Laminate wood floor boards

My neighbor is replacing the flooring, dumpster being filled with that fake wood laminate plank stuff.  I don't need any right now or I'd be snagging a bunch.
If you take 3 or 4 pieces of it, laminate them together by running screws through the stack from both top and bottom, it makes excellent shelving boards. I have a lot of them in use in my pantry, from last time a house near me got theirs pulled out :D  
Highly recommend trying this, and I'm sad that I don't want to get any, but I just don't.

The stuff also would probably make a good interior for a shed, I've used it for smothering weeds in the yard, and with my hatred of waste, I HATE seeing the stuff tossed when it's just not as pretty as it was. I haven't seen any tossed for serious damage, maybe one or two bad spots, so they clear the whole floor and replace it. It's very reusable.

If I'm understanding the kind of product you're talking about, we pulled a ton of that out of this house six years ago. We bundled it up and set it aside to maybe use as a shed-floor or something but eventually we wanted it gone. It was *very easy* to find someone who wanted it pretty cheap on Craigslist or FB Marketplace or something.

This is one of the batches:

Christopher Weeks wrote:If I'm understanding the kind of product you're talking about, we pulled a ton of that out of this house six years ago. We bundled it up and set it aside to maybe use as a shed-floor or something but eventually we wanted it gone. It was *very easy* to find someone who wanted it pretty cheap on Craigslist or FB Marketplace or something.

This is one of the batches:

Yup. Same stuff.
Going into a big dumpster across the street. It was only installed 5 years ago.
I HATE WASTE.

Yes, laminate wood flooring is very popular, but who knows what's actually in it?

I'd want to get some good use out of it, rather than it going to the landfill! Shed flooring or shelving both sound great, but it wouldn't surprise me if often there's enough in good shape to do a bedroom or other smaller rooms. I've met several kitchens that would qualify has having little enough floor space that upcycling would be practical.

There's a current trend that houses need "continuity" - read, all the floors need to look exactly the same. I don't buy that! Yes, buildings ideally have some sort of "flow" or "cohesion" between areas, but all the same is boring in my opinion!

I did our living room floor in used laminate flooring. I had to nail down the planks after cutting the tracks off them cause they were a bit beat up and warped. It was a quick free way to redo our floor. Im not sure how long it will last but for now its very nice.

Pearl Sutton wrote:My neighbor is replacing the flooring, dumpster being filled with that fake wood laminate plank stuff.  I don't need any right now or I'd be snagging a bunch.
If you take 3 or 4 pieces of it, laminate them together by running screws through the stack from both top and bottom, it makes excellent shelving boards. I have a lot of them in use in my pantry, from last time a house near me got theirs pulled out  
Highly recommend trying this, and I'm sad that I don't want to get any, but I just don't.

The stuff also would probably make a good interior for a shed, I've used it for smothering weeds in the yard, and with my hatred of waste, I HATE seeing the stuff tossed when it's just not as pretty as it was. I haven't seen any tossed for serious damage, maybe one or two bad spots, so they clear the whole floor and replace it. It's very reusable.

It's surprising how many second lives that stuff can have. I've seen people reuse it for shelving, workbench tops, shed interiors, and even temporary walkways. As long as it's still in good shape, it seems like a much better option than sending it straight to the landfill.