10 QUESTIONS
10 QUESTIONS WITH… DEAN FEATHERBY
Each month we ask a flooring industry professional the Tomorrow’s Flooring 10 Questions. This month, we chatted to Dean Featherby, Managing Director of Featherby Flooring Limited.
Q5
If you won the lottery, what would be the first
thing you’d buy? A lottery win would encourage me to expand the company and then maybe see some of the world.
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Q1 Q2
What was your first job? After I left college my first job
was a graphic designer.
How did you get into the flooring industry?
I applied for the first job that I saw on the job centre notice board. The role was carpet warehouse assistant and I was hoping that it would just be temporary, until I found another graphics position.
Q3
What do you think are the positives and negatives of the
flooring industry? It sounds like a bit of a cliché, but the most positive aspect is that I get to meet new people regularly. A negative, for me, is trying to win a tender to install products correctly and not just be the cheapest.
Q4 54
If you could hire any one person to be part of your
team, who would it be and why? I ‘m hoping one day my son, Billy, will be joining our ever expanding team, that is the dream! Having a Father and Son business is something I often see and highly admire.
Q8 Q9
Where would you like to be a fly on the wall?
To be a fly on the wall in Buckingham Palace would be a real eye-opener, I'm sure.
What would you like to see in a future issue of
Tomorrow’s Flooring? I’d like to see more literature and education on installing LEDs within the flooring, especially soft coverings. Flooring combining lighting
If you could have any super power, what would it be
and why? Isn’t it every man’s fascination to be able to fly?
If you could be one person for a day, who would it be and why?
I’d love to live in Simon Cowell's shoes for a day, experiencing his rewards for his success would be fun!
will, in my opinion, be massive in the near future once it becomes commercially affordable.
Q10
Matt Bourne, Managing Director of Floorskills Ltd.
asked: If you were a long distance swimmer, where would you swim to and why? That’s an odd question. I’d swim the width of Lake Malawi. It’s the ninth biggest lake in the world and is between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. A colleague has swum it several times and counts it as one of his best moments ever.
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Check out next month’s issue to see what Dean asked our next industry professional…
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