Congoleum s Diamondflor is a low maintenance, no-wax product highly resistant to damage. This is important in a manufactured housing plant where flooring is delivered in jumbo rolls of approximately 700 square yards and handled by heavy equipment. Use of larger rolls reduces remnants and cuts down on waste. Champion, like most producers, starts with a deck, usually perimeter fastens the flooring to the deck and then builds the house on top of this deck. Using better quality products, notes Pomianoski, results in less in-plant damage and fewer call backs.
Durability is also important to home buyers, especially aging baby boomers.
If the flooring can get through a manufactured housing plant without being damaged, Pomianoski adds, it can stand up to a lot of household wear and tear. There s also more multi-sectional homes, which have a broader appeal. As a result, the potential market for manufactured housing has increased greatly. Congoleum products are distributed to the manufactured housing industry exclusively by LaSalle Bristol Corporpation. LaSalle Bristol is based in Elkhart, Ind., and has 25 warehouses strategically located throughout the U.S. to service the industry.