The National Wood Flooring Association held its inspector school and certification Sept. 16-20 at its headquarters in St. Louis. At the end of the week, students had the option to take an exam consisting of 326 multiple-choice questions. In order to be certified, students must pass the written test with a score of 75 percent or better and correctly respond to two Inspection Report Scenarios simulating complaints to be inspected.
The NWFA's Brett Miller taught the class along with:
Cathy Duncan (EZ Report Writing)Drew Kern (Infinity Claims Management Solutions)Tim Moore (Moore & Neville Inc. Flooring Inspections)Jon Namba (Namba Services Inc.)
In order to be eligible for the inspector school, students had to have a minimum of three years' experience in wood floor installation, sanding and finishing and successfully complete two NWFA installation workshops and two sand-and-finish workshops. The following students attended the class, and all but one took the written exam on Friday:
Patrick Alvarez (Huggins Wood Floor Specialist)Scott Avery (Modern Tech Floors LLC)Joe Avila (Huggins Wood Floor Specialist)Marcel Bedard (Expert Flooring Inc.)Chad Bonner (Floors Inc.)Kevin Bryant (Bryant Hardwood Floors Inc.)J. Lawrence Elkin (Applied Building Sciences Inc.)Phillip Fleming (Lumber Liquidators Inc.)Jason Kinney (Green Step Flooring Inc.)Arkadiusz Kosmaty (Superior Hardwood Floors Ltd.)Dan KourtisMiroslaw Olowski (Success Floors LLC)Eric Payne (Eric Payne Floorcoverings Inc.)Joseph Rocco (Artistic Floors by Design Inc.)Bruce Scott (Professional Flooring Sol Corp.)Taft Smithson (Sun Country Floors Inc.)Maik Trendel (Riemer Floors)
NWFA will hold its Inspector Workshops Nov. 4-8 at its headquarters in St. Louis. Topics covered that week include testing labs, engineered flooring, bamboo, sand and finish inspection and report writing. More information on the Inspector Workshops is available here.
