Video: Breaking Back into Contracting

Jul 30, 2014

Hi everyone, it's been awhile, but I'm going to start blogging again. Here's my story about how I decided to get back into the contracting business:

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What Is the Top Advice You’d Give Someone Thinking of Starting in Sports Flooring?

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From Jobsite to Factory Floor: LED Roller Coaters Are Revolutionizing Wood Finishing

From Jobsite to Factory Floor: LED Roller Coaters Are Revolutionizing Wood Finishing

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Tales From the Front: Abracadabra! Crabby Coworker Does Magic

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What’s The Most Dangerous Thing You’ve Seen On a Job?

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Historic Red Pine Flooring Comes to Life Post-Fire

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What Is the Top Advice You’d Give Someone Thinking of Starting in Sports Flooring?

Sports flooring specialists share their top advice for wood flooring pros thinking of breaking into the sports flooring market.

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From Jobsite to Factory Floor: LED Roller Coaters Are Revolutionizing Wood Finishing

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Finishing delays, curing times and VOC compliance are costing both time and margin. But what if the entire process from application to cure could happen instantly, cleanly and right where you need it?

From Jobsite to Factory Floor: LED Roller Coaters Are Revolutionizing Wood Finishing

Tales From the Front

Tales From the Front: Abracadabra! Crabby Coworker Does Magic

Eric Nylin of Dustless Floor Sanders in Malden, Mass., saw the funniest magic trick ever on a wood flooring job site when his crabby coworker had a close encounter with the massive drapes.

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What’s The Most Dangerous Thing You’ve Seen On a Job?

Wood Floor Business readers share some mind-boggling sights from their lives on wood flooring jobs.

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Wood Floor Rescue

Historic Red Pine Flooring Comes to Life Post-Fire

Although Scott Cooksey of Terre Haute, Ind.-based Hardwood Renovations does a large amount of wood floor refinishing work, this job in Brazil, Ind., was unique in that one of the rooms had actually been on fire.

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The Horrible Wood Flooring Job That Taught Me So Much

Aussie wood floor pro Troy Stanfield had a nightmare job early in his career that taught him a massive lesson about needing to protect himself and his company.

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How I Do These Jobs: Refinishing Decks

Wood floor pro Alex Franklin explains what he's learned while taking on the additional business of refinishing decks.

What’s Something You Used To Do on a Job Site That You Can’t Imagine Doing Now?

We asked wood floor pros to share things they used to do but can't imagine doing on a job site today. Here are some of our favorite responses shared by our readers on the WFB Facebook and Instagram pages.

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Enter the 2026 Wood Floor Business Truck & Van Contest

Blending Personality With Practicality: See the Winners of the 2025 WFB Truck and Van Contest

Get ready to rev your engines and roll into the world of wood flooring pros’ work vehicles. The WFB Truck & Van Contest celebrates pros' trucks and vans with categories for Best Exterior Graphics, Most Organized Interior, Most Unusual Work Vehicle and Biggest Disaster.

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From a Summer Bowling Lane Job to My Own Laser

When Jason Vivash headed to university, his roommates worked for a guy refinishing bowling alleys all summer—and he had no idea that would lead to such an involved career producing his own custom wood floors.

I went from being anti-laser to having a full fine woodworking shop including a new laser-cutting machine.

Check Out These Stories From Wood Floor Pros Who Persevered

The road to being a successful wood flooring pro is often filled with obstacles and challenges, but these pros persevered. Read the stories they shared:

The Personal Connection: How Do You Make Clients Feel?

As hardwood floor pros, we are always striving to use the best products, the latest gear and the newest tech we can get our hands on, but what actually keeps every one of us in business?

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