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:
Thanks again to everyone who contributed ideas, and for those who came to party with us and helped us wreck the floor. And we appreciate everyone who tuned in to see what we’d cooked up, too. We appreciate it.
This chapter of the wreck a floor saga is over. But, we’re looking at the next thing to rise up in its place. Watch this space!
Cheers!
Rob, Marc, and the BuildDirect crew!
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Watchuswreckafloor Finale Party!
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 have to admit; our floor was a worthy adversary, standing up to some incredible suffering that no floor should ever be exposed to. And for this party, we all got kind of carried away. Take a look:
Yes, we did. We really did.
Thanks to everyone who came to our little soiree, and particularly those who wielded the mighty pickaxe for the cause.
And do stay tuned for our highlight reel,coming soon!
Cheers!
Rob.
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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:
So, stay tuned for the party, which we’ll be showing you on Monday, along with our highlight reel which will will give you a nice overview of how we tried to wreck a 12mm Toklo laminate floor by installing it outside on our deck in the middle of a Vancouver winter.
Cheers!
Rob.
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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 separating here, and on other parts of the floor, there’s no real damage. We’ve had a lot of rain lately, which is to be expected in a Vancouver winter, and that has wreaked some havoc. Yet, our laminate floor has been on our patio for a month. There’s no way it should be holding up this well, even with all of the rain and all of the other weirdness we’ve thrown at it.
It’s kind of annoying!
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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:
Not one stain. Not one! It just doesn’t make sense. But, there it is.
You’ll be happy to know that I will have to clean up that mess in time for our next big event at the end of the week. More news on that soon!
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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:
So, like Marc’s mess, Matt’s experiment will go until next week. Stay tuned to see which cleaners leave the most damage.
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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.
Still, here’s Marc with an extremely half-hearted attempt to clean up:
We’ll leave it until Monday, and then do a second sweep as it were, and see just how badly stained we’ve gotten our floor.
It may amuse some of you to know that I stepped in Marc’s maple syrup puddle, which means that my right shoe is sticky. It makes rhythmic *swack* *swack* sounds on the tile when I walk…
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Hello floor-wrecking fans!
You know how your fridge seems to give birth to bottles and bottles of half-used condiments? Like the History of the Blues, no one really knows how old they are.
Well, it’s no different here in BuildDirect’s penthouse suite office in downtown Vancouver. We have our own collection of stalwart condiments of undeterminable age. And since we have a floor to wreck, that gave us an idea how to make our floor wreckage a little tastier. Here’s Marc…
What a mess. And guess who’ll have to clean it up. Hint: the answer was in the video, and it’s not Marc.
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Well, folks. So far, we’ve exposed our laminate flooring to all kinds of torture, the most recent being a bunch of chickens.
We’ve left some of the, uh, refuse to stand over the weekend. It’s pretty corrosive stuff, as is all bird, um, stuff. Roofers the world over will tell you that.
Let’s see how our Toklo laminate floor has done. Here’s Marc and Matt to give you all an idea of where we’re at today!
So with weather changes, rain, snow, hockey tape scuffs, chickens, knives (apparently!), and all of the normal stuff that outdoor flooring is exposed to, our floor seems to be dirty, but happy.
But, our creative, or should I say destructive, juices are flowing.
IT AINT OVER YET!
Cheers!
Rob.
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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!
All in all, the chickens seemed to enjoy their new surroundings, although we don’t think they’re cut out for life in our downtown Vancouver office. The chickens are used to a MAC environment, and can’t get with Windows.
Seriously, although they were a little freaked out on the trip, they actually were pretty chilled once they got here – well, chilled for chickens anyway. And now they’ve been to the big city! How’s that for free range?
Thanks again to Randy who brought them and taught us how to handle them.
Thanks again to Matt for installing our makeshift chicken coop, just in case one or all of our friends decided to take flight. We’ll talk to Matt on Monday, to see if the chicken scratchings, peckings, and ‘leavings’ have had an effect.
And Happy Valentine’s Day, lovebirds!
Cheers!
Rob.
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