About this site
This site does two things. It publishes the New Jersey home improvement contractor register, filtered to flooring and to businesses the state records as active. And it publishes the documentation a manufacturer warranty depends on, taken from the installation documents the manufacturers themselves put out.
Those two halves are here together because they answer one question a homeowner cannot otherwise answer: not who is good, which nobody can tell you, but what should this person be able to show me.
The disclosure
This register is compiled and published by the operator of this site, a materials-only flooring retailer in the United States. The operator sells flooring materials. It does not sell or arrange fitting, it is not in the installation trade, and it has no commercial relationship with any contractor recorded here.
That boundary is deliberate and it is the reason the scope stops where it does. A publisher who sold installation and rated installers would be marking its own competitors; a publisher who rated flooring retailers would be marking its own trade. This site rates nobody, which is what keeps it out of both.
It does not record installers only, and the difference is worth stating plainly. The state's register carries no trade column, so what selects an entry is the trading name. Of the New Jersey registrations the state records as active, one whose name carries a flooring word — tile alone aside — is copied here, whether it lays floors, sells them or supplies them. Some of these entries will be retailers or suppliers rather than installers, and the name is the only signal there is — this page cannot tell you which is which. They are copied, not assessed; nothing on this site scores any of them. A business that does not lay floors and would rather not be in a list of contractors can ask to be taken out.
No contractor pays to appear. No contractor can pay to be removed, to be placed higher, or to have a record changed to something the state register does not say.
What this site will not do
- It does not rate, rank, score or recommend any contractor.
- It does not sell leads, pass on enquiries, or take a fee for an introduction.
- It does not publish prices, quotes or labour figures.
- It does not publish lapsed registrations as a list. The register is cumulative and cannot tell a closed business from a trading one that let its filing slip — why that matters.
- It does not claim to list every flooring contractor in New Jersey. It lists 634 active registrations whose trading name carries a flooring word — what that leaves out.
What is counted
Page views are counted in aggregate so the operator can see which pages are read and which are not. Nothing typed into the search box on the register is sent anywhere: filtering runs in the browser against a list already on the page, and the register is not queried as you type.
The register and the schedule are also published as a single JSON file, which is the same data the pages are built from.
Why a materials seller publishes this
Floors fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the floor. A plank that cups, gaps or lifts is usually reacting to a slab that was wetter, or less flat, than the manufacturer allowed for — and by the time it shows, the evidence that would have settled the question is eighteen months gone. The homeowner has a failed floor, the installer has a memory, and the manufacturer has a document that says the conditions were the installer's responsibility.
Everyone in that argument loses, including whoever sold the material. The records on this site are the ones that end it before it starts, and they cost almost nothing to produce while a job is running. That is the whole reason this exists: not to find anyone a contractor, but to make the paperwork ordinary.
Nothing here is behind a form, a sign-up or a paywall, and the register and schedule are published as data as well as pages. If it is useful, it is useful to read and to quote.