Some families pass down jewelry or antique furniture—but one of wood floor pro Nicole Guerra’s prized heirlooms is an old urethane bucket. The heavily congealed bucket, which weighs around eight pounds empty, belonged to her father, David Durr, who ran San Rafael, Calif.-based Victorian Hardwood Floors before retiring several years ago after nearly 50 years in the trade. “I can’t tell you how many floors this bucket has seen, but the ‘icicles’ speak for themselves,” says Guerra, who runs Novato, Calif.-based Pure Wood Floors with her husband, Xavier Guerra. Nicole Guerra has also inherited several 1950s Cavanaugh nailers, among other tools, from her father, but there was something special about the years of hard work frozen in time on the storied bucket. “It’s pretty much a work of art,” Guerra writes, “so I couldn’t let him throw it away.”
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