# Attic stock

A term used when buying flooring.

The extra material a specification makes the contractor leave, usually at the site and not in a warehouse.

Three things about this get stated wrongly. The quantity is a ratio and not a percentage for resilient work: the federal master specification asks five pieces per thousand, and wall base is a flat twenty linear feet whatever the job size, while only carpet is written as a percentage. The material is directed to be left AT THE SITE in a location the contracting officer assigns, and the specification writer's own note says to check whether warehousing is even available, so storing it back at the shop is the exception. And the lot language differs by product, the same dye lot for carpet and the same lot for resilient. The lien consequence runs opposite to the instinct too: in Florida delivery of materials to the site is prima facie evidence they went into the improvement, so stock that reached the site supports a claim and stock still in the shop was never furnished.

Part of: Buying a Flooring Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-flooring-business)

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