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FITA Provides Demo Zone at Harrogate Floor Show 5th, 6th and 7th September 2010
(Originally posted: Tuesday 13th July 2010)

FITA is delighted to announce that we are offering the main flooring demonstration zone at the 2010 Harrogate floor show.  Featuring products from FITA sponsors and show exhibitors we have an interesting mix of systems products and innovation that we are looking forward to showcasing.

The current prgramme for the demo Zone is as follows:

Sunday 5th 
10.00 am Carpet – Stretch fit with join
11.30 am Floating Solid Wood Flooring
12:45 pm Floor Seals and Polish
1.15 pm Sub-floor preparation
2.30 pm Resilient Flooring (commercial) including cold welding
4.00 pm Sub-floor renovation system
 
Monday 6th
10.00 am Carpet – Stretch fit with join
11.30 am Laminate Flooring
12:45 am Floor Seals and Polish
1.15 pm Sub-floor renovation system
2.30 pm Resilient Flooring (commercial) including cold welding
4.00 pm Sub-floor preparation
 
Tuesday 7th 
10.00 am Carpet – Stretch fit with join
11.30 am Floating Solid Wood Flooring
12.45 pm Floor Seals and Polish
1.15 pm Sub-floor preparation
2.30 pm Resilient Flooring (domestic) including cold welding
4.00 pm  Sub-floor renovation system

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2010/2011 - new dates available
(Originally posted: Wednesday 9th June 2010)

New dates have been added to our course schedule3 for the remainder of 2010 and through to the end of July 2011.


M&S use FITA to assess floor layers
(Originally posted: Thursday 7th January 2010)

Following consultation in the summer of 2009, we are delighted to announce that leading high street retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) decided to use FITA to carry out assessments on installers who will fit floors in their premises for their ongoing programme in 2010.

 

Part of their wider Flooring Improvement Programme which also requires all companies employed to be CFA members M&S Construction Standards Manager Matt Edgell made the following comments regarding the objectives and experience of working with both FITA and the CFA:

 

“As part of a significant drive in 2009 to identify and eliminate a large number of poor quality flooring installation in its stores, M&S established a team whose challenge was to remove the identified issues.  This challenge led to the development of a ten point Flooring Improvement Programme fully supported by the flooring industry itself.

 

As part of our improvement programme we wanted to establish a baseline of competency that all floor layers working in M&S Stores achieved.  This is the area that the Flooring Industry Training Association (FITA) were able to assist.  Working with FITA, we developed a four module assessment programme that utilised their centrally located, fully equipped training centre.  On our behalf FITA were able to assess the competency of and to demonstrate best practice to a group of 44 pre-selected floor layers in a 5 week period in November and December 2009.  We have been impressed by FITA's ability to successfully co-ordinate and manage this assessment programme taking into account the flexibility required when dealing with floor layers from multiple organisations throughout the UK. 

 

Overall our experience of working with the CFA and FITA has been incredibly positive and we look forward to reaping the rewards of the relationship with an improved quality of installed floor.”


New Sponsors
(Originally posted: Monday 10th March 2008)

We would like to welcome new sponsors Bostik Ltd to our list of Official Sponsors. 

Thank you to our new sponsors and also our long standing supporters.