How To Buy Flooring

About the Book

Today we live in a fast-paced, busy kind of world. We want the best price and expect top quality all at the same time. We have become used to many choices, especially in the flooring industry. Carpeting, for instance, comes in hundreds of different styles, colors, weaves, textures, and thicknesses. Wood, laminate, ceramic, porcelain, vinyl tile, sheet vinyl, and linoleum also have hundreds of different variations. So how do you know what to buy when you are shopping for flooring? What type of flooring is best in what area? I can help you with these types of questions.

About the Author

I was born in Emporia, Kansas, in 1956. We moved to Houston, Texas, when I was eight years old to be close to my mother’s sister after my mother’s divorce. She remarried four years later, and when I was fourteen, we moved to the country north of Houston. I got my first job flipping hamburgers at sixteen years old, and I did that until I was nineteen. Tired of the fast-food business, I joined my brother doing the finish trim on houses in the Houston area until I decided to get some college credit at age twenty-five. In 1982, I started working for a carpet installer for six dollars an hour part-time while going to college in Huntsville, Texas. I trained with him, bought my own tools, and started repairing carpets in an apartment complex for $25 per hour. I married in June of 1985 while working as an installer in Huntsville. A short time later, we moved to Jacksonville, Illinois, to be close to her grandmother. In 1986 I began a service business that focused on flooring repair and carpet re-stretch as well as new installations for the retailers in the area. We moved to Arkansas to be close to Carole’s ailing mother in 2001, and soon after, we opened our first retail flooring outlet. We moved back to Jacksonville in 2007 where I continue to run a flooring service business while selling health and life insurance and annuities part-time.