Correct or claim a record
This site copies a public register. A copy can be wrong in ways the original is not: read on a date that has since passed, matched to the wrong business by a keyword, or carrying a name the state has since amended. Anything on this site that a reader believes is wrong gets checked against the state register and corrected or removed.
Correction is not a negotiation about what the record says. If the state has a business recorded a particular way, that is what appears here. What can be fixed is this site's copy of it, and this site's judgement that the business belongs in a flooring list at all.
How to ask
The corrections channel is not open yet, and until it is, this register is not published.
A site that makes factual statements about named businesses without a way to challenge them is not finished. The channel is a condition of publication here, not an addition to it — the register goes live on the day the address does, and not before.
If the business is yours
A record here holds what the state publishes and nothing more: the registered name, the number, the town, the status. It does not show which manufacturers you are trained on, which certifications you hold, or how you document a slab — because none of that is in the state register and this site does not invent it.
A claimed record can carry those things, and it carries them as what they are. Five fields on a claimed page are the owner's own answers, picked from fixed lists and printed with the date they were declared — which is not the date anyone checked them, and the page does not say it is. One of those five, the trade credentials, can go further: where a credential has been looked up in the issuing body's own directory, the page says so and carries the date of that lookup instead. For the other four there is no issuing body to ask, so nothing pretends there was one. The sixth field on a claimed page is not a declaration at all — it is the state's own registration date, labelled as the state's.
Claiming is a right to complete your own entry. It is not an advertising slot, it does not move you up any list, there is no list to move up, and nothing on this site can be bought.
Claiming is not open yet. When it is, it will be announced on this page.
What can and cannot be changed
This site copies a public register and adds nothing to it. That fixes what a correction can reach.
Can be corrected
- A record copied wrongly — a mistyped number, the wrong town, a name the state has since amended.
- A record that has gone stale since the register was read.
- A business listed here that does not lay floors, and was matched only because its trading name carries a flooring word.
- A business missing from the list that should be in it.
- Anything on the schedule of manufacturer limits that misreads the source document.
Cannot be changed
- What the state register says. If a registration is recorded a particular way, that is what appears here — the state is the place to change it.
- Position in the list. It is alphabetical and there is nothing to move up.
- Removal of an accurate record because its subject would rather not appear. This is a copy of a public register.
Every request is checked against the state register before anything on this site changes, and the answer says what was checked and what was found — including when the answer is that the record was right.
That promise is narrower for one column than the sentence above makes it sound. Every other field on a record can be put back to the state's own live lookup, one registration at a time; the county cannot, because that lookup does not publish it. What stands in that column came out of the bulk file the register was built from, so a dispute about it is checked against that file and against nothing else — and where the file says what was published here, the copy is faithful and there is nowhere further this site can take it. The same limit is why the sample check compared five fields rather than six.
Nothing comes down while a request is being looked at. A record stays as it is until the check is finished, because pulling an entry out of a copy of a public register on the strength of an unverified claim is itself an edit nobody asked for, and it would leave anyone who read the row yesterday with no way to find out what became of it. If the check finds the record wrong, what changes is said plainly rather than done quietly.