminate flooring!