INSTALL Minnesota Floorcovering Professionals E-Newsletter October 2008

Virtual Portfolio Gives Construction Community Inside View of INSTALL

The everyday successes and project excellence of the INSTALL Minnesota Floor Covering Professionals are now available for review on the World Wide Web. INSTALL’s web site, www.INSTALLMinnesota.com already serves as a resource portal for specifiers, facility managers, project managers and building owners looking for guidance on flooring issues.

Now, several feature stories highlighting INSTALL Minnesota contractors can be accessed just as easily.

“This portfolio section serves as an ongoing testimonial collection regarding our contractors, so that anyone in need of a quality flooring contractors can read about these possible project candidates,” said Terry Nali, Coordinator of the INSTALL Minnesota Floor Covering Professionals program.

Nali also pointed out that the web site gives visitors a list of resources within just a few clicks of the mouse. For instance, the directory section offers a comprehensive directory of the best flooring contractors in the region. And, a question-and-answer section gives construction community members answers to flooring questions by certified flooring installation instructors.

For more information, visit www.INSTALLMinnesota.com

Give the end user what they deserve: flooring installed properly

A happy customer is usually a repeat customer. 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 the quality assurance area:

INSTALL certification is a requirement for journeymen floor coverers, and membership in a state-certified apprenticeship program is a requirement for floor coverers who have not yet become journeymen, to be eligible to install flooring on this job site.

Your colleagues are already specifying INSTALL as the mandated installer on construction and/or renovation projects in Minnesota. 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, local INSTALL coordinator, at 651-636-0091, or email him at tnali@mncarpenter.org.