This may be considered a blogging equivalent of nepotism, or perhaps more accurately split-personality since I’m involved. But a new blog has been launched by myself and Marc McPherson who also blogs here at BuildDirect.
The blog is called Watch Us Wreck a Floor. Check it out!
As many of you already know, every laminate flooring worth its salt is held to international standards, using controlled tests that burn, scratch, whack, stab, and drown a laminate floor.
The reason they do this is to figure out whether a laminate floor is worth selling, and if so where it should be best installed - a residence, a store, only in low-traffic rooms, and more. The rating it gets is called an AC rating, where AC3 is the all-purpose residential floor.
Here’s what we had in mind, which is explained in greater detail on that blog. Basically, we’re going to do a version of these tests ourselves, even if we’re not German guys in lab coats with clipboards. And we’re going to invite as many people into the fun as possible in seeing just how much damage a laminate floor can take. Once again, you can get the details here on where we’re going to install our test floor and what we’re planning to do.
Visit the site and submit your suggestions. And we’ll be filming everything, so we hope you’ll tune in.
Cheers!
Rob.
January 8th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
What a cool idea - look forward to seeing this!
January 12th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Hey Richard - nice to hear from you.
We’re looking forward to seeing it too. We actually, legitimately, don’t know what’s going to happen to our flooring. Installing laminate outside isn’t that smart a thing to do. But, we figure if we take things to extremes, it will be a bit of a confidence booster for those interested in learning more about laminate and perhaps investing in it. Plus, it will be fun to wreck stuff, and fun to watch too we think!
Cheers!
Rob.