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Q1


apprentice floor layer for a company that my father owned in partnership with another guy. I was only there for a few months before they went their separate ways and then we started CMC Flooring in 1992.


Q2 Q3


How did you get into the flooring industry?


It was through my father when I was 17 and studying A-levels, in college I worked for him casually in the holidays ripping up floors. I liked the money so left college to become a floor layer.


What do you think are the positives and


negatives of the flooring trade? It’s a very satisfying job at times as you get to see the end product and the difference that new flooring makes to a building. It also takes you to all sorts of different places that you wouldn’t normally have access to.


However, working on flooring can also be very stressful because we are a finishing trade and we go on to the job right at the end of construction programmes. When other trades have been delayed it only compresses the amount of time available for us to do our work usually leading to a great deal of out-of-hours working to get the job finished on time.


Q4 Q5


If you could hire any one person to be part of your


team, who would it be and why? Any ex-Prime Minister as they would be able to open doors to new customers.


What’s the best advice you could


give to someone new coming


into the industry? Work hard and listen to those with more experience. Be patient, the skills to do the job will come in time. Coupled with the hard work you can have an interesting, well-paid rewarding job.


56 | 10 QUESTIONS


10 QUESTIONS WITH… Q6


Each month we ask a flooring industry professional 10 Questions.


This month, we chatted to Philip McIntosh, Managing Director of CMC Flooring and The National Flooring Centre.


What was your first job? My first job was as an


If you could invent any product what


would it be and why? The internet, has there been anything else more revolutionary?


Q7 Q8


If you could have a dinner party with any


three people, dead or alive,


who would they be and why? I’d invite Winston Churchill because he’s one of the most important people in our history. Jürgen Klopp because you always need to talk football and Michelangelo so he could paint the ceiling.


What do you think the future holds for


the flooring industry? I think the future is positive. Every building will always need a floorcovering and with the population increasing the way it is the flooring industry has to follow.


There's also been a move in the retail sector to buying online and that’s why we have set up another company The National Flooring Centre which is a retail only website supplying flooring nationwide.


Q9


What would you like to see in a future issue of


Tomorrow’s Contract Floors? I think an article about how a national reform for speedy payment would help the flooring industry.


Q10


Cameron Fraser, Commercial Director


of Ceramique Internationale Ltd asked: If you weren’t doing what you are doing now, what would


you like to be? I’d be a stockbroker for the excitement of trading huge amounts of money, plus the bonuses aren’t too bad either.


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