Online New Product Gallery
By submitting a product for the gallery, your company consents to the terms below.
Terms:
Products must qualify as new as defined below:
A product qualifies as new if it is manufactured or exclusively distributed by a company and was introduced to the marketplace since January 2021.
OFFICIAL RULES
Set forth below are a list of rules (the “Rules”) applicable to the Online New Product Gallery being sponsored by International Tile Exposition, a joint venture t/a Coverings (“Coverings”). By submitting any materials to Coverings for use with respect to the Online New Product Gallery (the “Materials”), you acknowledge and agree to each of the following terms:
You must be a Coverings 2022 exhibitor to enter new products in the Online New Product Gallery. If you submit more than one product into the online gallery, all rules below apply to all product entries.
The product must be new in 2021. “New” means the product must have been first sold at any level of distribution since January 1, 2021. All new product entries are subject to approval. Coverings reserves the right to remove/disqualify any product that it believes does not qualify as new.
The number of product submissions per exhibitor is limited to (7) seven.
There is no entry fee to submit a product for the Online New Product Gallery.
The Online New Product Gallery will be available online on the website and mobile app.
Coverings may in its sole discretion elect not to include a product in its 2022 Online New Product Gallery.
You grant a perpetual royalty free license to Coverings for the use of the Materials as part of the Online New Product Gallery.
Coverings may make any stylistic edits to submission entries that it deems to be appropriate, in its commercially reasonable judgement.
Any legal dispute relating to these Rules or the Online New Product Gallery will be resolved by Arbitration in Arlington, Virginia before a single arbitrator under the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association.
In no event shall the aggregate liability of Coverings to you with respect to the Online New Product Showcase exceed $500.00.
In no event shall any joint venture member of Coverings have any direct liability to you with respect to the Online New Product Gallery with your recourse being limited solely to the assets of Coverings.
What Lies Beneath: How the Tile Community Saved the Day with Proper Preparation
Wednesday, April 06, 2022: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker(s)
Description
Many of you have seen it, the viral video of a contractor smashing a customer’s bathroom after she complained about his work. When she was unable to pay for the costly repairs caused by the contractor, in stepped the professional tile community. Join Jason McDaniel of Global Tile Posse, a member of the repair team, and the homeowner, as they share the before and after of the installation and examine the underlying issues of the initial install. What was missing/wrong and how can proper preparation ensure your jobs don’t end the same way? What best practices in preparation and installation can help you avoid poor reviews and customer disappointment? Discuss what it means to be qualified labor, why training is important, and how and why you need specifiers and customers to engage and understand how to select a professional tile contractor.
Learning Objectives
Review the underlying issues in a tile installation which led to costly repairs for a homeowner.
Discuss the impact of qualified labor and proper training on tile installations.
Explore how proper preparation could have avoided the issues resulting from the initial installation.
Examine the impact of utilizing best practices in tile preparation and installation.