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Everyone in the chain of a project should know and use this information. If the flooring contractor tells
the general contractor he thinks there’s going to be a problem or the potential for a problem exists every-
body needs to heed his advice. Thinking nothing will happen is a very dangerous risk that can result in
untold expenses to fix the problem. If a furnished facility has to be torn apart you can multiply the loss
related to having to replace the flooring and remediate the substrate by at least a factor of 4. Do you re-
ally want to spend or be liable for upwards of $100.00 a square foot to correct something that could have
been prevented?

If you have questions or we can help you with a problem or better yet, help you to prevent having a
problem call us. We can help keep you out of trouble with your flooring concerns or let you know why
you have them and who’s at fault if you do. Let’s keep the money in your pocket, the flooring out of the
landfill and the end user in business. That’s the essence of being green. You don’t want to experience
this kind of pain or contribute to this waste of resources. We can also test questionable flooring prod-
ucts for you to determine what may be wrong with them – certainly in the case of plasticizer migration as
it relates to this issue.

THE MODULAR CARPET MARKET: Facts You Should Know

• Highest Growth Rate of Commercial Carpet material
• Key Element of the Systems Furniture Driven Office Market – Allows Carpet to be Replaced with
no Disruption of Operation
• Unlimited Design Flexibility while Maintaining Ease of Installation
• Lower Waste Factors
• High Visibility of Major Installations
• Profitability
• Ease of Installation – transportation, handling, application, speed

MARKET SHARE

• About 60% of Commercial Carpet is Modular Carpet (Floor Covering Weekly July 2018)
• Fastest growing segment of the commercial textile floor covering industry
• It is the most highly engineered textile floor covering product
• The highest performing textile floor covering product

LUXURY VINYL TILE AND PLANK: Facts You Should Know

The fastest growing segment of the flooring market. The product category is emerging so rapidly, and
the product introductions are continually morphing that’s it’s almost impossible to keep up with. There
are so many sources that you can’t know how they are all making the product.
The price of the product is always a factor and the lower it goes the more often problems of component
and product stability and performance will be at issue. Everybody and his brother wants a piece of this
market and there are a lot of people selling the product that actually know very little about it.

FOR OUR READERS

We will continue to provide you with what we think are the most pertinent and important issues regarding
commercial flooring material and aligned information. But, if you have a question or would like to sug-
gest an article on something you have concerns about so that we can share the information with all our
readers, we’d welcome your input. This newsletter is meant to help you understand commercial flooring
products and issues to help you be the best you can be at your business and to help you be successful
and profitable in your business. We’ve got a multitude of topics to cover but we can always use your
help. Thank you, Lew Migliore

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