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CFJ AWARDS 2026

Flooring in hotels

Innovative adhesive developments transforming flooring installations

Mapei named among world’s best employers in Forbes rankings

The power of the PDF for sharing and lead generation

A good system shortens the road to your goal

Get F. Ball’s free RAG app

ForceDry | Underfloor heating versus traditional radiators

Get a grip on luxury, says Floorwise

‘Winter warmth and cooling comfort’, courtesy of Snickers

Vibrant transformation: Custom carpet tile design in London blends bold aesthetics with functional elegance

DYNAMIK supplies gym flooring products direct to trade

A flooring contractor’s marketing selection box for Christmas

The gold standard: FITA and WEBS continue thejourney for apprenticeship excellence

Signature Style with Moduleo Moods

Welsh wonder for Brynteg School with Gerflor’s Taraflex® sports surfaces

‘The world’s first Work Trousers with built-in, certified kneepads’

CFA Flooring Apprentice of the Year 2026: Meet the finalists

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F Ball & Co’s Styccobond F40 drys to form a transparent, permanently tacky coating

F Ball products support BBC’s DIY SOS

‘Water is no match for this wood’

Mapei System enables fast and safe floor installation at Sunningdale SEN School

Expert tips for installing carpet tiles over raised access flooring in commercial spaces

TradeChoice Carpet & Flooring

‘Create Immersive experiences with a world-first’

Maintaining porcelain patios: Understanding the difference between barrier treatments and sealers

Do I need to check the subfloor?

Karndean Commercial to champion inclusive design at Clerkenwell Design Week 2025

Digital D-day

KERAKOLL GROUP: Martina Colombara appointed Group Chief People Officer

Luxury Vinyl Flooring From the Belgian Master

Designer Contracts’ digital world

‘From family start up to global flooring brand’

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Decent flooring will always prevail, come hell or high water

Junckers at CDW 2023

‘Stick with confidence’ with UltraFloor Stick IT 543

‘The timeless elegance of Mayfair’

How the UK’s first carpet recycling facility is changing the future of carpets

CFA seeks support for guidance document on Installation of Laminate Flooring

Polished to perform

Envira Floors stays ahead of the curve in Nottingham office

Students build bright future thanks to successful new scheme

‘Inspirational’ floors with BerryAlloc displays

Designing for the future – the opportunity of hardened wood flooring

Improving and supporting apprenticeship experiences

F BALL introduces Stopgap 300: Heavy-duty smoothing compound ideal for high-traffic healthcare settings

Looking after limestone: a practical guide to cleaning and maintenance in the home

Llwynhendy Care Home turns to Iperform 70

A dog’s breakfast

‘How our smart adhesives drive innovation, sustainabilityand faster flooring installations’

Introducing the 2023 CFA Members’ Handbook in an unpredictable market

FROM THE FLOOR TO THE OCHE: FORBO AND TRADECHOICE CARPET AND FLOORING INVITE YOU TO WIN PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS TICKETS

Don’t shoot the messenger

Build a career for life with the academy

Underlays for wood and laminate flooring offering noise reducing performance

Walnut is woeful and pitch pine is pitiful

‘Make more of walls with BerryAlloc’

Personal development is vital

Adhesives for vertical flooring accessories

ProKnee Kneepad ‘can be rebuilt with replacement parts’

And then there was light…

LVT pioneer, EarthWerks has been offering luxury vinyl flooring for almost four decades

BerryAlloc to exhibit at KBB Birmingham

Our ‘Project’ Range

IDS offers ‘versatile flooring solutions for every project and budget’

‘A new chapter in student living’ with Forbo Flooring

Verona’s new ClickLux Herringbone SPC collection provides ‘a functional alternative’

Safe, acoustic and stylish school floors with IVC Commercial vinyl

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Paul Robson joins Interfloor to lead its new acoustics division

Eco-Friendly Mapei System used to complete sustainable floor installation at secondary school in Northwest London

Forbo Flooring Systems has partnered with the Dementia Services Development Centre

BAL is excited to announce the launch of its new-look small powders

EGGER Group closes financial year with €4.13bn turnover in challenging times

F Ball’s new Stopgap 1400 smoothing compound streamlines vinyl flooring installation at Schoolblazer HQ

IVC Commercial launches Immersion products using carbon-negative Thrive matter

Smoothing subfloors before applying a waterproof surface membrane

TVS RESi Concrete Floating Floor System

Anglo Recycling represents low tech, low energy underlays

Outstanding stability and strength partnered with stylish, contemporary design

Norcros Pro 50 Levelling Compound is an ideal leveller for creating a surface for tiling

Chaunceys Timber Flooring to celebrate opening of new showroom

LeoLine ‘gets a lift with new ranges’

IDS expands flooring portfolio with ‘premium spec LION Floor Fabricated Engineered Underlay’

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Westbury Carpets & Floor Coverings use UltraFloor’s Level IT Pro30

Get it right first-time round – how to ensure your bathroom installation runs smoothly

BerryAlloc runs open house studio for HIX at Business Design Centre

When painting takes the floor

Missing an important point?

A hard rain is coming

Designer Contracts and supplier take top industry sustainability award

Kerakoll relaunches its hydraulic binder for screeds and heat-radiant slabs

Founded in 1860, Campari has a rich history of producing premium Italian bitter liqueur with a striking red colour.

