Rubber as a flooring material has been around since about the 1940s, starting with the smooth, marbleized design tile that was a workhorse product in all kinds of heavy traffic areas.
During my career in floor covering, I've spent about 80% of my time selling to residential remodel buyers. I guess you could say it's what I do best and what I enjoy the most. Even though the average job might only be between $2,000 to $5,000, I still enjoy working with homeowners the most.
Say the word commercial and most people immediately think of those two-minute breaks between their favorite TV shows to run to the restroom or grab a bite to eat, and more recently, the 15 to 30 second spots prior to watching that video of a cat doing something cute.
At its recent convention in Ft. Laurderdale, Fla., Starnet Worldwide Commercial Flooring Partnership honored its members, vendors and the designers they work with at its 14th annual Design Awards celebration.
Unlike the residential market, which is essentially single family housing and most often dealing with remodels, the commercial sector is a vast sea of segments, ranging anywhere from corporate offices to healthcare to education to hospitality to retail to government/military and technically anything else not handled by the typical neighborhood retailer.
Pavilion Floors came to life a little over 10 years ago in 2003 with a very small startup staff. I brought 25 years of flooring knowledge to the table and a four-generation family history in the flooring industry dating back to the Mohawk/Bigelow carpet mills of upstate New York, but I knew that would not be enough.
With all the major and secondary markets in the U.S. now covered, along with 80% of the tertiary areas and, most recently adding members in the top four markets of Canada, officials for Fuse Alliance told the membership at the group’s recent convention the time is now to start thinking as a national organization and not just as a group of individual companies serving their local markets.
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