Flooring installation specs now available
2/23/2009 --
Ensure that the floor covering component of your project is completed properly, on time, and on budget. Be sure to specify that your flooring contractor has the training, skills and experience to make the right decision, so that the floor does not fail. One way to ensure that is through detailed specification. Mandate that your flooring materials are installed by an INSTALL-trained or INSTALL-certified professional. That specification still keeps your project open to dozens of prospective, qualified contractors, while at the same time weeding out poorly trained, ill-qualified, less reputable or less-equipped outfits.
Here is language that you can use for your next specification, to be inserted into different sections of Divison 09:
09 60 00 Flooring
09 61 00 Flooring Treatment
09 62 00 Specialty Flooring
09 64 00 Wood Flooring
09 65 00 Resilient Flooring
09 67 00 Fluid-Applied Flooring
09 68 00 Carpeting
Part 1
General Quality Assurance: Installers: Skilled trades people enrolled in a state-approved apprenticeship program, or certified by a program equal to the INSTALL program, which includes:
- 4-year apprenticeship program (160 hours a year)
- Career-long training
- Manufacturer-endorsed training
- Fundamental journeyman skills certification
Your colleagues are already specifying INSTALL as the mandated installer on construction and/or renovation projects in the Philadelphia and Delaware area. And, more building owners and facility managers are in the process of securing INSTALL flooring installers for their structures. We invite you to leverage this benefit, as well.
Please specify INSTALL. Should you need more information about flooring issues or if you need exact specification language, please do not hesitate to contact Terry Nali, the INSTALL Minnesota coordinator, at 651-636-0091, or email him at tnali@mncarpenter.org.