Floor Covering Installer

**Work site environment**:

- Odours
- Dusty

**Work setting**:

- Commercial
- Residential
- Various locations

**Tasks**:

- Inspect, measure and mark surfaces to be covered
- Measure, cut and fasten underlay and underpadding
- Measure, cut and install carpeting on floors
- Measure, cut and install resilient floor coverings
- Prepare and install hardwood floors
- Inspect and repair damaged floor coverings
- Conduct moisture, ph, temperature and other tests prior to flooring installations
- Prepare floors for installations
- Remove existing floor coverings and contaminants
- Install carpeting on walls or other surfaces
- Perform direct glue-down carpet installations
- Perform double-bond carpet installations
- Install resilient stair components (special effects for the visually impaired)
- Pave and rake asphalt
- Shovel cement and other materials into cement mixers, spread concrete and asphalt on road surfaces using shovels, rakes and hand tampers

**Type of product**:

- Asphalt or concrete finishes

**Area of work experience**:

- Asphalt finishing

**Area of specialization**:

- Flooring

**Installation specialization**:

- Vinyl or resilient tiles
- Vinyl or resilient sheets
- Ceramic tiles
- Hardwood strip flooring
- Hardwood intricate patterns flooring
- Linoleum
- Asphalt plank flooring
- Carpets/rugs

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
- Willing to travel

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Hand-eye co-ordination

**Own tools/equipment**:

- Tools
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Gloves
- Mask

**Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player