Laminate flooring & formaldehyde

[PauHana]

Is your laminate flooring making you sick?
This investigation into Lumber Liquidators probably applies to Chinese laminate flooring purchased from many retailers. It's an eye opener.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lumber-liqui...iolations/
I recently pulled up a laminate floor and the smell was so overwhelming I needed a respirator to enter the room to finish the job.
It is probably most dangerous for children who tend to play on the floor. Apparently there is a way to get it tested, but we just ripped it up and trashed it.

[Rob Tucker]

It's not the laminate. It is the glues used in the particle board substrate.
Look for laminates on cement bonded particle board (CBPB).

[salemlampworks]

I remember years back probably 30 or so .I had kitchen cabinets with the same glue .The remedy was air the kitchen out the formaldehyde
would gas out. Was fine after a few days.

salemlampworks