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As promised, although later than I would have liked, here is our mighty highlight reel which summarizes this whole crazy thing. Installing our laminate flooring out on our outdoor penthouse patio in the middle of a Vancouver winter has been quite an adventure. Take a look:


Well folks, we’re almost at the end of this particular chapter of watchuswreckafloor.com. There may be other chapters to come. But, for our 12mm Toklo laminate flooring, which we’ve installed outside on our penthouse deck and subsequently abused, it’s pretty much the end of the line.


We really tried hard with this one. We were sure that the wasabi mayonnaise would not only stain our 12mm Toklo laminate flooring over the weekend, but perhaps would have evolved into a new, intelligent life form too. But, sadly no. Here’s Marc:


We are incredulous.  Flabbergasted.  Terrified, even.  But, kind of excited too.
In speaking to Jeff, CEO of BuildDirect, it appears that he is fully in favour of the chicken idea.  But, clearly there are some practical concerns.  For instance, what about bird safety?  Well, we’ve made sure that any chickens on our outdoor laminate flooring will [...]


As promised, we had a few of our friends around to see our laminate floor, which we’re trying to wreck by installing it outside in the middle of February.  It’s been out there for three weeks!  In any case, we wanted you to get the opinions of the experts.  So our friends from the blogging [...]


Well, our 12mm Toklo laminate floors have been out on our patio for one business week, not counting the time they spent as boards in their boxes over last weekend. So, we thought we’d ask Matt to conduct a damage assessment to see where we’re at. The results are somewhat disappointing, but maybe not in the way some of you are thinking. Take a look:


In the spirit of hospitality, we invited Ian Watt to come by to check out our floor. Ian is a local Realtor in the Vancouver area, focusing on condos. He’s also a podcaster and you can see his shows on his website at ianwatt.ca. In any case, his first question to us was perhaps the most obvious one: who are we trying to impress?


Anyway, Kye Grace helped us set up our watch us wreck a floor live feed, so that you can keep tabs on the state of the floor and watch some of our events live too.


As we foretold – or, as our local meteorological community have foretold – it’s snowing here in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. It’s arrived just in time to settle peacefully on our Toklo 12mm laminate flooring, which we’ve ill-advisedly installed outside on our penthouse patio. Here’s Marc, paying his dues as our resident floor sweeper and weather expert, to explain this fine state of affairs:


If I didn’t mention that Matt is a hero, then I’d like to do so now.  Matt, you’re a hero.
He’s got quite a lot of experience in laying down laminate flooring, in addition to his work in the wood flooring department at BuildDirect.  He even installed mine at home! And now, he’s been roped into [...]



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