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The festival feeling

In a range of on-trend neutral tones and with a lifetime Stainfree promise, Festival is a deep pile pile carpet that brings a practical floor to the home. In colours such as oyster, white smoke, glacier grey, almond and witch hazel; Festival is the perfect backdrop to bold and colourful home accessories and soft furnishings, with its 18mm pile adding a sense of luxury and comfort.

Adding another option to the Stainfree family, Festival’s 1/8th gauge quality gives a pronounced pile and uses the latest generation of Stainfree yarn which improves softness without sacrificing stainresistance, cleanability or resilience. The carpet also features Abingdon Flooring’s Fleece Backing that gives extra comfort and makes installation easier. Helping to reduce the cost of underlay, it makes Festival an affordable, heavyweight option in deep pile bleach-cleanable carpet.

Charlotte Coop, marketing manager, Abingdon Flooring, says; “The Stainfree family is a popular choice for UK homeowners thanks to its combination of affordability, practicality and style. In fact, for many homes it’s all the carpet they need. The launch of Festival makes sure that Stainfree keeps ticking the boxes by delivering even more choice and a luxurious deep pile carpet that’s perfect for family life.”

Festival is made in Britain and is available in 2.5m, 4m and 5m widths to bring the best possible value in any room. It is rated suitable for heavy domestic use and with a 10-year wear warranty.

T 01274 655 694 www.abingdonflooring.co.uk

Trident triumphs on choice

Rita Bancroft looks at innovative trends in tile design and versatility of vinyl flooring pages 38-39

POS positivity

Manufacturers and suppliers are keen to earn their place on your sales floor pages 41-44

Enhancing installations with stylish trims and tooks pages 46-47

Furlong Flooring, a market leader for hard-wearing twist carpets, has relaunched its best-selling Trident range with improved, industry-leading class 33 specification, and comes in 24 colours to deliver on current home décor trends. The launch forms part of their ongoing commitment to increasing consumer choice.

New Trident is available in neutral tones to complement existing home décor or make a statement with an added splash of colour. Relaunched with improved specification, New Trident is designed to be suitable for busy domestic and commercial settings, providing you with the perfect carpet, no matter the space.

Not only have Furlong Flooring focused on creating visually appealing carpets, but they have also maintained functionality, by ensuring the new range is easy to fit. The carpets have been manufactured using their innovative, award-winning Combi-bac, which provides a flexible but strong alternative to other carpet backings on the market. Furlong Flooring has also enhanced the stain-resistant, easy-care qualities of the carpet. The range has a heavy commercial classification – the perfect choice for high-traffic domestic and commercial settings. The entire range is made in the UK, meaning stock levels will always remain high and reliable. Furlong Flooring is confident in the quality of the new range and offers an industry-leading warranty of 10 years with the products.

The new Trident collection gives customers even more choices of affordable, high-quality flooring options. Ian Collacott, Sales Director at Furlong Flooring said:

T 01322 628 700 www.furlongflooring.com

The safer way to spray

The healthier and safer way to spray; floorwise F597 Heavy Duty Spray Adhesive is the 100% dichloromethane (DCM) free answer to a range of on-site fixing challenges.

Receiving high praise from installers for its ability to stick better than most ‘normal’ sprays, floorwise F597 Heavy Duty Spray Adhesive has been developed by floorwise as a healthier alternative to ‘conventional’ heavy duty spray adhesives with no performance compromise. The high adhesive content and web spray pattern ensures a great delivery and reliable hold ideal for those quick on-site fixes. floorwise F597 is a great solution that can handle a range of sticky problems while being safer and healthier to use than conventional DCM based spray adhesives.

Removing the hazards associated with many spray adhesives of being potentially carcinogenic and harmful to the environment, the solvent used in floorwise F597 Heavy Duty Spray Adhesive is lighter than air and will quickly disperse into the atmosphere. This is in marked contrast to the layer of invisible, odourless gas left at ground level by DCM-based spray adhesives, which has been proven to create a significant risk of asphyxiation for installers working on their knees in poorly ventilated spaces.

