While my beef is primarily with the conduct of Lumber Liquidators Corporation and one particular product of theirs, I previously posted this review for their Toano, VA corporate headquarters / flagship store, I dealt with this Redford store, am appalled with their behavior as well, so I'll re-post here.
Somebody at LL apparently complained about my original review, conned, paid or threatened yelp into deleting my review and 7 other 1-star reviews from the Toano location's page.
This review needs to stand as a WARNING regarding toxicity of one of their products, still proudly sold at this Redford store, and via the lumber liquidators website.
Original review: TOXIC NIGHTMARE
First and foremost, AVOID their CoreLuxe XD Dark Hollow Oak EVP product like the plague... After riding in a station wagon w/ the windows up, AC on for 25 min, my throat burned, I felt dizzy, and the car reeked like chemicals / urine.
4 hours later, I'm still feeling foggy, my throat hurts, and I've got to find other flooring in a hurry... We already ripped out all of the carpeting, my installer was there today to start!
I ordered 75 boxes (~2100sqft) of this stuff from their store in Redford, MI on 5/6/17.
I chose their product in no small part because they boasted of having two different certifications from UL for low emission of volatile organic compounds. They shipped 1 pallet of 50 boxes + 1 pallet w/ 7 boxes of the correct product + 18 boxes of something else entirely. Neither I, nor the guy helping me load noticed the different labels, I had to return to get the right stuff. Said dizziness, fumes I noticed on the longer (traffic) journey home the second time. I had my installer verify that the odor was coming from the flooring itself, not the cardboard packaging or wood pallet I stacked it on. I drove w/ the windows down to return it, couldn't get the sales person to even sniff the stuff. I took a photo of the label on one of the boxes after unloading, filed a formal complaint w/ UL re the clearly undeserved certification.
I also complained about the horrid quality of the matching transition molding and stair nose they sell to complement this garbage. Rather than being made from thick PVC, they comprise a thin soft printed vinyl tape stuck to a very thin milky white extrusion... No way that stuff is going to last more than a few months of foot traffic, especially on stair edges. The sample I was shown *after* I placed the order, was already peeling at the end. When I asked the same salesperson who refused to sniff the toxic boxes about the molding, her reply was that she's had the same in her house for 3 years and it's fine, ALL of their molding is made that way.
So far, (in 4 hrs since returning the product, 3hrs since filing the UL complaint, 1 hr since sending a formal complaint allegedly to their CEO) I've received a personal response from the UL stating they are starting a formal inquiry, and an automated response re the CEO complaint.
BEWARE of anything from this company, who apparently has learned nothing from the 2015 scandal over formaldehyde content in their particle board / laminate flooring. If it's not one atrocity, it's another.
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Update: Since this original ordeal and review, I was offered a deal on the rejected lot of flooring, after being assured by LL's Chief Compliance Officer, Jill Witter, that a group of LL executives, who happened to be making the rounds of Detroit area stores, visited the Redford store, all took a whiff, agreed that this flooring no longer reeked. This was 3 days after I returned all of it. I visited the store again, took one whiff, it still reeked. Both the store manager and 1 sales person *refused* to take a sniff, probably fearing for their jobs. I smell nothing by denial and cover-up, and am appalled that they are still selling this dangerous product and taking active efforts to quell honest accounts of their misdeeds in forums such as this. read more