So, now that you’ve got your brand new sports floor, how do you get it from
the box and into the space where you need it? Installation makes all the difference in how a floor appears. It may work perfectly well, but you’ll have a hard time impressing that on a prospective member if the floor has not been installed with care, or is starting to gap due to bad installation procedures.
Yes, in every case, you can have your personnel install our floors. We’ll be happy to send you installation instructions and, if they are followed to the letter, will make for a good looking installation. We’ve put a lot of time into these installation instructions and tried to think of every particular situation, using our knowledge of hundreds of installations, so please don’t just think that you know what you’re doing and dive right in without ever consulting the instructions until it is too late. In fact, I’d encourage you to read all of the installation instructions BEFORE you install the floor. We intentionally make them as brief as we possibly can for just that reason and they will give you a rough idea of what you might encounter before you get there.
If you have questions, please give us a call. Everyone here has been involved with the installation of at least a few floors, so they know the answers to your questions – even the unusual ones.
One tip I can give you is to not try to get too much done in a day. The details, especially when you are finishing the installation, are what make the difference between a good looking installation and a bad one. If your folks are getting tired, they’ll start making sloppy mistakes, or not caring as much about the appearance of the installation as much as they did when you started. And, just when it looks like your floor is done, that’s when you have to look at the finishing touches like clean-up and baseboards and transitions that make all the difference.
Finally, if your folks get into the installation and find that it is beyond their scope of expertise, or if the floor is not looking the way that you think it should, tell them to stop working. We have installers around the country and they will be more than happy to finish the job for you.