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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 [...]


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:


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:


Marc brought in his dog Luca Brasi (brown fur) to show us what a dog’s claws, and other things, can do to our particular laminate floor, installed ill-advisedly on our patio.


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!


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.


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:


In this episode, one of two today, Matt talks a bit about preparation of our patio for imminent laminate floor-ing. And Marc talks about how cold it is.



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