Low-balling, haggling, squabbling over an unpaid invoice-these are timeless themes for a wood flooring installer and a GC. In the November 1931 issue of Flooring magazine, one Counsellor Samuel Natapoff wrote two poems on these ideas, and they were later reprinted in a retrospective booklet published by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based McGrevor Coatings. They are aptly titled "A Builder's Complaint" and "The Floorlayer's Reply."
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