LEWIS G. MIGLIORE - PRESIDENT

Background:

• 1971 ‑ 1972 Manager, Rochester Linoleum and Carpet retail store – Rochester, NY
• 1973 ‑ 1987 Founder and President, Magic Carpet and Furniture Cleaning a carpet repair and cleaning firm – Rochester, NY
• 1976 – 1986 Founder and President, Carpet Specialists Technical Services, third-party carpet inspection service dealing with carpet problems and complaints. Beginning in 1983 included consulting and specifying – NY
• 1986 – Present Founder and President of LGM Technical Carpet Services  
• Dealing with every type of flooring failure, analysis, on-site inspections, certified product testing, legal case assistance, proffered expert witness, mediation and dispute resolution, insurance loss evaluation, oversee manufacturing of product, identifying substrate, concrete and moisture related issues and product specification and assessment. In 2005 LGM expanded to LGMTCS and Associates Technical Flooring Services to provide superior client service with experts in all categories of flooring materials both soft and hard, substrates, adhesives and ancillary products.

Professional Affiliations and Honors:

• American Arbitration Association; former Arbitrator and Panel Member
• American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists; former Member
• Carpet and Rug Institute, Contributing Technical Consultant
• Society of Cleaning Technicians; member, 1979-80 Board Chair
• International Institute of Carpet and Upholstery Cleaners; (now IICRC) member, 1981 President
• National Association of Carpet Inspectors; Founder, 1985 Vice‑President
• Rochester, New York Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council 1985 ‑1987 Second Vice‑President
• TASA Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys ‑ Expert Witness Program; former Member
• Co-Chairman of ANSI/IICRC S800 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Inspection of Textile Floorcovering
• Speaker and Presenter for the following organizations:
  • Floor Covering Inspector Symposium
  • NFMT – National Facilities Management and Technologies
  • INSTALL
  • NeoCon
  • Floorcovering Institute
  • TISE Surfaces Trade Show
  • StarNet Worldwide Commercial Flooring Partnership
  • Fuse Commercial Flooring Alliance
  • FCICA The Flooring Contractors Associates
  • CCA Global – Carpet One and Flooring America
  • Floor to Ceiling
  • Hardwood Flooring Summit
  • Host Dry Carpet Cleaning System Dalton Summit
  • Facilities Decisions Conference and Expo
  • I. Dupont De Nemours
  • The Experience – Cleaners and Restorers Trade Show

Accomplishments:

• Author

• • The Commercial Flooring Report free monthly newsletter. With over 300,000 recipients, CFR is the most widely circulated flooring publication in the industry
  • The Claims File column, Floor Covering News, national trade publication. Characteristics, Information and Performance for Carpet and Textile Floor Covering, a comprehensive guide to fiber characteristics and performance

• • Carpet Specialists Technical Services, Technical Bulletins on Carpet Problems
  • The Senior Carpet Claims Inspectors Book
  • Nine Major Claims Categories and Problem Areas, categorizing all complaints and claims for the carpet industry
  • The Claims File Workbook compilation of columns
  • Commercial Carpet Digest, RBI International publication dealing with issues, information, problems and education for the commercial and contract carpet market
  • Flooring Forensics, column for Floor Focus Magazine
  • Talk Floor– guest speaker on flooring problems and issues
  • Floor Daily – guest speaker on flooring problems and issues
  • Author of nearly 2,000 articles on flooring issues and information

• Developer, LGM Carpet Seminar, the industry’s only independent and impartial informational and educational seminar on all aspects of carpet. A three-day intensive seminar covering every aspect of carpet, from fiber to maintenance. The most in-depth, extensive, and technically informative educational program ever offered on textile flooring materials, covering subjects from fiber characteristics to government regulations, and a brief history of the carpet industry.
• Co-Developer of, LGM Concrete Moisture and Flooring Failures This program covers the material beneath the concrete and the conditions, the make-up of concrete itself, components, additives, lightweight concrete, retarder materials, moisture vapor emission, alkalinity and surface treatments.  Reactions of flooring materials are shown and discussed as well as the influence of internal environmental conditions inside a facility and the effects of the HVAC system (heating ventilating and air conditioning). Various forms of testing equipment and their operation and how they work and are used is covered as are various forms of testing including Calcium Chloride and Relative Humidity test, Concrete Moisture Encounter meter.  Adhesives and how they work and are affected are covered and the effect moisture and alkalinity have on PVC backings and plasticizer and related flooring product performance and compromises. 
• Developer and host, The Industry Trouble Shooter weekly radio show on Floor Radio
• Developer claims forms and marketing programs for the Carpet and Vinyl Inspection Industry
• Co-Developer, Inspectors Certification Program
• Developer claims information program taught to carpet mills
• Co-Developer, quality control seminar for carpet mills
• Instructor, International Institute of Carpet and Upholstery Cleaners Claims School
• Developer, claims, installation, maintenance and padding policies for multiple carpet manufacturers
• Advisor to S600 Carpet Installation Standards Guideline
• Creator and presenter for numerous floorcovering presentations on subjects such as: