Brand? Any actual specs on the product? A common complaint with cheap bamboo is the formaldehyde offgassing and that it's not from appropriately aged bamboo that would have the hardness that is usually claimed. If that product has the offgassing issue, then I'm sure Costco would refund you the price of the product. But, no one will ever refund you your time in installing it if you DIY or the money to have it installed or uninstalled if you have to pay for labor. If it gets dents in it, then the same thing applies. You might get your money back, but you'd be annoyed you were out the time you took to venture down that road. Why don't you buy a single box and give it a bit of a test in your current home? Open up the wrapper and see if it stinks you out of the house. Loose set it on the floor and walk on it. Maybe drop a few things on it. Spill a coke on it. See how it dents and cleans up or if it has any warpage due to moisture.

joepiccaso53, I think the primary reason is cost, I haven't seen any literature to suggest that aluminum is any more efficient than that of a copper coil: like specifying exactly the difference in efficiency from Coil A that is copper versus Coil B that is aluminum and that is the only difference from one coil to another. I do have literature that says just configuration of the equipment can have a mild impact on efficiency. But only mild meaning like 1% more or less efficient than some other configuration. So not enough to make it ecconomically viable to only do it one specific way. Like vertical only installs vs horizontal only. I have had plans to revisit and remake that video to show further what I believe to be the problem as I have cut the ends of the coils to reveal the tubes that have an uneven surface roughed up if you will with what looks like to be the edge of a file on the inside of the tubes that run thru the evaporator coil. So with all these peaks and valleys inside the tube of the coil the part that seals the tube in a multitude of places is very thin amount of metal. From that perspective it's not hard to imagine where the leaks are forming when the coil indicates leaks inside the fin pack area of the coil and not at the ends of the coil where they are typically chemically sealed in the case of all aluminum coils. This (the roughed up inner tube area) is essentially I believe to create more surface area, causes the refrigerant to tumble thru the coil absorbing more heat from return air blowing across said Evap coil. They were doing this sort of thing with copper coils prior to switching to aluminum. What difference does it make if failure is a given anyway? I mean you can argue copper failed incredibly easy and copper costs more etc. If the coil has a leak it's not going to operate efficiently anyway. Also they used aluminum back in the 80's for evaporator coils I just don't have any video to show that. Often the failure with those was the connection point from aluminum to copper was merely a compression type connection which would fail and no good way to fix it (meaning it wouldn't leak refrigerant) -- refrigerant was much cheaper then like incredibly cheap. The technology to meld the two metals together copper line set to all aluminum coil is leaps and bounds better than the 1980's variety, but the aluminum coils just fail elsewhere. If I had discovered some coil or some method to avoid failure wouldn't that be something to hang your hat on? If you look to that video I posted: I literally show you that aluminum coil failed all along the bottom of that coil. It's an upflow coil. Meaning the condensate waste water it creates is all along the bottom of that coil. Why are these clues important? I believe they show why there is failure and why there will always be failure. That condensate water the coil creates is what is doing it at least in this particular example. Refrigerant leaks can happen due to other reasons besides as I also demonstrated in the video.

Linda, I've seen it and it's definitely not Milanese, but I don't know what the name is. Scott, I can't eat butter so I haven't tasted the herb butter you're describing. However I would imagine that there might be some garlic along with the dill. Hopefully someone else who's a Costco shopper will come along and describe it better.

I shop at the local Walmart for all the staples because the same items in the higher-end grocery are ridiculously high. But there are some items in the higher-end store that I buy because the quality is superior and I am blessed in that I can afford to do it if I desire. While I do see customers at Walmart that appear in financial situations that would be considered poverty level, I don't assume that they are "sketchy". I see an awful lot of high-end vehicles like Mercedes and Lexus in the parking lots of Walmarts. And I'm adding this edit because it occurred to me that I might come off to some people as "sketchy" because I don't wear high-end clothes and shoes when I go shopping. I also don't wear a lot of expensive jewelry or carry a high-end purse or drive an expensive vehicle. But it's not because I don't have the money to buy better, there's nothing at a Walmart that if I wanted I couldn't afford to pay for it cash. It's just not my style. Just because my appearance is doubtful to some doesn't mean that I would ever dream of doing anything "sketchy". I used to know of a truck stop where they served country-cooked southern breakfast - mostly truck drivers but also a lot of locals. My sister worked there at the time and she pointed to a man wearing bibbed overalls and said "you'd never know by looking at him, but he's a millionaire". There are very poor people in poor clothes that wouldn't do anything "sketchy" if you paid them. There are also people who live high on the hog who are moral pigs.