Jim Aaron, executive director, Floor Covering Education Foundation, talks about the launch of the program while Dave Garden, CFI Master Instructor, shares the students’ response to the first week.
During week three of the 10-week Basic Flooring Installation Program, Joe Cea, technical specialist, Congoleum, worked with the students, giving them tips and tricks on installing resilient flooring donated by Congoleum.
I understand the techniques required to be successful when heat welding and the on-going challenges locating trained installers qualified to heat weld, however, it’s just as important to use skilled installers when cold welding a seam.
Heat welding is extremely popular and often required in vinyl sheet applications in laboratories, clean rooms, and medical environments such as operating suites and patient rooms.
While our industry as a whole experienced many firsts this year, one thing about 2020 remained the same: our desire here at FCI to showcase the extraordinary talent, craftsmanship and skill of the flooring installation industry.
All LVT/LVP flooring shares the need for the substrate to be perfectly flat to perform properly. While every step of the LVT/LVP project is important, proper floor preparation can help avoid problems, save time and money, and ensure owners are satisfied with their floors.
In the sixth edition of our FCI Installation Awards, we were yet again blown away by the talent, craftsmanship and skill of the flooring installation industry.
Last month, we took a look at the top Commercial category winners in our fifth annual FCI Installation Awards. This month, we explore the Residential category-winning projects.
