Combine your flooring experience with FCITS training and their designation and help solve flooring issues as a third-party expert. For more details and registration go to: www.nfca.ca/calgary-fcits.html​

Installing resilient flooring prematurely before other trades have completed their work or in the presence of personnel not essential to the installation of resilient flooring often results in visible damage, soiling, adhesive failure, delamination, and dimensional instability. These conditions may not be immediately evident. unless otherwise permitted, the installation of resilient flooring should not begin until the work of all other trades has been completed and the area is cleared of all obstacles, movable objects etc., and on-site worker traffic. Source: NFCA Floor Covering Reference Manual of Canada. www.floorcoveringreferencemanual.com​

Floor covering installations and small amounts of moisture vapour do not mix. NFCA Floor Covering Installation Standards state: New (and existing) concrete substrates must be properly cured and thoroughly dry before commencement of any flooring installation. As curing depends on such things as environmental conditions, location of the slab and the time of year, substrate surfaces may require more drying time than normal before they may be considered ready for moisture testing. While curing to design strength typically takes 7 to 28 days, drying time for floor coverings can take many months. Allow a minimum 1 month of dry time per 1” of slab thickness (1 day per 1mm). Knowing this a year in advance helps the planning process. Finding out a month from project completion when the floor contractor is scheduled to start work is bad news for all involved. www.nfca.ca ​

Slip Resistant (Safety) Flooring: This is a general term used to describe a line of slip resistant resilient flooring that is predominantly used in interior areas where slips and falls are more likely to occur. Slip resistant flooring may be composed of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) with plasticizers, colour pigments, stabilizers, fillers, and slip resistant components or synthetic or virgin rubber and is typically available in sheet form with tile also available from some manufacturers. Source NFCA Floor Covering Reference Manual. Link to NFCA members supplying Safety Flooring in your province: https://lnkd.in/gYS-8jK ​

National Floor Covering Association (NFCA) of Canada welcomes Floors by Design Ltd. of Regina, Saskatchewan as a new member supporting quality assurance and best practices in Saskatchewan’s floor covering industry. http://floorsbydesign.ca ​

National Floor Covering Association (NFCA) of Canada welcomes Varty Floors Ltd. of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a new member supporting quality assurance and best practices in Saskatchewan’s floor covering industry. https://lnkd.in/gbrHFru ​

Resilient (vinyl, rubber, linoleuem etc.) flooring over wood sub-floors - most floor covering manufacturers do not approve of the use of a particle board, Oriented Strand Board (OSB), Particle (chip) board or hardboard type underlayment, with the exception of those types rated as "Flooring Underlayment Grade". Wood underlayment products can contain a variety of ingredients such as wax, urea-formaldehyde and isocyanate based adhesives that can cause issues. For this reason, the NFCA Floor Covering Reference Manual states that underlayment panels shall be designated "Underlayment Grade" and be warranted by the panel manufacturer for use under the specified flooring. Underlayment panels shall be free of internal voids, knot holes, splits or cracks and be complete with an upper surface that is sufficiently dense and smooth so that surface grain or texture will not be telegraphed to the surface of any newly installed resilient flooring. Compatibility between underlayment’s, floor covering products and adhesives should be confirmed prior to floor covering installation to avoid issues.