2022 WFB Wood Floor Contractor Survey

Oct 5, 2022

We asked you for your stats, and we crunched the numbers to build a profile of the most typical wood flooring contractor working today in the U.S. Here is what the contractor looks like.

How big are your projects? How do you do estimates? How much do you pay workers? How much school did you complete? Below, we present the findings from our exclusive survey where we take a deep dive into the lives of our wood floor contractor readers. How do you compare?

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2024 WFB Wood Floor Contractor Survey

October 3, 2024

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Moving Toward Rewards: The Little Lady I Met in Vegas

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Tales From the Front: The Magically Disappearing Wood Floor Mallet

How Pros Manage Frustration

How Wood Flooring Pros Can Manage Their Tempers and Control Frustration

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Trick of the Trade: A Safe Way to Get a Big Machine Up and Down Stairs

Moving Toward Rewards: The Little Lady I Met in Vegas

In 2024, after years of deliberating, I allowed myself to make a purchase that feels like a reward for years of hard work and toil on wood flooring job sites.

The Little Lady

Tales From the Front

Tales From the Front: The Magically Disappearing Wood Floor Mallet

Josh Frink, territory manager for Florida at Bona US, got his start at age 15 with his dad on a job he’ll never forget after missing the nailer with his mallet.

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How Wood Flooring Pros Can Manage Their Tempers and Control Frustration

Wood flooring contractors know that when you are working with the general public all day every day, you can encounter some difficult personalities. Here are 10 points elaborating on how contractors can manage their tempers.

How Pros Manage Frustration

Tricks of the Trade

Trick of the Trade: A Safe Way to Get a Big Machine Up and Down Stairs

Casey Ditsworth at Woodshed Flooring Inc. in Pearl City, Ill., explains why he believes his Magliner stair-climbing dolly for getting the big machine up and down stairs is worth the investment.

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How I Learned the Hard Way What the IRS Can Do

Mike Dittmer has always taken a very serious stance with paying business taxes correctly in his wood flooring business because of something that happened when he was 20 years old.

Like many wood flooring pros, my parents did the books for the family wood flooring business themselves—until someone from the IRS arrived at our house to audit them and my dad was faced with going to prison.

2024 WFB Wood Floor Contractor Survey

Here are the results from Wood Floor Business's exclusive survey of wood flooring contractors, asking about everything from tools to how customers pay.

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Wood Flooring Contractors' Real-Life Ghost Stories

Wood flooring pros share real-life experiences with the paranormal while on job sites.

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Tales From the Front: A Real Wood Floor Ghost Story

Brandon Dudek of Vivid Hardwood Flooring LLC had a big Brazilian cherry job where he realized that even though the house was empty and locked, he was not alone.

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He Left My Company After Four Years. I’m Incredibly Proud.

The biggest picture on my work van is of Kevin, my apprentice who left my company last year to pursue some personal goals and learn new things. I was asked recently how I felt about having his photo on my van, and this was my response.

Does it bother me that an employee who left my company is still pictured on the side of my van? No, quite the opposite.

How I 'Keep the Love Alive' After Decades of Doing Wood Floors

For wood floor pro Angelo DeSanto, keeping the love alive for the wood flooring craft is a deliberate effort, and he has four key motivators.

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Wood Flooring Health 101: An OT’s Advice to Reduce Injuries and Prevent Pain

Wood flooring mechanics are what we call "industrial athletes"; so it's important to train like an athlete and put the advice in this article to use to work longer and with less pain.

Photos courtesy of wood flooring pros James Kramer, Alejandre Israel, Darin Grimes, Gregory Brown, Erick Pilier, Ken Ballin, Kent Rogerson, Jorge Perez, Benny Powell, Ed Sheridan, Pat Goodman, Lenny Hall and Mike Somodean.

Starting a Career in Wood Flooring? First, Find Out Who You Are

Stephen Diggins offers some advice: Starting a career in wood flooring? Seriously, first find out who YOU are. Where YOU excel. What are YOUR given talents and special gifts?

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