Replacement Carpeting
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March 29, 2012 under Carpet, News
Commercial Flooring & Interior Concepts, CFIC, has just completed the replacement of carpeting for the headquarters of Central Jersey Mechanical located in Long Branch, NJ.
Safety
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March 29, 2012 under Transition Issues
We recently reviewed our safety processes to minimize installer injury and lost time due to injuries. Flooring installers utilize knives to cut the materials they are installing. The blades are razor sharp and can easily cut the worker. Knife safety is therefore of paramount importance to both the worker and the employer alike.
Ironically, an important part of knife safety is to make sure that the worker uses blades that are sharp. Using a dull blade can be very dangerous. A dull blade cannot enter that material the same way as a sharp blade can, and this is one of the causes of accidental knife slippage.
Another key to avoiding injuries is to use a holster for the knife. Laying down a knife onto the work surface can be a hazard. Putting a knife into a holster instead of laying the knife down on the work surface can prevent the accidental cutting of a hand or finger.
There are knives available that can retract after each cut. One manufacturer that makes a fine knife with this feature is from Martorusa. http://www.martorusa.com/Information/Smart-Knives
These retractable knifes are of excellent quality. The only draw back we found with that knife is that it doesn’t come with carpet blades. They offer two blades right now – a utility blade and a hook blade.
Finally, the use of Kevlar cut resistant gloves is one step towards minimizing or preventing accidental knife cuts. We highly recommend the use of gloves.
Rubber Stair Treads for Greater Slip Resistance
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March 15, 2012 under Carpet, News
Commercial Flooring & Interior Concepts, CFIC, just completed the replacement of over a thousand stair treads in three buildings in Plainsboro NJ.
The nine stairwells were completed over the course of three weeks on both regular hours and weekends. The new Johnsonite rubber stair treads offered greater safety features than the client previously enjoyed. The use of a sand paper insert on the nose of the tread provided greater slip resistance. With the average slip fall claim costing corporations thousands of dollars, it makes sense to review the products that are in a facility to make sure they are the safest possible.
CFIC can help navigate the various choicest to make sure they are the best available.
10,000 Feet of Carpet
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February 22, 2012 under News
Commercial Flooring & Interior Concepts, CFIC, was selected to replace approximately ten thousand feet of carpeting for Merck Pharmaceutical Company in West Point Pennsylvania.
Interface Brand Carpeting
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February 20, 2012 under Carpet, News
Commercial Flooring & Interior Concepts, CFIC, just completed the replacement of two complete floors of Interface Brand carpeting for a Princeton Pharmaceutical company. The occupied space was completed over the course of two months. CFIC coordinated the delivery of heavy duty plastic moving crates. CFIC facilitated the moving or lifting of office furniture. The project was phased into approximately forty phases.
Carpet Cleaning Maintenance
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January 22, 2012 under News
Commercial Flooring & Interior Concepts, CFIC, provided carpet cleaning maintenance for Peerless Beverage’s headquarters in Union NJ. CFIC has been responsible for the carpet replacement and maintenance for all Peerless’ facility.
Day Care Facility Carpeting
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January 15, 2012 under Carpet, News
Commercial Flooring & Interior Concepts, CFIC, just completed the carpet replacement for a South Brunswick based day care facility. The project was completed using J&J Invision Carpets Impulse Modular. This three phase project freshened up a project we originally installed.
Banana Republic Carpeting
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January 5, 2012 under News
Commercial Flooring & Interior Concepts, CFIC, was chosen by Rebcor Construction to install the carpeting for Banana Republic Retail store in Mercer Mall.
Green Buildings Summit
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June 2, 2011 under Green Buildings
Commercial Flooring & Interior Concepts at the 3rd Annual Green Building Summit 2011, Thursday June 2nd at the Trenton Marriott in Lafayett Yard Trenton, NJ.
This event featured some of the industry leaders in providing Green building solutions to the marketplace. Attendees included leading Commercial Developers, Builders, Property Owners, Investors, Multi-Family, Architects, Engineers, Attorneys, Local and State Government Officials and Economic Development Agencies.
Commercial Flooring concepts showed several products that have significant green stories to them.
Armstrong’s bio based tile was our featured resilient flooring product.
We also featured several wood products from Eco Timber. Eco timber is a manufacturer of wood products that harvests their products in an environmentally and substainably way. They do not use formahldahyde in the manufacturing of their products.
Interface Carpets was featured as our green carpet leader. Several unique products that they offer include a revolutionary installation method that does not use glue out of a bucket. They have a products called Tactile. It is a small square of adhesive that allows for a quick and odorless carpet installation.
Have questions about how you can make your building green from the ground up? Contact Tom Mikulski
Carpet Border Height Difference Issue
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August 7, 2010 under Transition Issues
Sometimes two different carpets are specified for a field and a border. The heights of these two products may not neccessarily be the same. If that is the case, the client may want the heights to be the same. In order to accomplish this task, there are a couple choices. One choice is to glue VCT tile underneath the product that is lower than the other to raise the height up. The VCT can then be ramped down from the 1/8 height to nothing using a portland based patching compound such as Ardex featherfinish. Another option may be to use Johnsonite levelers. This vinyl product will take a height variance and ramp it down to nothing. The beauty of this product is that you can cut it to the height you need to correct and there is no down time waiting for patching compounds to dry.