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Is that treated/engineered bamboo laminate flooring? I think I have the exact same stuff from Home Depot.
Sure is! I got it from a local flooring store and installed it myself years ago. It's hard to beat the price and hardness.
Yeah, I put mine in 8.5 years ago, and with a large dog, 2 cats, and 3 kids, it's held up remarkably well. The only problem I've run into is some of the tongue-in-groove connections have pulled apart over time creating small (maybe 1/4") gaps, but the planks themselves have been great. And frankly, that is probably a combination of installation error (by me) and us living in a pretty harsh environment with a huge number of freeze-thaw cycles and lots of snow every year (with a shitty insulation job in our crawlspace).
Nice! Mine is probably around 8 years old now. I had one section pull apart like you were saying, so maybe not user error. I ended up pulling up that section, replacing any price that seemed suspect, and glued the joints during reinstallation. That's actually what drove me to replace all the old T mold thresholds. But yeah, just that one defect across 900SqFt (84 SqM) isn't bad.