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FEIN HELPS NEXT GENERATION OF
FLOOR LAYERS FEIN has partnered with FloorSkills training centre, one of the leading fully funded Flooring Apprenticeship and NVQ providers in the country, to supply
high quality power tools that are now helping apprentices and current flooring professionals achieve new qualifications.
Donating multiple new MultiMasters to the training centre, FEIN has enabled the flooring apprentices to begin their training with the best tools for the job. FEIN’s new Multimaster 350 Q is particularly useful to the flooring trade,
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able to cut architrave and sand corners of wooden flooring with ease thanks to its powerful 350 W motor and increased amplitude of 2 x 1.7 degrees.
Daniel Fairhust, Training Manager at FloorSkills, commented: “We pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality training and having quality tools to work with is paramount in achieving our goals. We want our apprentices to experience the best not because it’s nice to have but because it genuinely improves their learning. Having a MultiMaster is such an important piece of kit for a floor fitter and it’s important for our apprentices to familiarise themselves with one before they go on the job.”
Daniel continued: “We’ve had great feedback from our apprentices, who all love using the new tools. The MultiMasters have been so easy to work and teach with and are a welcome addition to the workshops.”
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GUIDANCE ON RE-USING AND RECYCLING USED
CARPET Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK) has published a practical interactive guide to encourage more re-use and recycling of used carpet arising from all types of refurbishment schemes. Best practices for extending carpet lifetime and for refurbishment specification are also highlighted in the user-friendly document.
Carpet Recycling UK was commissioned by WRAP, the UK’s resource efficiency experts, to write the report, entitled Guidance on Re-use and Recycling of Used Carpets and Environmental Considerations for Specifying New
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of carpet waste that is most likely to arise in refurbishment projects.
Floor finishes are a significant element of a building and contribute around 12% towards a building’s environmental impact. Carpet, including tiles and broadloom, is the predominant floor covering used in both domestic and commercial settings, accounting for 58% of the UK’s floor finishing market.
Carpet, which can be downloaded from the WRAP website here.
The guide is aimed at facilities managers in the public and private sectors, procurers, architects and specifiers, housing associations and floor layers to assist them with the type
The guide explains how to prepare used carpets for re-use and recycling and showcases best practice for selecting new carpet. Information is also provided on how to deal with post-consumer carpets. It also highlights considerations for specifying new flooring which will increase the product’s lifetime on the floor and further reduce its overall environmental impact.
www.carpetrecyclinguk.com.
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