As with any construction project, installing flooring includes planning, labor, equipment, and liability issues. Flooring is considered a specialty within the construction industry. Before a flooring project even begins, there are necessary details and areas of planning to consider, such as selecting materials for the floor, cost estimating, using standards of practice, fall protection, coating, and floor maintenance instructions.

Whittco Hawaii provides flooring expert witness testimony with our background in specific types of flooring, including carpets, hardwood floors, marble, ceramic tile, rubber tile, stone tile, laminates, vinyl flooring, sheet flooring, rubber, LVP, & LVT. Our flooring experience, expert licensing & certifications qualifies us in the areas of floor inspection, general contracting, claims inspection and more.

With the amount of planning and foresight involved, there are possibilities for liability issues to arise once the project has gone underway or after it has been completed. An issue regarding quality or safety of the floor may be related to premises or product liability, construction accidents, fall protection, and slips, trips, and falls. The business side of a lawsuit may include a dispute between the contractor and customers, violation of construction building codes, or material failure. Flooring by a professional contractor entails working by a set of standards and regulations. The issue of flooring can become the center of a lawsuit if an incident happened leading to an injury or if there’s an issue in quality. It is important to invest in expert witness testimony BEFORE issues arise. Whittco Hawaii has served hundreds of clients as an expert witness for more than thirty years.