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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Floor covering installers perform some or all of the following duties:

• • Inspect, measure and mark surfaces to be covered
  • Measure, cut and fasten underlay and underpadding
  • Measure, cut and install carpeting using hand or machine stitcher, seaming iron, bonding tape or other bonding materials
  • Stretch carpeting using knee-kicker or power stretcher and secure carpeting to floor or other surfaces using staple gun or other devices
  • Measure, cut and install resilient floor covering using adhesive, rollers and other hand tools
  • Install hardwood floors, such as strip floors, block floors or plank floors, using glue, staples, nails or other means
  • Inspect and repair damaged floor coverings
  • May estimate material and labour costs.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a two- to three-year apprenticeship program or Over four years of work experience in the trade and some courses in floor covering installation are usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
• Trade certification is compulsory in Quebec and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
• Trade certification for hardwood floor layers is available, but voluntary, in British Columbia.
• Interprovincial trade certification (Red Seal) is also available to qualified floor covering installers.

• Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
• Red Seal trade certification allows for interprovincial mobility.

• Supervisors of floor covering installers (in 7219 Contractors and Supervisors, Other Construction Trades, Installers, Repairers and Servicers)