Andrew Gill, group product manager, floorwise, says: “We developed floorwise F597 as the safer and healthier alternative to heavy duty spray adhesives and the response it has received has been nothing short of extraordinary. Sales have boomed and it’s clear that fitters are appreciating the winning combination of no compromise formulation and health benefits of floorwise F597 without a significant cost penalty.”

Even better, floorwise F597 Heavy Duty Spray Adhesive is also included in flooring’s biggest rewards promotion. With four points on a box of 12 cans, you can spray and save towards more than 60 tech and lifestyle rewards.

Look out for the green floorwise F597 cans at floorwise distributors across the UK and Ireland. With only one hazard warning on the can, floorwise F597 Heavy Duty Spray Adhesive is a fantastic way to start 2023 with a healthier and safer way to work.

No wonder that fantastic floors start with floorwise.

T 01509 673974 www.floorwise.co.uk

FITA provides short training courses, workshops and assessments for both commercial and domestic markets. Both our fully equipped training centres at Loughborough and Kirkcaldy are run by seasoned professional instructors with specialist knowledge of the flooring industry.

Karndean expands in Europe

A global leader in luxury vinyl tile, Karndean International Limited, is expanding its footprint in mainland Europe following the acquisition of mFLOR International B.V (MIBV), also a supplier of luxury vinyl tile in the European market, for an undisclosed sum.

The mFLOR brand is well respected in Europe, especially the Netherlands where the business is headquartered in Twello (pictured below) . With this acquisition, Karndean has substantially increased its reach in Europe as part of its strategy for growth in key markets.

Levelling up in luxury

F. Ball and Co. Ltd.’s Stopgap 1200 Pro levelling compound and F46 pressure sensitive acrylic adhesive have led the way in refurbishing floors at Heythrop Park, near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire as part of a £40 million renovation.

Carter’s Flooring were commissioned to install a range of high-spec floorcoverings throughout more than 6,000m2 of site’s public areas, including in the 300-year-old, Grade II-listed manor house.

Stopgap 1200 Pro high-performance levelling compound was used to raise subfloor levels so that LVT floorcoverings and inlaid carpet would sit perfectly flush with previously installed ceramic tiles. Stopgap Micro Rapid fast-setting, fast-drying floor finishing compound was used to address minor subfloor imperfections.

mFLOR will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Karndean International Limited, sitting alongside its existing sister company Designflooring International GmbH.

Paul Barratt, managing director for Karndean Designflooring said, “This is exciting news as we welcome mFLOR to the Karndean International family. This is a strategic acquisition of a strong brand in a territory we have wanted to increase our reach in for many years. mFLOR are highly respected and operate in a segment of the market we haven’t historically focused. I am very much looking forward to working with Eef and the rest of the mFLOR team to continue to grow the brand.”

One of the three shareholders of MIBV, Eef Van Leusden will remain as general manager running the business as he has for the last 25 years. Reflecting on the acquisition Eef Van Leusden, general manager of MIBV, said “It has been a long road, and for us, the shareholders of MIBV, it has always been very important that the continuity of the company, our own people and customers is guaranteed. With this acquisition, I believe that, in collaboration with Paul and Karndean Designflooring, we have achieved this.” www.karndean.com www.mflor.com

Contractors installed bespoke Brintons carpet in an inset seating area on one side of the reception and in front of the entrances to the larger of the hotel’s two ground-floor theatres and Late Lounge Bar, using a dual bond system. with F. Ball’s Styccobond F3 to create a permanent bond between carpet and underlay, with the company’s Styccobond F40 providing a peelable bond between the underlay and subfloor.

In the main theatre, where guests can enjoy live music, drama and comedy performances, Carter’s used Stopgap 1200 Pro to patch repair existing subfloors, including where stanchions had been removed, before installing 600m2 of custom-made dark black and blue Newhay carpet. Stopgap 1200 Pro was also used to create a perfectly smooth surface throughout the back of house areas ahead of the installation of Altro Stronghold 30 safety flooring.

T 01538 361 633 www.f-ball.co.uk