Floorcraft fits the FEINest floors
(and ceilings) with its new value pack
This issue we join Jasper, a young self-employed joiner to discuss his
work, his views on buying tools and his review of the newly launched
value pack range, focusing on FEIN’s new Best of Flooring set.
Jasper Cochrane is a 24-year kitchen
fitter who last October started his very
own joinery business, specialising in
flooring. Following years of testing out
different careers, he decided to follow
in his dad’s footsteps, with him and his
younger brother both taking on joinery
apprenticeships. “My dad was kind (and
patient) enough to put us both through
the 4 years of training, creating a
family business. After completing my
apprenticeship, I worked for bigger
joinery firms but decided that I would
rather start up my own company, as I
wanted to guarantee an excellent finish
every time - something which wasn’t
possible working for a large firm.”
So it was that Floorcraft was born,
which finds self-employed Jasper
undertaking all levels of flooring jobs,
ranging from small scale domestic, to
large scale commercial jobs. “I often
work with high quality materials,
which can be pretty nerve wracking
sometimes, because if anything
goes wrong, it’s all down to me. The
perks of being self-employed! As
well as flooring, I ensure high quality
finishings and can extend my work to
other aspects of joinery; whatever is
needed to complete the space.
Starting out as a new business can be
tough, but I have received support from
family and firms, which has enabled me
to purchase high performance tools. I
love researching tools, saving up and
buying the ones I think are the coolest,
but also have quality and power. Let’s
be honest, you get what you pay for in
life. Bottom line - If the tool helps me
get jobs completed well, and faster,
then ultimately I make bigger profit
margins, which is good for the wallet,
and for a start-up like Floorcraft.
This is why FEIN is now one of my
favorite brands because the quality of
the tools they produce is excellent and
without compromise, something hard
to find in modern power tools. Things
like the anti-vibration features on the
FEIN MultiMaster is world-class, and I
jumped on the opportunity to test their
‘Flooring Value Pack’ in the UK, which
contains a HSS segmented blade, an
E-Cut saw blade and a scraper blade.
I used the pack on-site whilst loading
6 ceilings with service hatches for a
hotel based in Glasgow, and whilst
delivering new flooring for a property
that was experiencing damp issues
around the owners UVC front door. For
the hotel fit, I used the HSS blade to
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cut out sections for the hatches in the
plasterboard ceiling, before plastering.
I then used a round sanding pad on the
multi-tool to sand down the heavier
bits of plaster, and some of the MDF
hatch pieces, before painting. For
the property, I used the E-Cut blade
to deliver undercutting of the doors,
and facings before sliding the flooring
underneath. I also delivered some
small cut outs on the flooring itself.
Despite putting money down on
the machine, I had used other
manufacturer blades in addition to
FEIN’s, FEIN’s blades clearly being of
higher quality. I’ll be filling my toolbox
with FEIN Starlock from now on.”
For more information on the Best of
Flooring set, or other packs available
in FEIN’s value pack range check
out www.fein.com/en_uk/news/
promotions/the-great-british-value-
pack-range-0792/