Ken Palin – Founder of FLOORWORKS, Facility Restoration and Construction Services, and The Grey Haired Guys. Ken participated in construction projects from the age of fourteen. As teenagers, our family owned a masonry company constructing and repairing brick and concrete block buildings to start, then contracted for all the masonry work on ESPN’s very first building located one mile from our home in Bristol, CT. A few years later, our family purchased a scaffolding company and started constructing, leasing, and selling scaffold all over New England, a perfect complement to masonry work. As the business grew, the company contracted to erect scaffolding and conducted repairs at numerous colleges, churches, Yale University in New Haven, West Point Academy, Paul Newman’s’ Restaurant, and Phil Donahue’s’ Estate, to name a few.

In later years, Ken relocated to Dallas and invested five years as a commercial project manager installing concrete floor coatings in restaurants, manufacturing plants and airplane hangars. Residential floor coatings and swimming pool concrete coatings were installed under the name of FLOORWORKS. Ken invested the next five years as a project manager for a commercial paving company. In 1999, Ken founded Facility Restoration and Construction Services, a commercial general contracting company.

John Costa, Project Estimator, Superintendent of Projects
A trained electrician from his military service in the U.S. Navy, and OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration) trained and certified, John has a focused background of residential and commercial remodeling for 38 years. He progressed in his career mastering several trades and is talented in managing all phases of any size construction project. His resume includes overseeing the Facility Department at Rice University for 5 (five) years. His staff included an excess of 144 employees.

Recently, John has traveled the USA managing remodels and “out of ground” stores for Pizza Hut, Mattress Giant, Save-a-lot, Quik Trip Gas Stations, and Chili’s to name a few. John has decided to remain local with his family and limit long term builds out of town.

Patt, Painting, interior, exterior 30 years

Steve Collier, (right) is a residential and commercial painting specialist. Over 25 years, Steve has painted hundreds of schools, churches, bank buildings, apartment complexes, homes, and has a special team that paints fences, iron and wood.

Martin, Masonry - Granite, marble, brick, stone 30 years

Smiley, 20 years in this specialty trade. Save $ on concrete replacement - We restore old concrete by filling voids, raising and leveling concrete sidewalks, driveways, and streets. Move water to drains as originally designed.

Edward, Asphalt Forman 30 years

Chris, Media blasting (sand or glass blasting) 30 years

Dean, 30 years parking lot, painting removal and restoration

Patsy, Administrative Assistant

JC Ahangama - Network Administrator: JC is an IT Consultant at American Integrated Systems (AIS). They have top expertise on LANs (interoperation of Windows 9x/2K/NT/XP and Macintosh) and on bridging offices (VPNs) and provide advisement on network security. They install customized instant backup / recovery systems, web servers, email servers and develop ecommerce sites. Also, they provide maintenance service contracts for small offices. Email : JC@LANandWAN.com, Telephone: 817-473-9984, Web site: LANandWAN.com.

Rick Watson, (center) is the distributor for Elite Crete and technical advisor for many of our flooring projects. Lee Slabach, (right) is a commercial flooring consultant for concrete coatings, has been a friend for twenty years.

Our accounting, bookkeeping, and payroll is managed by Mr. Brent Palmer, Small Business Accounting in Plano, Texas.

Martina Kolmeder, Upon receiving her physics degree from SMU she was an Introduction to Programming instructor and then an Application Engineer. She left the corporate world to go into business for herself with a focus on Web and Database Development and Photography. Her technical and creative abilities allow customers to receive one-stop Web Design from conception to completion. Visit her Website at MartinasWeb.com.