Contractor Profile
Old floors –who you gonna call?
SIMON Testa, managing director of Stainbusters Cleaning and Hygiene, which is described as a specialist...
‘Look after your people’
An analysis of Nationwide Flooring which was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Trafford...
A ONE-STOP SHOP SERVICE
MORRIS & Spottiswood has been delivering flooring services internally to its fit-out teams and direct...
‘Our work ethic is our pride’
A focus on Midlands Flooring which has up to 32 subcontractors and a turnover of...
Kemtile: a single-source service company which manufactures and installs
DAVID Priest, key account manager and head of marketing, tells CFJ Kemtile was started back...
Time is of the essence
Dixon Floors prides itself on the fact it always starts and completes its projects on...
Lights on in the city
Founded in 1991, City Flooring Europe is a family-run business which has a showroom based...
Lights on in the city
Founded in 1991, City Flooring Europe is a family-run business which has a showroom based...
Biswell Flooring, awell-established,reputable contractor
This month we profile Biswell Flooring, an expert in the full range of soft flooring...
An unparallelled dedication to quality
AG Flooring, founded by Alan Gayle in 1989, is a mainstay of the commercial flooring...
Caterham Carpets: Who dares wins
PART TWO Neil Hammond, md of Caterham Carpets, shares how he coped with wanderlust, marriage,...
Caterham Carpets: Who dares wins
PART ONE: Neil Hammond, managing director of Caterham Carpets, has a cracking story to tell....
Renovation process was ‘plain sailing’ at flooded yacht club
In this issue of CFJ, we speak to the floorlayers involved with the installation at...
Still going strong
PART three Glen Cartwright (Next Level Flooring and Bona certified contractor) has, over 43 years,managed...
Glen Cartwright – going strong since 1981
PART two Glen Cartwright has, over 43 years, managed to create a business with a...
Glen Cartwright – going strong since 1981
PART ONE: Forty-three years is a long time. But as we’ll see over the next...
Being a family business is our USP
AJAX Flooring Company, founded in 1956 by a returning member of the navy, is a...
Passionate Aizlewoods says it offers first-class service
Alan Aizlewood and Keith Nicholson established the company in 1967. Originally called Aizlewood & Nicholson,...
The long climb to the top
CFJ interviews Dave Wilson about how he established himself in the flooring industry and founded...
The future is coming up roses
In the final of a three-part profile, Gary Bricknell, owner of the Northamptonshire-based Mosaic Restoration...
‘Companies failwhen they treatpeople badly’
FORMER Londoner, Gary Bricknell runs the now 25-year-old Mosaic Restoration Company. It’s very distinct, almost...
Piecing a future together
In the first of a three-part profile, Gary Bricknell, owner of the Northamptonshire-based Mosaic Restoration...
Välinge: Simon Darbyshire, md, introduces Bjelin
By Ed Birch
‘We have spent a very busy and rewarding 12 months rolling out the...
MacGregor Flooring: We’re at the top of the food chain but we can’t be complacent
Why the managing director of MacGregor Flooring believes that despite the challenges facing the industry,...
Flooring by design
In this second part of two reports, CFJ speaks to Darren Hope, director of Bolton-based...
Running a Bentley in the countryside for success
Priory Hardwoods came about by sheer accident as its managing director Tom Bentley explains in...
Camox: 21 months later and streamlining for success
In September 2021, CFJ profiled Dale Osborne of Camox Floors. We contacted himagain recently to...
Gary Anthony: Dealing with spivs, bombs, and cancer
Gary Anthony is managing director of Nottinghamshire-based Willowbank Contracts, and like many in the trade,...
Peal-ling back the layers
Tim Peal of Essex-based Millside Floors has spent more than 30 years in flooring. Now,...
Toncam: The power of many
CFJ talks to Glen Tonkin whose father, Ian, founded Kingussie-based Toncam in 1996. Glen is...
Rinable carpets: Running in the family
How familial bonds have helped drive the success of a Luton-based carpet and flooring contractor...
A diamond career in flooring
Six decades in flooring and working for clients such as Whitbread, Olympia, Earls Court Stadium,...
Shire flooring: counting their lucky stars
A young, fiercely driven Derbyshire-based flooring contractor has its sights set on national domination. That...
Big steps the Oakvale Flooring way
Oakvale Flooring specialises in sourcing, suppling, and finishing all types of timber flooring, and splits...
Father & sons: A Lincolnshire flooring story
Graham Jefferson tells CFJ about the journey his business, Lincolnshire Flooring, has been on since...
All hail Piper Hales!
Rob Scott, managing director of London-based commercial flooring specialist, Piper Hales Flooring takes CFJ through...
The Hart and soul of a fitter
Carl Hart of Birmingham-based City Carpets & Flooring talks to CFJ about how his business...
Business done the Hard(ing) way
G Harding Flooring’s owner says his company is run according to a very design-led ethos....
Bill McCallum plays a beautiful game
Bill McCallum, director and owner of Contract Flooring Services (London), runs a business perfectly at...
Wood flooring is in the blood
Alin Cristescu, involved in wood-based products for three generations, founded London-based Fin Wood after he...
Wood works
Alin Cristescu, founder of London-based Fin Wood, and whose family has been in the wood...
Starling – A bird in the hand?
There was a reason Alin Cristescu, director of Fin Wood, a flooring contractor based in...
The business end of things
As seems to happen so much in the world of flooring, those that enter the...
Winton Flooring: A lesson in evolution
CFJ talks to John Marsh, commercial director of family-owned contractor, Manchester-based Winton Flooring. Part of...
The art of flooring
CFJ speaks to Sam Wilson, general manager of Cambridge-based Art of Flooring, about how the...
RUN DMC
CFJ talks to David McCartney, ceo at DMC, about the journey from apprentice in the...