Job Description:

• 1) Applies blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative covering to floors, walls, and cabinets: Disconnects and removes obstacles, such as appliances and light fixtures.

• 2) Sweeps, scrapes, sands, or chips dirt and irregularities from base surfaces, and fills cracks with putty, plaster, or cement grout to form smooth, clean foundation.

• 3) Measures and cuts covering materials, such as rubber, linoleum or cork tile, and foundation material, such as felt, according to blueprints and sketches, using rule, straightedge, linoleum knife, and snips.

• 4) Spreads adhesive cement over floor to cement foundation material to floor for sound-deadening, and to prevent covering from wearing at board joints.

• 5) Lays out centerlines, guidelines, and borderlines on foundation with chalkline and dividers.

• 6) Spreads cement on foundation material with serrated trowel.

• 7) Lays covering on cement, following guidelines, to keep tile courses straight and butts edges of blocks to match patterns and execute designs.

• 8) Joins sections of sheet covering by overlapping adjoining edges and cutting through both layers with knife to form tight joint.

• 9) Rolls finished floor to smooth it and press cement into base and covering.

• 10) May soften area of floor covering with butane torch to fit materials around irregular surfaces.

• 11) May lay carpet.

• 12) May be designated according to type of floor laid as Asphalt-Tile-Floor Layer; Cork-Tile-Floor Layer; Linoleum-Floor Layer; Linoleum Layer; Linoleum-Tile-Floor Layer; Rubber-Tile-Floor Layer.