Nate Callahan
I grew up watching my father restore hardwood floors in old Louisville homes on weekends. He wasn't a flooring contractor — he was a high school shop teacher who just happened to know how to do things right. That habit stuck with me.
I got into flooring professionally after college, working for a large installation company in Nashville. Good training, but the production-line approach bothered me. Crews were measured by square footage per day, not quality of installation. I saw a lot of floors fail that shouldn't have.
In 2008, I went out on my own. My first client was a neighbor whose kitchen tile had been installed by someone else and was already cracking after eight months. I fixed it, charged fairly, and she told five people. That's basically the Summit business model.
I earned my CFI certification in 2011 — the Certified Flooring Installer credential from the World Floor Covering Association. I keep it current because it matters. It means I know how different substrates behave, how humidity affects expansion gaps, and which adhesives belong in which applications.
We're small on purpose. I take on the number of jobs I can personally oversee. That means you get my phone number, my opinion on your material choices, and my hands on your floor.