Hardwood Floors December 2017/January 2018

Wood Stock

DISTRIBUTOR DOINGS

MAKING HISTORY

• Gilford-Johnson Flooring LLC, a ooring distributor in Je ersonville, Indiana, has purchased Miami-based Mastercra Flooring Distributors. • Horizon Forest Products is celebrating its 25-Year Anniversary. In 1992, Horizon opened its doors with just eight employees in a 20,000 square foot facility near the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. ey currently employ more than 120 employees in 11 branch locations across ve states. Solutions, has been named the president of the board of directors of the Floor Covering Distributors Alliance (FCDA). • J. J. Haines announced that Brian Green was promoted to senior vice president – CMH sales &marketing. In this new role, Brian will lead all sales and marketing e orts for the company’s CMH Flooring Division. • PID Floors recently announced the opening of a new showroom in New York City’s Herald Square exclusively featuring Bauwerk® parquet ooring products. • Home Depot Inc. is eliminating substances like formaldehyde and lead in several categories, making it the latest retailer to accede to demands for greener products. e changes are part of a broader plan to minimize or disclose harmful substances in the paints, insulation, and ooring it sells. • Lumber Liquidators said that it reached an agreement with a group of plainti s to se le lawsuits associated with Chinese- made laminate ooring previously sold by Lumber Liquidators between Jan. 1, 2009 and May 31, 2015. RETAILER ROUNDUP • BobWagner, president and CEO of Baltimore-based Fishman Flooring

most recent work for Lynn inside of the Supreme Court. e task at hand included removing bookcases and matching the oor covering to the existing ri and quarter sawn white oak, including some walnut and mahogany inlays. PROCESS DETAILS “A er the original bookcases were removed, the oor covering underneath no longer matched what was in the rest of the room,” says Lynn. “As we do with any historic restoration, we deconstructed the existing oor, labeling every piece, and used wood from our stockpile to recon gure the oor to accommodate the new layout.” For Lynn, this work is a family a air. “It’s unique to be able to continue my grandfather’s legacy in the Supreme Court building by using my skills to restore the oors inside. It’s fun. It’s challenging. It’s historic restoration.”

Sprigg Lynn, the owner of Universal Floors Inc., a family-owned company out of Washington D.C., has been working on oors in the U.S. Supreme Court, previously located inside the Capitol building, for many years. David Lynn, Sprigg’s grandfather, was the seventh architect of the Capitol, making the work even more signi cant to Sprigg. Universal Floors has a growing stockpile of salvaged wood, making them an ideal candidate for work in Washington D.C.’s historic homes and buildings. “When houses are slated for demolition, we go in, inspect the property, and salvage the wood. We’ve go en wood from all over the city,” says Lynn. FLOOR FOCUS Earlier this year, Colorado’s Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a Justice and had a few renovation requests for his o ce. ese requests have become the

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