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…

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For a Truly Clean Floor Consider Equipment, Texture & Time

clean floor before & after

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…

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Best Practices for Commercial Resilient Floor Installations

Tips for A Successful Floor Installation

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…

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Furniture Wreckin My Floor

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…

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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…

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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…

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Added Value of Good Flooring Installers

When I hear hype that calls out a lack of high-quality flooring installers as a crisis, I feel compelled to add that this “crisis” is not new, it’s been around for years. I don’t see it so much as a crisis but as a culture of low bid gets the job. Flooring trade magazines are…

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Eliminate Flooring Complaints – READ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Many complex flooring problems can be avoided if one key step is included during the installation process, or rather before the flooring installer gets started gluing, fitting or cutting flooring material. What is this crucial step? Read the Installation Instructions! Makers of floors, flooring adhesives, patching and leveling compounds and concrete moisture mitigation systems have…

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It Should NOT be a Problem, I Got Sign Off!

When a floor fails and the consumer signed off on a waiver, who is responsible?

When a floor fails and the consumer signed off on a waiver, who is responsible?   First, let me make it clear…I am not an attorney and have no plans to offer legal advice in this blog regarding “release of liability” as it pertains to the installation of hard surface flooring, or any flooring as…

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Two Bucket System…huh?

Two mop buckets are better than one. Here’s why…

Two mop buckets are better than one. Here’s why… Most of my travels focus on two phases of resilient hard surface flooring installation – 1. while the floor is being installed; 2. after the installation is complete and the floor is in use. The later, which involves a review of maintenance procedures, is where I spend…

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LOW Maintenance Does Not Mean NO Maintenance

There is still no such thing as a no maintenance floor...

A frequently encountered and commonly misused phrase about flooring is “My floor is a no maintenance floor!” Apprehensive that I missed something earth shattering one night while sleeping, I decided to research 10 major US flooring manufacturers who make luxury vinyl tile. LVT is not the only type of flooring referred to as ‘no-maintenance’ however…

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ASTM F-710, Does the Subfloor Need to be THAT Flat?

Installation instructions, from most major flooring manufacturers, reference ASTM Standard F-710 for hard surface resilient flooring. The Standard simply defines the required flatness of a concrete subfloor. The subfloor, or ‘underfloor’ as I like to call it, “shall not deviate more than 3/16 of an inch in ten feet.” Photo 1 shows a ten straight edge…

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