Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
Career Cluster
Architecture and Construction
Focuses on human-made structures such as buildings, parks, and cities. In this field, you'll engage in designing and managing the built environment. It includes disciplines like landscaping, urban planning, and public health.
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Expected pay range
Expected pay range
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Monthly cost of living
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About floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
What they do
Apply blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative coverings to floors.
Other titles
Floor Covering Contractor, Floor Coverings Installer, Floor Layer, Flooring Installer, Flooring Mechanic, Tile Installer, Tile Setter, Vinyl Installer
Skills they need
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
Licenses and Certifications they may hold
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Certifications
Certifications may be available for this career and can help build knowledge and skills in specific job roles. Explore available certifications (external link opens new tab)
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In demand
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Better pay
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Apply plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings. Apply or mount acoustical tiles or blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing materials to ceilings and walls of buildings to reduce or reflect sound. Materials may be of decorative quality. Includes lathers who fasten wooden, metal, or rockboard lath to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings to provide support base for plaster, fireproofing, or acoustical material.
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Better pay
Median salary for this career is higher than the median salary of all careers in the county selected. Salary data is provided by the Texas Workforce Commission.
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- CFI (external link opens new tab)
- FCICA- the Flooring Contractors Association (external link opens new tab)
- Finishing Trades Institute International (external link opens new tab)
- Home Builders Institute (external link opens new tab)
- International Masonry Institute (external link opens new tab)
- International Standards and Training Alliance (INSTALL) (external link opens new tab)
- International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (external link opens new tab)
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (external link opens new tab)
- National Tile Contractors Association (external link opens new tab)
- National Wood Flooring Association (external link opens new tab)