RESILIENT FLOOR COVERING CARPENTERS & CONTRACTORS QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE TO STAND ON

Local Union 2287 floor coverers and contractors that employ its members provide quality installations by the best trained professionals in the industry. Our resilient floor coverers and contractors bring core skills for proper floor preparation, installation and finishing procedures to carpet, resilients, resinous flooring, hardwood flooring, substrate preparation, self-leveling, artificial turf and athletic surfaces, sanitary flooring for healthcare facilities and so much more.

Local Union 2287 floor coverers and contractors meet your most complex needs by providing:

SKILL & PRODUCTIVITY FLEXIBILITY TRAINING We do jobs right the first time. Local Our team of experienced contractors and Local Union 2287 and its contractors Union 2287, teamed with the best floor professionals can install a vast variety partner to offer the highest quality of covering contractors in the industry, of flooring materials on residential, training and experience in the floor proudly utilize a meticulous, skilled commercial and institutional projects. covering industry. All employees are and reliable workforce. With required required to complete four years of certifications and re-certifications on CUSTOMER SATISFACTION in-depth apprenticeship training. This the most up-to-date techniques, we A skilled, reliable crew keeps the training includes classroom instruction provide speed, precision and quality customer satisfied while minimizing taught by veteran instructors and on- installations without failure. repairs and call-backs. Delivering site experience working with the full error-free installations saves spectrum of floor covering materials. LEADERSHIP time and money on repairs. Experienced floor coverers participate in career-long continuing education in a Top-of-the-line forepersons, supervisors RELIABILITY vast array of subjects to stay current with and management who understand industry technology and advancements. communication and organization make Our workforce and contractors Our training facility also offers for the most efficient, non-disruptive are readily available to cover the extensive safety and health training. projects. Through career-long training, installation of all flooring materials we continuously improve the skill in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, and productivity of our floor coverers Westchester, Rockland, Orange, to ensure superior installations. Dutchess and Putnam counties. STEP INSIDE OUR CLASSROOM

Local 2287 Floor Coverers receive extensive training, including:

SAFETY TRAINING JOURNEYPERSON CERTIFICATION

• Ergonomics • Carpet • INSTALL Carpet Certification • First Aid / CPR – Stretch-in, direct glue, double • INSTALL Resilient Certification glue, and carpet tile • AED (Automated External Defibrillator) • INSTALL Substrate (surface) • Resilient Flooring • Hazard Awareness Preparation Certification –Vinyl, rubber, cork, linoleum • UBC/NWFA Wood Flooring • Fall Protection sheet goods and tiles. Certification • OSHA 10 / OSHA 30 • Sanitary Flooring for Healthcare • UBC/NWFA Wood Floor Sand • Four Hour Scaffold Certification Facilities and Finish • SDS (Safety Data Sheets) –Flash coving, heat, and cold welding • Artificial Turf Installation • Tool Safety • Wood Flooring –Sand and finishing of wood floor • Silica Awareness • Athletic Flooring –Wood, vinyl, rubber, and synthetic turf fields, courts, and running tracks • Substrate Preparation –Patching and self-leveling • Resinous Flooring

“Our craft is required everywhere. There is always a floor to walk on, whether it is elaborately patterned carpet in hotels, wooden gym floors, VCT in classrooms, resinous flooring in subway stations or artificial turf on athletic fields.”

KEVIN FLEMING PRESIDENT, RESILIENT FLOOR COVERERS LOCAL UNION 2287 INSTALL (International Standards and Training Alliance) is a North American alliance of flooring mills, manufacturers, consultants, associations and contractors. Through comprehensive training and certification, we continuously improve the skill and productivity of our floor coverers to ensure superior flooring installation.

Our four-year curriculum is created by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters International Training Fund, and is delivered through classroom instruction and hands-on training. Content stays current with emerging trends, including best practices in occupied healthcare facilities, green building awareness and sustainability.

INSTALL constantly teams with leading mills and “There is no better trained and skilled workforce manufacturers to ensure that the curriculum in our industry than union floor covering meets current labor needs in the floor covering industry. INSTALL-certified floor coverers leave craftsmen and craftswomen. The training and the program with confidence and pride in their training, professionalism and work. Ultimately, certification they acquire through the INSTALL they are trained to maximize productivity so that contractors remain competitive in the industry. program is second to none.”

DAVID MEBERG PRESIDENT, GREATER NEW YORK FLOOR COVERERS ASSOCIATION

Our passion to lead and train:

MISSION third-party, extended warranty on for their installers. Through the labor. We believe so much in the Warranty on Labor, INSTALL stands INSTALL aims to ensure the continued performance of our trained flooring behind every job completed by health and prosperity of the North installers that our warranty is in Warranty Contractors - guaranteeing American floor covering industry, place to guarantee satisfaction. work we can all take pride in. to demonstrate a commitment to quality installations, and to enhance Hiring an INSTALL Warranty Contractor TEAMWORK the industry’s reputation. Our focus is its own insurance policy. A customer is simple – to teach the fundamentals Our alliance partners, made up of buys peace of mind and a guarantee that of our trade to enhance the level more than 100 mills, manufacturers, each flooring project is installed correctly of technical floor covering skills flooring consultants and associations the first time. INSTALL has underwritten and to meet the different needs of have a vested interest in participating hundreds of millions of dollars in floor contractors and specifiers as each in the INSTALL training program and covering installations since the inception group functions within the industry. contributing to its curriculum. Together of the INSTALL Warranty on Labor, we ensure that installers train with and there hasn’t been a single claim INSTALL WARRANTY the exact products they will use in made to-date against our warranty. the field, and receive the training When you specify an INSTALL Warranty This can only be accomplished through that is specific to those products. Contractor, the work is backed by the efforts of Warranty Contractors the industry’s only additional, free, that invest in training and certification [email protected] (212) 929-2940 • For a full list of contractors Kevin Fleming with the Greater New York [email protected] Floor Coverers Association, (917) 868-7448 please visit ccametro.com/gnyfca Barry Berman • [email protected] For a full list of contractors with (917) 374-8160 Independent Agreements, please visit ccametro.com/irfc Anthony Lewis [email protected] (917) 376-0617

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