But real life is not a lab. Real life is: That bathroom that gets steamed up twice a day. A food court table that gets wiped 200 times a week. That retail counter that gets knocked by bags, keys, coffee cups, prams. A changing shed that gets sun, rain, salt, graffiti. Most fit-outs fail because moisture finds one weak spot, not because the designer got it wrong. They fail because moisture finds one weak spot. We all know this right? MDF swells. Particle board chips. A small leak becomes a replacement job. Then we do it all again. That cycle is normal in our industry. And it’s also where a lot of waste is hiding. So we stopped arguing on spreadsheets. We just put Cleanstone into more real projects and waited. Years later, those same surfaces are still getting punished. That’s what this video is. Just proof. What's the weirdest scenario the surface in your project had to endure? Drop it in the comments below: