The floor covering industry offers a range of rapidly renewable and biodegradable options, including cork, linoleum, and bamboo. This seminar covers specifications, installation procedures, and maintenance recommendations for these environmentally-friendly materials.

Natural fibers—including wool, cotton, linen, silk, sisal, jute, seagrass, paper, and coir—offer elegant and environmentally-friendly solutions to your carpeting needs. This lecture covers these natural fibers from harvest through maintenance: where they come from, how to distinguish between them, appropriate uses, installation methods and concerns, and proper care.

Learn to distinguish for quality among the many choices when specifying carpeting for your residential clients. This seminar covers fibers and backing materials, carpet construction and manufacturing, installation concerns including seaming and transitions, and carpet care.

Learn how commercial carpeting is manufactured and how its construction affects performance. This seminar also covers reading specifications, fibers, environmental concerns (LEED), backing materials, installation methods, and maintenance.

Carpeting staircases can be difficult to get right, and is an often overlooked but crucial component of interior projects. This seminar covers design options and installation techniques, considerations for selection of carpeting and padding, and information on how to assess quality and performance expectations.

Durable, easy to maintain, and comfortable, resilient floor coverings are popular choices for many applications. This seminar compares raw ingredients, manufacturing processes, recommended installations, maintenance requirements, and lifecycle costs for resilient flooring materials including linoleum, vinyl, rubber, VCT, and cork.