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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.


Laminate flooring wreckage isn’t nearly as fun when there isn’t anyone watching. Don’t ask me how I know. Anyway, we’re having a big party tonight, having invited some of our friends over much like we did a few weeks ago. In any case, this is a bit of a thank you to everyone who followed our adventures. Here’s Rob, er, me:


Today, Matt “Mr.Science” Dickinson delivers the goods on which cleaning products have done the most damage on our Toklo 12mm laminate flooring. The results are highly disappointing, although they are informative I guess. Here’s Matthew:

We were really hoping for some massive deterioration, and although the boards seem to be [...]


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:


No, it’s not the startling conclusion to Marc’s fixin’s fiasco, which as he keeps reminding us will be my job to really clean up. No, today we get Matt, our sole voice of reason, to tell us about cleaning products and laminate flooring. Here’s Matt:


Well, we’ve left our sticky mess of mixed condiments on our Toklo laminate flooring overnight. And an extra special sensory aspect has been added by Mother Nature – stench. Which is nice.


As promised, here is part 2 of our chicken day at BuildDirect. In this installment, we introduce the chickens to the hard-hitting world of online building materials sales. Take a look!


Well, here it is folks – real, live chickens on our patio where we’ve laid laminate flooring in order to test out just how tough it is. So far, disappointingly, it’s held up pretty well. We even had some bloggers and Realtor-types around to confirm it.


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 [...]



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