Flooring retailers

Flooring retailers are directly impacted by the shortage of installers. Be part of the solution.

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Retailers Hiring Installers

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Minimum Expected Growth with More Installers

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Retailer Support

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Retailers That Hire Installers as Employees

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Will you step up?

Engagement and activity at the local level are critical components to solving the installer shortage. If you’re ready to stop worrying about the installer shortage and start doing something about it, FCEF is here to help.

Be a local FCEF Champion

We need you to help us spread the message and coordinate programs in your area. You benefit directly from bringing training and awareness to your community.

LOCAL ACTIVATION:

Your donation and support will bring professional training to your local market. FCEF provides guidance and all the recruitment tools for you to successfully find and train new recruits. You can also team up with other businesses in your region to be champions together.

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS:

We’ve created a curriculum and framework for launching a program at a technical school. Now we need you to open doors in your community.

COMMUNITY AWARENESS:

Flooring trades are not widely thought of, even by those looking for a trade career. Help us change that by talking to groups in your area – students, teachers, parents, and local leaders.

Donate & GET STarted

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Financial support helps us continue to grow programs that recruit, scholarship, and train tomorrow’s flooring craftsmen. Your donation helps fund scholarships, awareness campaigns, and general operations.

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Help us share our message and make more people aware of the opportunities as a flooring craftsman. Follow us on social media, sign up for emails, and learn more so you can spread awareness in your community.

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We are stepping up…are you?

We need to educate, train and support new recruits.
In order for our industry to grow. we need to educate, train and support new recruits. If we can take the time to show recruits how to be successful from the very beginning, there will be more value in our industry. It's we set the standard for our craft!
Crystal Sims
Preferred Flooring
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In order for our industry to grow. we need to educate, train and support new recruits. If we can take the time to show recruits how to be successful from the very beginning, there will be more value in our industry. It's we set the standard for our craft!
We need to educate, train and support new recruits.
Crystal Sims
Preferred Flooring
The flooring industry changed my life.
The flooring industry not only changed my life, it also allowed me to be able to change a few of my family members’ lives. I learned how to fish so I’ll never go hungry and now I teach others how to fish so they will never go hungry.
Marquis Wright
Mr. Wright Flooring
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The flooring industry not only changed my life, it also allowed me to be able to change a few of my family members’ lives. I learned how to fish so I’ll never go hungry and now I teach others how to fish so they will never go hungry.
The flooring industry changed my life.
Marquis Wright
Mr. Wright Flooring
They'll enjoy my work for years to come.
A career in the flooring industry is a fantastic way to make a difference. It gives me the rewards of providing my artistry to others, knowing they will enjoy my work for years to come. It allows me to meet people, go places and travel.
Ken Ballin
Skyro Floors
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A career in the flooring industry is a fantastic way to make a difference. It gives me the rewards of providing my artistry to others, knowing they will enjoy my work for years to come. It allows me to meet people, go places and travel.
They'll enjoy my work for years to come.
Ken Ballin
Skyro Floors
Our Industry Needs Young People
We have an obligation in order to keep our industry viable to help find ways to really bring young people into our industry and let them see that this is a fantastic opportunity for themselves and for their families. And you can support what we are trying to do here at the FCEF in many different ways.
Piet Dossche
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We have an obligation in order to keep our industry viable to help find ways to really bring young people into our industry and let them see that this is a fantastic opportunity for themselves and for their families. And you can support what we are trying to do here at the FCEF in many different ways.
Our Industry Needs Young People
Piet Dossche
We Can Do More Together
The National Wood Flooring Association stands with FCEF. We can do more together than we can do separately. It's a way for the whole industry to step up and say education matters.
Michael Martin
National Wood Flooring Association
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The National Wood Flooring Association stands with FCEF. We can do more together than we can do separately. It's a way for the whole industry to step up and say education matters.
We Can Do More Together
Michael Martin
National Wood Flooring Association
Thanks to the FCEF for taking on the most important job in the business —raising up the next generation of floor covering installers. Because of you, our products will be in good hands!
Paul Murfin
Taylor Adhesives
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Thanks to the FCEF for taking on the most important job in the business—raising up the next generation of floor covering installers. Because of you, our products will be in good hands!
Paul Murfin
Taylor Adhesives
All facets of our industry will benefit from the training of our next generation of installers.
Supporting FCEF can be as simple as a once-a-month automatic deduction. All facets of our industry, especially retailers, will benefit from the training of our next generation of installers. Help us to keep this moving forward and solve our industry's problem.
Deb DeGraaf
DeGraaf Interiors
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Supporting FCEF can be as simple as a once-a-month automatic deduction. All facets of our industry, especially retailers, will benefit from the training of our next generation of installers. Help us to keep this moving forward and solve our industry's problem.
All facets of our industry will benefit from the training of our next generation of installers.
Deb DeGraaf
DeGraaf Interiors
The installation crisis is real.
The installation crisis is real. We're trying to get in front of it before it becomes a much bigger issue. Please support FCEF.
Geoff Gordon
FUSE Alliance
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The installation crisis is real. We're trying to get in front of it before it becomes a much bigger issue. Please support FCEF.
The installation crisis is real.
Geoff Gordon
FUSE Alliance
Without installation, we can't sell the first square foot of goods.
Without installation, we can't sell the first square foot of goods. We've got to make people aware of the opportunities in the flooring industry.
Steve Abernathy
WFCA
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Without installation, we can't sell the first square foot of goods. We've got to make people aware of the opportunities in the flooring industry.
Without installation, we can't sell the first square foot of goods.
Steve Abernathy
WFCA
Dealers this is not just a manufacturer problem to fix!
Dealers this is not just a manufacturer problem to fix! STEP UP and do your part! This has been an industry problem for years and everyone waited for someone else to fix this. Well, someone else is everyone that benefits from the flooring industry in any way.
Don Roberts
Central Alabama Flooring
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Dealers this is not just a manufacturer problem to fix! STEP UP and do your part! This has been an industry problem for years and everyone waited for someone else to fix this. Well, someone else is everyone that benefits from the flooring industry in any way.
Dealers this is not just a manufacturer problem to fix!
Don Roberts
Central Alabama Flooring