Laminate Flooring Lumber Liquidators Toxic

The laminate flooring emitted formaldehyde levels that were several times higher than california regulations allow.

Laminate flooring lumber liquidators toxic.

Virginia based lumber liquidators one of the largest flooring retailers in the country has agreed to pay a 33 million penalty for misleading investors about formaldehyde laced laminate flooring. Not all laminate flooring releases high levels of formaldehyde. We give tarkett an overall rating of 3 75 out of 5. This increased laminate wood flooring health concerns among consumers.

There are more details about tarkett from menards and other tarkett laminate flooring in our tarkett buying guide. The study only tested formaldehyde levels on a few types of floorboards. 60 minutes found that lumber liquidators chinese made laminate flooring contains amounts of toxic formaldehyde that may not meet health. Lumber liquidators recall to test program involves only laminate flooring the company sourced from china and sold between february 2012 and may 2015 when the company stopped selling it.

Many people didn t know that formaldehyde was in laminate flooring until 60 minutes reported on laminate flooring from lumber liquidators. What should i do. Lumber liquidators sells a line of dream home laminate that starts at about 59 cents per foot. The laminate flooring in my home was made in china between 2012 and 2014 and purchased at lumber liquidators.

Laminate is scratch and fade resistant incredibly durable has easy click installation and even includes water resistant options. Lumber liquidators linked to health and safety violations. Lumber liquidators bought a full page newspaper ad attempting to clear up confusion about toxins in its laminate flooring. The federal centers for disease control said on february 18 that.

The tarkett from menards is a 3 5. Epa reviewed the report released by the u s.