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Hiring Flooring Contractors

HIRING FLOORING CONTRACTORS

Flooring is the foundation for many of the activities in your home. It keeps you warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and copes with all the spills and traffic of your busy lifestyle. Choosing the right flooring for your home will enhance its appearance, functionality and value. So it's important to choose a reliable flooring contractor that you can count on to do a great job. There are so many kinds of flooring—hardwood, laminate, cork, tile. What options are the best for each room of the house? What kind of traffic flow does the room have? Will the flooring need to stand up to food and water spills? You should select a contractor with expertise with installing the particular kind of flooring you select.

USING BIZPALS REVIEWS TO CHOOSE A FLOORING CONTRACTOR

Using the information provided in the BizPals to reviews to help you select the perfect flooring contractor. Are there any special concerns that you have? For instance, are you looking to install an eco-friendly “green” type of flooring? It's an important decision but you shouldn't have to struggle with it. BizPals connects you with reviews written by customers like you and the peer endorsements for the service providers they review. With these resources at your fingertips, you will have the tools to pick the perfect contractor to install or repair your flooring and keep your house's floors warm and dry for many years to come.

CHECKLIST FOR HIRING A FLOORING CONTRACTOR

1. Always check that your flooring contractor carries liability and workers' compensation insurance. Hopefully your flooring project will be smooth and trouble-free. But if anyone is injured during the job, you want to be sure that you will not be held liable.
2. You can check the Better Business Bureau for your state and do a background check on the flooring company you are thinking of hiring. See if there are any unresolved customer complaints on record.
3. Will the flooring contractors provide a free evaluation of the project? For a major job, you should get at least three estimates in writing from different contractors.
4. If you're trying to decide what kind of flooring would best suit your home, will the contractor provide a free in-home consultation?
5. Ask if the contractor can provide you with references from previous jobs that you can talk to too. And, if possible, inspect those jobs in person.
6. Once you've picked a flooring contractor, you should have a contract that covers the start and completion dates of the project, the type of flooring material to be used, the exact scope of the work, the warranty offered and what the warranty covers (workmanship, materials, etc), payment, clean-up after the project, and so forth.
7. Ask if the contractor will carry away old flooring material or other debris from the project and if there is an extra fee for this service.

CHECKLIST FOR THE JOB

• Usually the contractors will be responsible for moving furniture out of rooms where new flooring needs to be installed. Check in advance if this is the case.
• If hardwood flooring needs to be seasoned in your home, discuss with the contractor how and for how long this needs to be done.
• If the flooring job is a major one, set up security arrangements in advance, deciding how the contractors will access the house, disabling alarms, etc.
• Pets should kept out of the way of the floorers. It's less stressful for them and will help the painters to get on with their job without worrying about falling over Fido.

CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATION

• Was the project completed on time? If any difficulties occurred during the flooring, was the contractor flexible in dealing with them?
• Were you given clear instructions about how much time was needed for allowing the flooring to settle. etc?
• If furniture was shifted, did the contractors put it back in position?

• Did the flooring contractors arrive on time each day?
• Was the final cleanup to your satisfaction?