Back in his contracting days, Josh Frink (now corporate accounts manager at Basic Coatings) left two helpers on a job to finish up putting a coat of shellac quick-dry sealer on a wood floor while he went to get the poly for the following coats. The helpers coated a set of stairs and an upper foyer with the shellac sealer and only then realized they had painted themselves into a corner and couldn't use the steps. "When I returned with the poly, they had both climbed out a window and were sitting on the edge of the roof of the house laughing like crazy, buzzed out of their minds daring each other to jump off. They had not been wearing their respirators," Frink recalls. "They had a really nice headache by the end of the job." But that wasn't all, Frink says: "It was a bad week: A few days after they were buzzed and contemplating jumping off the roof, they put a Square Buff sander in my trailer without emptying the dust bag. On the drive home this guy pulls up beside us and is hollering, 'Hey man, your trailer is on fire!'" Frink says that thankfully they weren't hurt, but "it made me realize not to let them take the simple things for granted, like wearing a respirator and emptying a dust bag."
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Back in his contracting days, Josh Frink (now corporate accounts manager at Basic Coatings) left two helpers on a job to finish up putting a coat of shellac quick-dry sealer on a wood floor while he went to get the poly for the following coats. The helpers coated a set of stairs and an upper foyer with the shellac sealer and only then realized they had painted themselves into a corner and couldn't use the steps. "When I returned with the poly, they had both climbed out a window and were sitting on the edge of the roof of the house laughing like crazy, buzzed out of their minds daring each other to jump off. They had not been wearing their respirators," Frink recalls. "They had a really nice headache by the end of the job." But that wasn't all, Frink says: "It was a bad week: A few days after they were buzzed and contemplating jumping off the roof, they put a Square Buff sander in my trailer without emptying the dust bag. On the drive home this guy pulls up beside us and is hollering, 'Hey man, your trailer is on fire!'" Frink says that thankfully they weren't hurt, but "it made me realize not to let them take the simple things for granted, like wearing a respirator and emptying a dust bag."
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