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- Angelo DeSanto
- June 20th 2018
Recently, I reacted to a fellow wood flooring pro posting in a Facebook group regarding an issue with a homeowner and Post-It notes. The homeowner left many Post-It notes to mark places on the wood...
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- Howard Brickman
- June 12th 2018
Earlier this year I was asked to evaluate the maple floors in the Great Hall of Faneuil Hall, which is a historic landmark building in Boston where Revolutionary-era meetings and protests...
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- Angelo DeSanto
- June 4th 2018
I never met Willard, but I sure have learned a lot from him. In telling this story I’m making a few assumptions but parroting what his customer told me with 100 percent accuracy. Back in 1993 I was...
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- Stephen Diggins
- May 29th 2018
I was contacted by a local homeowner who had been reading articles and blogs on the WFB website. This man had the floors in his new home refinished, and after more than four weeks, the finish was...
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- Greg Ceglarski
- April 20th 2018
The first thing that I have to say is: I am sorry for taking so long to write Part 2, and I’m especially sorry to Jorge Perez and Joel Perez (you guys related?) and my friend Chris McElroy, who all...
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- Stephen Diggins
- January 23rd 2018
If you haven’t read Michael E. Gerber’s famous book “The E-Myth” (The Entrepreneurial Myth), I suggest you do. The book has been in print in several forms since 1986, so let me give you the...
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- Stephen Diggins
- January 17th 2018
“Friday I was in a bookstore. I started talking to this very French-looking girl. She was a bilingual illiterate—she couldn't read in two different languages.”—Steven Wright
Hardwood...
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- Greg Ceglarski
- January 11th 2018
There are two very different managers and subsequently two very different teams (or crews, businesses, organizations or companies ... anything with more than one person working toward anything).
Are...
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- Stephen Diggins
- December 11th 2017
I have a short story from last week—something I had never experienced in my life. File this one under “Customers Say the Darndest Things.”
My outside salesman went to look at an installation...
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- Stephen Diggins
- November 22nd 2017
It all started December of 2015 with a devastating fire in a beautiful country mansion in New Hampshire where, luckily, no lives were lost. The flames engulfed the entire home, and over 50...
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