Posted on 09/10/2014 6:24:49 PM PDT by representativerepublic
I couldnt believe it when I read it. A California Superior Court judge by the name of Paul M. Haakenson ordered Lowes to pay $1.6 million dollars for selling 2x4s that are not really 2 x 4.
Yes, your read that right!
According to the Marin County, CA district attorney's office Lowes "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale." To put it a different way, prosecutors say that if products, including building products like a 2x4 or 2x8, arent actually 2 x 4 or 2 x 8 when purchased, consumers are being mislead.
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What an idiot judge....knows nothing about construction
Can I sue Home Depot for all the “defective” wood used in building my dream house. Maybe I should get around $3,000,000. Seems reasonable to me.
This Judge is setting a new low on the idiocy scale.
If they sell actual 2"x4" lumber nobody will be able to use it.
Haakenson is a flaming idiot.
It’s way worse than that. Have you any idea how much more than $.10 they charged me for 10d nails?
“If they sell actual 2”x4” lumber nobody will be able to use it—
Can you explain that to me. I know nothing about this stuff.
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That’s a special kind of stupid right there. This just illustrates how far we have gone to turn over our country and our lives to complete idiots who are handed law degrees because they embrace the fashionable ideological dogma.
How much does California have to pay for their deceptive advertising on the lotto? They continually advertise a jackpot of x amount of dollars and then pay you substantially less for taking it in a lump sum.
I can’t remember why it got called a 2x4 in the first place, maybe that was the rough dimension before milling, but in actuality, a 2x4 is usually about 1-9/16” x 3-1/2”. At 8” nominal and above, the actual dimension is about 3/4” less than the nominal. 1-by’s are about 3/4” thick. The stuff that’s actually 1” thick, like they make wood screen doors out of is called “four square”. It’s been this way as long as I’ve been alive and that’s quite a while.
A piece of wood 2 X 4 would be too big. It wouldn’t fit and the walls would end up too thick.
Why do semi-literates use both ‘$’ and ‘dollars’ in the same figure. Department of Redundancy Department?
"Two by fours aren't really two by four?"
"Yeah, everybody knows that."
"But did you know that..."
I’m in the industry and have been following this lunacy. 2X4’s began to shrink around 1910. testing showed no discernible lessening of structural strength and more units could be fit on a truck.
The judge is a moron (in the literal sense of the word)who is apparently too highfalutin to step into a lumberyard.
Should be marketed and sold with an asterisk, however, explaining the true measurements.
Aren’t the dimensions what’s left when rough-sawed 2x4 (or whatever) lumber is planed down for smoothness?
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