I'm working at home depot now and doing a LOT of online training.
Key takeaway: almost all modern flooring is toxic. Holy crap! Carpet is the worst. The longer the expected life, the worse it is.
If you care about plastic toxicity, do not use most modern flooring in your home or place of business.
Fiat really does ruin everything.
#homedepot #homedespot #flooring #microplastics #poison #fiatruinseverything
#nocarpets #hardwood #tile #flooring #carpets
yep. plain old wood is best.
Stone and tile is also fine, just watch how they are affixed.
one of my dad's close living friends that we referred to as 'uncle' was a tile layer for his whole working life.
in the end he ended up with a type of slow growing lung cancer as a result of all the tile dust he inhaled as a tile layer from trimming tiles.
I hope and suppose that people who cut tiles on a machine wear masks nowadays.
Wait! Does this mean no future editions of MaW?
Thanks for the heads up.
Well, people need to make their fake money somehow🤷.
Congrats on the job move, Beave! 🚀
Yeah, if it weren't for Chinese toxic manufacturers that our country sold literally almost everything out to, most people's houses would not exist.
They would, but... They would not be as "cheap."
S'why I'm going to actively not build to code...
The dream is to take a bin full of hand-tools to a parcel of land, and be given 5 years to craft it into a home using whatever is at hand. Should be a right a passage after which a young man is eligible to marry.
rite of passage
Oh yeah dude, code is the bear freaking minimum and it's a really really low bar.
Carpet is made of plastic?
Yes, and some really gross ones, at that.
What do you recommend for flooring? Tile? Vinyl?
Vynil is cheap and durable but... I'm sure it is toxic.
I’m just wondering what is the right balance of safety for toddlers
Good old linoleum. Cheap, super durable, easy install, made from flax, will not off-gas like vinyl.
Is that flooring or something you place on top of the flooring?
That is the flooring.
Do they still make it from flax, though?
😡 ANOTHER EXAMPLE. STAY OUT OF THEIR GARDEN CENTER AS WELL.
We were discussing this yesterday with some friends oddly enough. We bought new couches about 2 years ago and it took ages for the chemical smell to disappear, although they will still be impregnated in the furniture. Same for carpets, especially synthetic.
Yup... I'm pretty much never going to buy most junk these days.
Foam cushions are... Gross.
I'd like to re-do the floors in our home soon. What do you recommend? Hardwood only?
We have cork.
Some of it depends on what you need the floors to do. Hardwood isn't great for radiant heat.
But, hardwood, stone, tile, or cork (but you need to figure out what adhesive is going to be used, as in many cases you can have a good material glued down with stuff that's full of rather bioactive compounds and that's not so good).
i prefer stone tile floors personally, actually i like stone everything, i would prefer to live in a house that has wood maybe for roofing, but probably metal framing, and floors made of stone or ceramic tiles, with modern materials all of this is relatively free of toxic plastics
Thanks so much for this. When I go shopping at a flooring company, what kind of adhesives should I tell them to use, or not use?
Omg relatable. Recently got a new couch, modest priced one, and for at least two weeks it was smelling strong af. Was starting to consider sending back. More or less gone now, as far as nose can tell anyway
Didn’t know that. Thanks.
If you want another example of #keepnostrweird, look at this thread where we start with poison plastics, move to metalurgy, and eventually end with metaphysics, apocolypse, and extradimensional beings and transportation.
I love nostr. 😁💚
Yeah. That's why we opted for Marmoleum and we hope it's marketing is not (totally) lying.
And I spent weeks to find 'affordable' wool carpet.
my girlfriend back in 2003 her mother was a wholesaler of very nice goat hair carpets made in ireland, that lady knew a lot about flooring technology
