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Other substrates also offer challenges like plywood.
      This stuff can contain a host of chemicals or be treat-
      ed with them that
      can cause an in-
      stallation to fail.
      And now another
      issue is taking
      hold and that’s
      the threat of mold
      forming under the
      flooring.  Think
      about this for a
      minute.  With
      more flooring ma-
      terial being float-               WOOD TO PLYWOOD
      ed on substrates,                 PEELED OFF EASILY
      more incubators
      are being built into the installation that provide a petri
      dish for mold and mildew to form beneath the floor-
      ing.  Who owns that problem?  Is it the flooring con-
      tractor, the specifier, the flooring manufacturer, build-
      ing owner, GC or architect?  Someone’s going to get
      dinged for this and guess what, the low hanging fruit
      in this contest is, you guessed it, the flooring contrac-
      tor.


      Flooring contractors have to deal with every conceiv-
      able issue that can make or break a successful floor-                  LGM and ASSOCIATES
      ing installation.  And if a flooring material fails, which
      will inevitably happen from time to time, they don’t
      make the flooring and may not have had any influ-
      ence in what was specified for a project.  Flooring               BEFORE YOU START YOUR NEXT PROJECT
      failures today are like playing Russian Roulette.  You
      never know when the chamber is going to come up              CONTACT US FOR GUIDANCE ON SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE
      loaded but believe me, it does for somebody every            FLOORING MATERIAL AND SUBSTRATE SPECIFICATIONS SO WE
      day, unfortunately.                                                   CAN HELP KEEP YOU OUT OF TROUBLE.


      Flooring contractors actually know more about floor-
      ing than the people making and selling it to them in
      that they know what works where from experience
      and what they’ve used in the past to combat chal-
      lenges in installation.  They know what adhesives
      have worked successfully on projects where they
      face similar conditions.  They know what manufactur-
      ers’ products perform well and those that don’t.  In
      short, they know what they can trust to work on any
      given project.  And further to change, most of the
      flooring contractors today belong to groups where
      they share information between and amongst them-
      selves.   From these associations they have a wealth
      of knowledge and experience to access.






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