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

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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:

Jimmy Grady

Hand-nail the first and last three rows.

Attila Nagy

Sanding and finishing for $2 a square foot.

Jason Rotter

Coating on hands and knees with 6-inch brush.

Jeffrey Odachowski

Staining by hand.

Alan Lovstad

Hand-scraping all the edges where the edger went when you have to do a stain job.

Alex Franklin

Definitely running a hardplate on my buffer. I still have one, but I don’t use it very much.

Daniel Springer

Buffing a floor with a 16-inch hardplate. Using a maroon pad with 100-grit on a Super7 instead of palm-sanding. Buffing after 60-grit.

Chris Bailey

Hand-wiping stain.

Mark Hanes

Actually screening a floor with a screen.

Patrick J. Russell

Sweep.

Aaron Goodman

Tacking up the insane dust with mineral spirits so it would clump up into something we could sweep up. Don’t miss those days.

Brad Moore

Edging with a bag and coating with a lambswool.

Rob Johnson

Pounding out edger paper.

Michael Gwin

Working without a dust collection system.

Devan Hale

Hand-abrading a floor for final coat.

Pete Helton Jr.

Sanding floors off a temporary power pole in the yard.

Mike Wong

Rotozip for lacing in.

Jim Hyde

Going number 2 in a bucket or a box. There was no such thing as a porta-potty.

David Kartinen

Using old-school dust bags instead of dust containment. My lungs will last longer.

Clinton Duff

Applying stain without gloves.

Steven Triplett Jr.

Hand-sawing door jambs.

Kyle Meeks

Starting a fire on the job site to burn all the big machine dust.

Michael R. Leonzal

Listening to someone else tell me what to do.

Marc Antonuccio

Watching the finish dry.

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