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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 [...]


Our resident flooring expert Matt returned from the Surfaces show in Vegas with one thing on his mind – our outdoor laminate flooring which we have installed on our penthouse patio here in downtown Vancouver BC. Well, it wasn’t the first thing. It was at least the second. Here’s what Matt had to say:


Today’s installment of Watch Us Wreck a Floor is kind of what they call a microcosm; it sums up what the whole thing’s about, all within one episode. Of course, this means that our Marc is going to break a lot of stuff on the floor to see what it will take to wreck it. With his bare hands. Take a look:


Marc and Rona were set up with their own chairs to play a little blind chicken. And of course to try and wreck a laminate floor in the process. The filming today was done in two sessions – third person and first person. Here’s the third person perspective, which I shot:


As promised, sports fans we’ve staged our (first annual?) hockey game on our laminate flooring, which has been installed outside on our 19th floor patio in downtown Vancouver BC offices. Being a bunch of Canadian hockey fans this event was pretty much inevitable. You could feel the excitement!


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:


Well, continued from yesterday, here’s the finished laminate floor that Matt installed. It took him from 9:00 to 2:30, with a break for lunch to install, which is pretty good time. Maybe he would have had to have spent more time on clean-up if he hadn’t had the wind to help. Who knows?

In any case, the floor was christened. Here’s the skinny:



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