CAT Design Home Collection

DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR 2023 set to bring together flooring professionals from all over the world in the Asian market

Beauflor launches new website

F Ball and Co to exhibit at Cruise Ships Interiors Expo in Miami

The long climb to the top

Forbo’s Marmoleum Cocoa collection: Climate positive & sustainable flooring

‘Make the natural choice’ with Granorte cork flooring

Louis de Poortere extends Mix & Match runners

Is Labour working for flooring?

Temperature and humidity measuring device to prove cause of wood floor failure

‘The right herringbone look whatever the setting’

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How the Ukraine crisis will affect timber imports

Abingdon Flooring at The Flooring Show (Stand A25 / A5)

The Superman of Flooring

Try something new!

The case for carpet tiles

Latest Lockdown Restrictions – Commercial Flooring to Continue

Kelmore promotes Andy Moss to operations director

Forbo Flooring helps transform Edinburgh’s student accommodation with sophisticated designs

Design for neurodiversity: driving change for the better

Looking ‘Intoo’ Moduleo’s latest vinyl floor

Demo Zones at the Flooring Show

Adhesive selection for PVC floorcoverings

Family firm stands proud despite dark economic clouds

Pattern makes perfect: Milliken’s art of reuse

F Ball and Co at Cruise Ship Interiors Expo Europe

‘Rely on us to make your job easier’

Likewise completes £14m fundraise, with directors acquiring 800,000 shares

Know the risks

Moduleo celebrates 10th anniversary in the UK

Forbo creates ‘stylish and sustainable’ office space

Visitor registration for DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR 2025 is now open

Shining the spotlight on calcium sulphates

‘Get Ready for Any Floor with floorwise FloorPly’

Mapei’s range of ‘high performance’ adhesives for all types of floorcoverings

Summertime Blues

Cemfloor’s ‘exceptional thermal conductivity’ gives a lesson at Springmoor Grange School

Payment practices – an update

F Ball & Co supports refurbishment of Plymouth College of Art with high-performance flooring solutions

ProKnee Rubber Boots ‘withstand toughest jobsites’

F Ball and Co Stopgap 1500 AquaPro fast-track, water-mix smoothing underlayment

EXCLUSIVE How simple errors nearly led to undoing of midlands flooring contractor

Floorwise says its rewards are back, ‘better than ever’

Floorwise’s F599 and F597 Heavy Duty spray adhesives set the gold standard

Junckers | Breathe it in

Long Life Laminate Floors for Housing

Stretch shorts for street-smart comfort this summer

Built to take the hits

Proper surface preparation is key for a successful installation

The CFA Flooring Apprentice of the Year competition 2026 – enter now!

Altro visit Ashe Construction site at Bedford Academy

Headlam app

Headlam Group launches ‘industry-leading app’

Parador: Flooring you can count on

Scotland Race Day – Wednesday 18 June 2025

Floor preparation in newbuild projects

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Antimicrobial power beneath your feet

Gerflor GTI Max range

‘It’s a Scouts Honour’ for UltraFloor at Welsh hall

Contemporary Bar, Munich, Germany

The role of training

Award-winning design by Louis de Poortere

EXCLUSIVE: STRIPPERS FLOORING FOUNDER ANDREW BISS BARES ALL

Become a Master of Moduleo at Academy for Excellence in Flooring

LKAB Minerals is leading the way towards a more sustainable future

58% of construction workers believe listening to music while working improves motivation and mental health

Walking the green path: Sustainability in vinyl flooring with Recofloor

CFJ Awards judge Fiona Bowman reveals rich connection to flooring history

Want to know everything about training in the industry? You’ve arrived at the right place!

Milliken’s LVT and modular carpet floorcovering products

Why an end-user wasn’t too happy with his flooring installation

Wood by design

‘Meet the FASTEST member of the ARDEX family’

F Ball and Co used in the Middle East and Africa’s principal healthcare and research centre

Junckers launches buy back scheme for sustainable flooring

Reflection on renewals

Loughton Contracts working towards becoming carbon neutral

The virtues of virtual training

MAPEI’s Ultrabond ECO MS1 Adhesive now available in convenient 7kg size

HUSQVARNA INTRODUCES NEW RANGE OF LARGE FLOOR GRINDERS

Two new managers for key roles at Kerakoll

Endless possibilities with thePlusfloor Vero collection

David Hibbert cuts short retirement to join Unifloor

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Of prime importance

Remote but still in touch

Forbo’s Marmoleum ‘achieves climate-positive status’

The COBA Group Acquires C.A.T. (Carpet Accessory Trims Ltd)

Forbo extends its sustainable Evolve+ carpet tile series with Tessera Twine

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Newhey Carpets is proud to design and manufacture carpets for Royal Birkdale Golf Club

British Standards to the fore

Measuring competence in floorlaying – how far do we go?

LeoLine website ‘makesit easy to find a floor as unique as you are’

Laying the floor – that’s the easy bit!

When a new carpet goes wrong

Next generation transport floors win award

Providing ‘innovative’ sampling solutions

Tover at The Flooring Show (Stand B10)

Combi-bac® – the future of carpet backing!

CTD Tiles continues to serve architects and housebuilders

Have trends become outdated?

Flooring: it’s all about preparation

AIM Barriers ‘address raised access floor fire safety concerns’

UltraFloor: Build your screed with speed

‘Eco pouches’ for repair and floor finishing compounds

Visitor registration platform for DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR 2023 is now open

The Hart and soul of a fitter

Gower College Swansea launches new floorcovering apprenticeship to address skills shortage in the industry

Flowing Screeds Association advocates for training to improve industry standards

Properly preparing the subfloor

MAPEI’s Ultracoat range: Water-based floor finishes for wood flooring protection

The importance of practical aesthetics in education flooring

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