Organizing the floor covering trade around the next generation of installers is going to take time and effort, but the good news is that organizations already have the knowledge and resources they need to get started.
The brainchild of interior designer Jennifer Farrell, The Interconnected Changeable Environments (ICE) House is a vision of the adapted home of the future.
Go Carrera’s Jumpstart program offers a way to track new flooring installation talent and connect them to their first job. Here, Ben Walker, discusses his journey into flooring and defines Go Carrera and some of its new features.
Flooring inspection consultant Ralph Godfrey compares retail flooring training attitudes that exist today with the training philosophy of industry training legend Ray Kaster who owned Kaster Carpet Villa in the 1970s.
In addition to typical rubber sports flooring, wood-look rubber flooring fulfills a variety of fitness facility needs such as basketball courts, group fitness spaces and functional training areas.