Ian CheadleIan Cheadle is owner/operator at Dayton Hardwood Co. in Oakwood, Ohio.ManagementHow I Pre-Qualify Clients to Avoid Wasting TimeWood floor pro Ian Cheadle pre-qualifies potential clients, which helps filter out people who are not serious about obtaining his services.June 27, 2023ContractingYes, I Do Charge Money for Insurance-Related Estimates 😱I could make a whole career of providing insurance estimates for wood flooring damage to folks for free, but that would be a short-lived career, since oftentimes I wouldn’t end up doing any work. Now I charge for those estimates.June 2, 2023MarketingHow ChatGPT Helps Me as a Wood Flooring ContractorWood floor pro Ian Cheadle has been using ChatGPT to help him create blog posts for his website, and by giving it simple prompts and adding a couple parameters to the prompts, it's writing better blogs than he ever has.May 15, 2023Subfloor PrepMy Steps For Prepping a Plywood or OSB Subfloor For Wood FlooringMarch 17, 2022ContractingWhy I Love Running a Single-Person Wood Flooring BusinessAt first wood flooring pro Ian Cheadle was concerned about being a one-person wood flooring contracting business, but he came to realize it's the best situation for him.July 20, 2021Page 1 of 1Top StoriesSubfloor PrepHow We Flatten Wood and Concrete SubfloorsWood floor pro Angelo DeSanto takes subfloor prep seriously; here he shows some actual jobs and how they handled making sure the subfloors were ready for the wood flooring.DesignExquisite Parquet for a Floridian ‘Italian Castle’InspectionsWhat I’ve Learned as an Inspector for ‘Luxury Vinyl’ FlooringTroubleshootingQ&A: What Are These Strange Raised Areas in this Wood Floor?TechniquesTop-Nail 5/16-Inch Strip: How We Did (and Still Do) These Floors
