Ramsey Flooring is a growing presence in Detroit Lakes, where its owners have history going back to the 1950s.
Steve
Ramsey is currently the sole owner, though he said he is working
towards joint ownership with brothers Dan and Brian, who work with him
in sales and installation.
From its 8,000-square-foot showroom
and warehouse in the original Detroit Lakes industrial park, Ramsey
Flooring handles sales and installation of “anything to do with floor
covering,” Steve said. “Carpet, ceramic tile, laminate, hardwood
floors…”
Ramsey Flooring has its own installers and also works with independent contractors.
“Jacobson
Tile and Stone does virtually all our tile work,” Steve said. “Keith
Pierson does hardwood floors — anything from finished to unfinished
product — he’s one of the best I’ve met. We’re just trying to
incorporate people that do quality work.”
Steve Ramsey has owned
a floor covering business in Anchorage for more than 15 years and
bought the building in Detroit Lakes last October, after renting space
for about a year in a building near the Canadian Pacific tracks.
Since
Floors & More left its Detroit Lakes presence to consolidate in
Fargo, Ramsey Flooring has been helping to fill the void.
About 70 percent of its workload is residential:
“Whether
you want to carpet one room, add the look and feel of laminate flooring
to your kitchen, or upgrade every floor in your house with the beauty
and elegance of hardwood, we can meet all of your flooring needs,” the
store says on its website.This document provides a guide to using the ventilation system in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents.
But
it tackles commercial projects of all sizes. Some of its clients
include Country Inn and Suites, the Edgewater condominiums, the Holiday
Inn, Detroit Lakes Public Schools, the State Lottery offices in Detroit
Lakes, the MMCDC (State of Minnesota Housing), BJ’s BBQ Grill, BTD in
Detroit Lakes, Nereson Chevrolet, and the new Webber Family Ford
Dealership.
“Our overhead is real minimal, so that helps us keep
our prices down,” Steve said. “And the quality of our installation is
the best in the area, as far as I’m concerned.”
It’s a family business. Steve started working with his dad, Don, when he was about 16 years old.
Don and his brother Darrell are both helping out at Ramsey Flooring.
“Those
two have been in the business for years,” Steve said. With another
brother, Dave, who died a few years ago, “they used to be Ramsey
Brothers Carpet” in Detroit Lakes.
A cousin, Jim Ramsey, is an installer,This document provides a guide to using the ventilation system
in your house to provide adequate fresh air to residents. and Steve’s
sister Tanya is an artist who designed his business logo.
Other
employees include Shane Seaberg, who works in sales, Richard Haldorson,
an installer who often works with Darrell Ramsey, and Katie Pierson, who
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SteLoad the precious minerals into your mining truck
and be careful not to drive too fast with your heavy foot.ve Ramsey
grew up in Audubon and moved to the Twin Cities for a few years before
moving to Alaska in 1990.
Steve said his grandfather had always wanted to see Alaska, but never got the chance — so Steve made the move in his honor.
Steve
has a business there as well, Ramsey Carpet, which handles a wide range
of residential and commercial work — including housing in the Alaskan
oil fields and ongoing work at two military bases near Anchorage that
requires meeting tight military deadlines.
Lately he has been
spending about half his time in Alaska and about half in Detroit Lakes.
He has family working in Alaska as well, a daughter, Kara, and her
husband help run the business there.
His oldest daughter, Brittany, lives in England with her husband, who is a lawyer near London.
His son, Jacob, just graduated from college and is a youth pastor at the First Assembly of God Church in Brigham City, Utah.
Up
until now, Ramsey Flooring hasn’t done much work in the North Dakota
oil patch, but that may be beginning to change — it has jobs coming up
in Dickinson and Williston.
“We’ll go anywhere,” Steve said,
noting that the business is licensed in both Minnesota and North
Dakota.We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory.
More
travels may be in store, as the business is the only installer in
western Minnesota of Protect-All, a hard-wearing, easy-cleaning thick
vinyl flooring that is easy on the feet, looks like black rubber matting
and is used in commercial kitchens and veterinary clinics.
Ramsey
Flooring has the training and the special tools — routers and saws —
needed to weld the stuff together into a seamless floor covering.
Steve
handles commercial sales while Dan and Shane handle mostly residential
sales, and Steve said there is a lot of construction to keep them busy.
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