INSTALL Minnesota Flooring Professionals E-Newsletter
Monday, February 23, 2009
More mills, manufacturers join INSTALL
More flooring industry mills and manufacturers are now part of the INSTALL alliance. They are InterfaceFLOR, Northwest Carpets, All Floor, Burke Flooring, Bypass Carpets, Combimix, Dramatic Surface Products and Fortune Contract.
InterfaceFLOR officials say: “We recognize the importance of professionally trained flooring installers to enhance the satisfaction of our end users. INSTALL understands the unique differences in modular tile and broadloom installation and is setting the bar for training standards in all methods of installation. It speaks volumes to us that our customers are also choosing INSTALL to train their people, and we are happy to be a part of the INSTALL alliance.”
Adds Combimix leadership: “We decided to join INSTALL because we believed that the nationwide training programs would present the perfect opportunity to educate contractors and installers about the numerous advantages of our products.”
And from Fortune Contract: “Fortune Contract is proud to be associated with INSTALL. We strongly support the quality training, education and support offered to professional carpet installers responsible for the installation of Fortune products throughout the country.”
More than 80 of the most trusted and common names in the flooring industry are now part of the INSTALL program. If you are specifying the product of these partners, take that extra step and specify that an INSTALL contractor installs the materials - contractors whose flooring installers are trained and tested in those very materials!
Mills, manufacturers formally recommend INSTALL
A host of existing INSTALL partners are publically attesting to the benefit that INSTALL professional flooring installers bring to a job site. Bentley Prince Street led the drive with the following letter:
To whom this may concern:
Bentley Prince Street strongly recommends INSTALL trained and certified mechanics for installation of our highly styled commercial carpet to enhance its long term performance through keen attention to manufacturer’s requirements and industry standards. We believe INSTALL trained professionals consistently help deliver the kind of finished installation our customers expect from their investment in quality carpet.
- Chris Drummond, Vice President of Customer Quality Assurance, Bentley Prince Street
Other companies issuing similar statements are Orcon Products, Couristan Carpets, Burtco Enterprises, Omnimart Distributors, Inc., Daltonian Flooring, and Kane Carpets.
Flooring installation specs now available
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.
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