What We Do
FloorConsult provides flooring related consulting services such as in-house testing and field troubleshooting to the flooring industry and related businesses, serves as expert witness for legal counsel, conducts floor install training for heat welding and other install techniques and provides maintenance techniques and recommendations for all types of resilient and hard surface flooring, including luxury vinyl, rubber, vct, laminate, hardwood.
Our Mission
The mission of Floor Covering Services & Consultants is to provide installation and maintenance solutions to its customers. We help Architects and Designers who hate flooring problems with flooring solutions that make sense for the environment they are designing. We help Flooring Manufacturers with proper Maintenance and Installation instructions for their flooring products. We provide top expertise for floor covering installation and maintenance troubleshooting.
Owner
Reggie Hill
Our in-house, hard surface flooring expert, Reggie Hill, leads our consulting services division with more than 40 years of experience in the industry. Reggie and his team focus consulting services on the commercial flooring market, before, during or after a new floor is installed. Before a floor is specified and installed our consulting services provide flooring performance expectations, finish samples and flooring finish specifications so an architect or interior designer can uphold the integrity of a specified flooring product during the bid process in order to deliver optimum performance, especially in high use facilities such as those found in healthcare and education.
Reggie Hill founded Floor Covering Services & Consultants in 1995. Prior to starting his own business, Reggie was the Manager of Training and Technical Services at Mannington Mills starting in 1989. Before being hired by Mannington, he worked in his family’s retail flooring and custom cabinetry business in east Texas where he defined his skills as a craftsman with woodworking and flooring installation. With years of experience behind him and a keen understanding of flooring, Reggie has become an expert in his field. He’s a true professional at troubleshooting installation, maintenance and application issues for our FloorConsult clients. Finding a resolution and working through adversarial situations is one of his greatest skills. Reggie loves to present to groups, as weaving a good story is inherent in this Texan. Early morning is his favorite part of the day and he’s always on the move.
Reggie Hill
Reggie's Floor Stories
To gain more insight into Reggie Hill’s high level of expertise, read articles in his blog, Reggie’s Floor Stories™. Reggie's blog addresses generic installation and maintenance challenges with a distribution of more than 50,000 industry participants ranging from Architect / Designers to Facility Managers.
A few blog posts that contain practical flooring information are Success with Spray, Tape and Back Rolled Adhesives, Eliminate Flooring Complaints – READ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS and True or False: Tile Run Off Means Floor Tiles Not Square.
25 Years Strong – Success Through Tough Times
Floor Covering Services & Consultants is celebrating 25 years in business! Reflecting back on these years, I am grateful and proud. Grateful to those who worked beside me and to the customers we’ve served. Proud of the products and services we have offered and the company we’ve become, overcoming many obstacles along the way. At…
For a Truly Clean Floor Consider Equipment, Texture & Time
With a pandemic underway, the quest to clean and disinfect is greater than ever before. Individuals in their homes and in their businesses have heightened awareness for cleanliness that we would not have considered before COVID-19. Not that we all lived and worked in dirty surroundings, we didn’t, but the new clean involves attention to…
Best Practices for Commercial Resilient Floor Installations
All of the big flooring manufacturers – including Tarkett, Armstrong, Shaw and more – provide preferred methods of installation for professional flooring installers to follow when laying their brand of resilient floor. The methods in flooring brand installation guidelines and instructions are typically based on tried and true techniques for a floor to install successfully…
Furniture Wreckin My Floor
Claims related to scratches, scuffs and scrapes on hard surface and resilient floors is a prevalent problem. I am not referring to one deep gouge in one spot where it’s evident that an object pierced the floor. I’m talking about situations where the source of the problem is not glaringly evident and marring is visible…
Heat Welding Flooring Seams – Mastering the Fine Art
As an expert in providing heat welding help and training, I am often brought into a commercial flooring project when a problem arises on a heat welded resilient floor. Usually, I am asked to visit a facility when there is a noticeable problem with heat welded flooring seams post installation and after the customer has…
Success with Spray, Tape and Back Rolled Adhesives
Floor prep is critical and the rules are different for a successful glued down resilient flooring installation when using a spray, tape or back-rolled adhesive system instead of the tried and true trowel spread liquid broom method. It’s interesting that people are reluctant to change in a world where change is fast and constant. The…