Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

(This article was originally published on Houzz.com and has been edited for content and style.). The global home renovation market is expected to surpass $1 trillion by 2027, according to Global Market Insights. Add in the facts that 56% of homeowners are planning to undertake at least one home project in 2022 and nearly nine in 10 are hiring pros to help (per Houzz research) and you’ve got a state of affairs positively brimming with potential for home pros.

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Rubble Tile

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Adex USA’s highly functional and timely porcelain collection, Floor, is on display at Rubble Tile. All of the tiles in this collection are produced using recycled material ranging from 39% – 98%, making Floor a great choice in sustainable design. Designers love the tiles’ natural.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett North America introduced Discovery, a new collection designed to aid architects, designers and facility managers in creating inspiring education spaces for every learner. According to Tarkett, Discovery includes two soft surface options and a coordinating LVT, all of which were designed around the unique needs of students and educators.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Miami, Fla.—The Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer’s Association (ASCER) announced the call for entry for the 2022 edition of Tile of Spain Awards of Architecture, Interior Design and Final Degree Project. Celebrating twenty one years of ceramic excellence, the highly coveted Tile of Spain Awards program honors the outstanding use of Spanish ceramic tiles in architectural and interior design and highlights projects from all around the world.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Dallas, Texas—Daltile has launched its new Farrier collection, expertly designed with a hand-crafted clay look made to capture the essence of old-world charm made anew. “Farrier’s perfectly-imperfect glazed ceramic wall tile assortment features uneven surfaces in modular sizes,” said Laura Grilli, director of product design for Dal-Tile. “These artisan-styled tiles can monochromatically serve as the serene canvas upon which to build a space’s overall design or can be mixed and matched to form p

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

W ith congestion at the ports beginning to ease, many flooring manufacturers find themselves in a position in which they are now facing a surplus of inventory heading into the fall selling season. That’s certainly good news for retailers who hope the infusion of new fall flooring products will reinvigorate the market at a time when dealers are trying to entice consumers back into the showroom.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The annual Floor Covering News Fantasy Football for a Cause League closed this year with 12 teams : American Flooring Distributors, Consolidated Carpet, Dillabaugh’s Flooring America, FCNews, Flooring Lines, Great Northern Associates, Karndean, Mannington, Salesmaster, Republic Floor, Spartan Surfaces and Tarkett. All teams are playing for worthy causes of their choice (see list below for a snapshot of each cause represented by the league’s participants).

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Lisbeth Calandrino—By now I’m sure everyone has seen “Flo,” the fictional, insurance-obsessed salesperson from the Progressive Insurance commercials. For Flo, who clearly loves her job, it’s all about saving her customers money. (She’s also charming and filled with enthusiasm—the perfect combination for a great salesperson.) The latest Progressive Insurance campaign features real-life actor Jon Hamm, who is clearly infatuated with Flo.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Jason Spangler—W ith today’s technology, moisture testing isn’t backbreaking work anymore. And yet some professionals still overwork themselves trying to get accurate moisture readings through unreliable or time-consuming methods. Sure, not all standards should change. But as the industry becomes more innovative, some standards need to be broken to create new ones.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Calhoun, Ga.—Mannington Commercial is one of the newest members to join the Drawdown Georgia Business Compact (Compact), a consortium of Georgia businesses that are working collectively to address growing climate solutions in the state and that share a goal of transitioning Georgia to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Compact is focused on scaling solutions in ways that address other societal priorities such as equity, health, environmental quality and economic opportunity.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Dalton—The Floor Covering Education Foundation (FCEF) is expanding its team to include a new education project manager and named Jen Zurn, a CFI-certified hard surface installer, to the position. The foundation said this role will be essential to implementing technical college programs across the country and making the training needed to become a flooring installer more readily available.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Taylor Adhesives introduces new, user-friendly sizes of it’s popular products: Edge-lock and Resolute. Dalton—Two of Taylor Adhesives products are now available in new user-friendly sizes. Taylor’s Edge-lock will now be available in an 8-ounce squeeze bottle. According to the company, Edge-lock is popular with installers as the go-to carpet edge sealing glue and will now be easier to use.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As part of its rebranding strategy, Broadlume launched a new website that aims to increase functionality and ease of use for retail members. In perhaps its biggest initiative to date, Broadlume has launched a rebranding effort to incorporate all of its historical and legacy brands—FloorForce, Creating Your Space, Bridgeway Interactive, Retail Lead Management, RollMaster, Freetail and Banaboom—under the Broadlume banner.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As if freight surcharges and a labor shortage weren’t enough, flooring distributors who rely on goods coming from California now face a double whammy— AB5, a new law that essentially labels all truckers as employees , and a measure by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) requiring semi-trucks and other diesel commercial vehicles to meet new emissions standards by 2023.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Jim Armstrong—I n the first two installments in this series, I covered why building and maintaining trust is more important than ever and strategies for making this happen. In this final installment I’ll continue to add advanced trust-building strategies for any dealer who wants to become an advisor marketer. Free reports. Flooring prospects are looking for information.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Roman Basi—W henever a partner decides to enter a sale or exchange of their partnership interest , there can often be tax implications lurking. One of the most common lurking issues stemming from partnership interest sales involves triggering income from so-called “hot assets”—often in the form of unrealized receivables and inventory—that are held by the partnership.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Every two weeks, FCNews seeks out flooring retailers across the country to offer their advice on hot topics of the day. This week we asked: What do you look for when hiring an RSA? Here are their responses: We’re looking for team members that have a passion for design and a willingness to grow every day. We hire people with positive attitudes that actively listen in order to qualify our clients’ needs.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Salem, N.J.—Mannington is partnering with Roomvo to allow retailers who utilize its tools to add Mannington as a manufacturer in Roomvo applications. “At Mannington, we recognize dealers want to keep their customers on their website,” said Lori Keith, VP, residential marketing. “Both Roomvo and Mannington received requests for Mannington floors to be a part of the platform.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I have a surprise for you. On second thought, it probably comes as no surprise at all. After a little bit of a sales slowdown as spring turned into summer and fear-mongering claims of recession grew, flooring retailers en masse are telling me sales have picked up again. It might defy logic, and it certainly contradicts the fears caused by media-favorite words like “inflation” and “recession.

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