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More Chinese do-do, laminate flooring

Mar 2, 2015 3:38AM PST

I watched this last night on 60-mins. myself. It was real bad for 'Lumber Liquidators" and the CEO/owner? was trying to uphold it all. Boy, what a crock. Ca. testing shown levels beyond anything even safe, practically all products were above the safe level. 60 mins. also got products around the USA and they too weren't that good.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lumber-liquidators-shares-crashing-damning-123827084.html

They have to know, the Chinese and LL people. Now, they're paying for it where it hurts, in the pocketbook. ------Willy Happy

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Wow, that's a hard hit!
Mar 2, 2015 4:42AM PST

There will be a "dead cat bounce" I suspect, then more downside.

Why don't these retailers test the products BEFORE they import them to sell here?!

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First it was drywall and now flooring
Mar 2, 2015 4:49AM PST

Sounds like new construction or extensive remodeling is a gamble. Maybe we should all learn about adobe brick...if it's not full of radioactive material.

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Hmm, thought it was toothpaste, dog food and more before.
Mar 2, 2015 5:24AM PST
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Dating markers
Mar 2, 2015 6:09PM PST

Those "radioactive" markers found in the dirt deposits showing telltale sign of modern dating whatever, especially organics. It's everywhere, polar ice, beaches, trees, ocean floor, etc.. You can still visit the 1st atomic test site and walk on "glass", sand turned into it. Better brush-off the shoes before entering car.

As for laminate flooring giving off formaldehyde fumes, so in new homes being so "tight" as in insulated and practically sealed, plus any new carpeting, glues, and all put into a new home. Newer homes have air vents in order to vent all that but also to have fresh air coming it to cycle it all. Which of course makes a new home all for some people actually toxic for awhile. You have to open the windows which contractors do during building and use forced air fans to help. So, a new family moving in with rugrats in tow maybe causing early issues for growing young. And you had to worry about "lead paint" in the old days. ------Willy Happy

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ever watch...
Mar 2, 2015 8:18PM PST

....tiny nation, or the tiny homes show on FYI? I've seen them use that exact flooring on a couple of the mobile housing models they've built. Reminds me of the trailers FEMA had to store away and get rid of, due to I think the insulating foam used in their manufacture had toxic fumes like formaldehyde, making Katrina victims sick.

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Sod houses
Mar 3, 2015 2:16AM PST

Considering what goes into a new home and the increase in illness of the "sickly kind", people that just can't handle "modern life". Further, that our youth are exposed to levels of toxins unheard of before which is the norm now, really makes one think. Can we support a life style that may in the end, kill us?

One odd example: For yrs. people moved to Arizona for their health due to "hard breathing", asthma and such. Now, these same people get sick because so many homes now have gardens and non-native growth or simply growth that shouldn't be there and thus cause the same difficulties. Increase in so-called 1-in-zillion illness like people that can't stand the sun or become ill due breathing any nature air(bubble boy). Wow, what all those kids raised with baby formula, which some scientist say may also be a cause, since natural mother's milk is the start of the immune system(kick start).

Just eat your Wonder bread sandwich. -----Willy Happy

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Hazardous Refrigerators
Mar 2, 2015 8:49PM PST

The New Orleans model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_refrigerator

"This food was so toxic that it melted plastic, corroded metal, and dissolved rubber refrigerator liners[citation needed]. Even residents who suffered no flood damage lost their refrigerators in this way. Residents took photographs of their destroyed refrigerators for the insurance companies, taped the doors shut, and carried them out of their homes as soon as possible."