Founded in 1924
William Ponce founded Flooring Solutions in Charlotte, NC in
1924. Charlotte was very different then than it is
today. It was a small city with a population of only
45,000 inhabitants. But it was growing rapidly, thanks to
the textile and manufacturing industries like Flooring
Solutions.
The architecture of the city center had
many historical style buildings, including the Victorian,
Colonial Revival, and Georgian Revival styles. These
constructions favored high quality wood flooring the Flooring
Solutions became known for early on.
Since its
inception Mr. Ponce refused to cut costs. Famously he
refused to complete an order for the North Carolina Union Bank
(NCUB), the biggest order of
hardwood
he had to date. The problem was that some of the wood was
not up to his quality standards and thus could not be cut into
the floor boards.
NCUB construction managers
assured Mr. Ponce that they were totally fine with the raw
material and asked him to continue. When he refused again,
the threatened to cancel the whole order. He famously
said, "We do it right or not at all." In the end, the
order was completed. To this day that is the Flooring
Solutions motto.
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