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Cat Hatter posted:Put me down for team "Flippers and Landlords buy the same garbage" Flippers, landlords, and bottom-line contractors, but yes this.
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Nitrox posted:This is formaldehyde enriched laminate that Lumber Liquidators were blowing out for $0.29/foot in order to remain in business after insane lawsuits. It is truly the shittiest and the cheapest flooring money could buy, even before you think of formaldehyde poisoning. Contractors were quoting $1.50/foot installed, and every slumlord jumped on that deal. I bought and resold several pallets of this garbage, and it moved fast enough to never trickle up to actual homeowners. I just wrote today to replace an entire downstairs of this crap. Owner bought it after it was flipped in 2018. He was so happy to be rid of it, it would bubble & lift at the slightest hint of moisture. moist turtleneck posted:Also I'm pretty sure Pergo made a design that was exactly like that, something oak I remember when Pergo started selling in the US, because we had a flooring rep/tech come and give a presentation to our claims office when I was at Prudential in 1996. Initially it was warranteed against water damage from pooled water for 45-minutes. (The real, old Pergo - one of the very first floating floors - was tough as hell because it was designed for the European/Scandinavian/UK market, where when you moved out of your apartment odds were you took the appliances, cabinets, and flooring with you, and trimmed or added at your next lease.) Not sure what happened, but I suspect they were lured by the siren song of the US market - we don't do that here - and started cutting corners because over the course of the next decad, that warranty withered away as the exposure times got shorter & shorter.
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That isn't crappy construction. It's jizzy construction.
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Jizzy Construction: The Four Penii of The Cumpocalypse
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PainterofCrap posted:(The real, old Pergo - one of the very first floating floors - was tough as hell because it was designed for the European/Scandinavian/UK market, where when you moved out of your apartment odds were you took the appliances, cabinets, and flooring with you, and trimmed or added at your next lease.) I have genuinely NEVER heard of anyone taking their flooring with them here. Appliances, yes, cabinets, sometimes, flooring... what the hell.
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kid sinister posted:That isn't crappy construction. It's jizzy construction. Cumstruction
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Dillbag posted:Cumstruction Fappy cumstruction
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PurpleXVI posted:I have genuinely NEVER heard of anyone taking their flooring with them here. Appliances, yes, cabinets, sometimes, flooring... what the hell.
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Nitrox posted:There are rental apartments or houses in the US, where appliances aren't included. In my experience, it's usually absentee landlords who just don't want the responsibility of repair and replacement.
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Zereth posted:They usually supply floors though. Apartment Listing Cagey About Whether Unit Has Floor
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Floors? In this economy?
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PurpleXVI posted:I have genuinely NEVER heard of anyone taking their flooring with them here. Appliances, yes, cabinets, sometimes, flooring... what the hell. In Finland at least, for rental apartments the fridge/freezer combo is standard equipment. Other kitchen appliances like microwave you bring yourself. Any laundry machine is usually the tenant's own, but in apartment buildings there may be one or two shared laundry machines in the basement. Cupboards are made to measure and belong to the apartment. The floor however is whatever you can scrape together. I prefer styrofoam because it is warm, easy to cut into shape and can be found in landfills for free.
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I guess my response is that floors are also made to measure for the space?
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Typically in us rentals if you try to take the floorboards with you when you leave you're not getting your damage deposit back, is "floor" european for a rug
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Typically in us rentals if you try to take the floorboards with you when you leave you're not getting your damage deposit back, I assume here the "floor" is some kind of mat over the actual floor like a rug or something? Do they not have rugs in finland I mean yeah it's finland not rugland. DUH
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:When it's pretty darn windy (note the portaloo blowing over) and you skimped on the diagonal bracing a little
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Saw that on Reddit, each floor collapsing one after the other in exactly the same way is comic perfection
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The actual structural floor stays in place, but since that's usually unfinished, rough concrete, whatever you put on top of that like laminate or carpet not so much. Many places it states explicitly in the lease that you have to remove it when you move out. At least, that's what I've heard from Dutch acquaintances.
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