WFB asked followers on Facebook and Instagram about what wood floor pros always say that only other wood floor pros would understand. Here’s how they responded:
Josh Hansman
F-ing Shake.
Jacob Sheldrick
Ch-ch-ch-chatter.
Eric Nylin
Spinner (edger), Block (buffer).
Ron Teljeur
Rough cut.
Eric Nylin
One cut it…
Steve Heineken
3/16” in 10’ or 1/8 in 6’ “Learn it. Know it. Live it.”
Patrick Smith
Back Digs / Drummie / Tiger Marks / Hook Marks / Skips, Holiday / Peppered.
Can tell I've done a lot of training lately. 🫣
Dave Mitchell Jr.
Hot coat.
Ron Hardwood
Nice H.
Pioneer Hardwood Floor Restoration LLC
Go pull down the steps.
Elise Jenna Djurinovich
Orange peel, drum mark, wood flour cement, heart pine not “heart of pine,” big machine.
Ed Sheridan
Chalk the line down the middle, we're running both ways.
Leonard A. Hall
“Leave the line.”
Rob Hayes
Fill that space before someone falls in it!
Freeland McGuire
Pine sands itself.
Charles Carroll
That wasn’t the floor popping, it was my knees.
Mike Somodean
Right to left is wrong.
Nick Spano
To the new help: “Get the board stretcher out of the van, please.”
Bob Stewart
Putty is your buddy. 😆
Karla Contreras
Look at the stair stepping.
Nick Spano
You can blow smoke through that red oak.
Jim Clarey
Unfortunately, this is all wrong.
Paul Alexander
This house is chopped up.
Jim Hyde
Hook those corners.
Ross Carson
“It'll buff” or “It'll come out in the wash.”
Masterpiece Floors
It will scrape out.
Johnny Rodriguez
Tighten the lid.
Luke Biello
Post-it notes everywhere!
Jake Schlichte
Acclimation has nothing to do with time.
Christopher Parat
Give it the ole one cut wonder.
Angel Olalde
Ugh….I got me a holiday. 😑
Jerry Burt
Roughed out…☕️
Saunders Wood Floors
Just gonna give it a scrape and a poly.
Mark Crooks
Nice picture frame.
Mike Peterson
Pull the corners.
Tom Michael Ourada
So many H’s.
Ed Reneau
Rough out the holes and fill them.
Patrick J. Russell
Lots of corners to pull in this house.
Chris Kritzer
Look at that chatter, or is it a wave?
T.J. Haas
“Motherf***er.” It doesn't carry the same weight from a drywall guy.
Jay Quinene
Pull your lines!
Feather that!
Hot coat it!
Scrape it out!
Watch those joints!
Leave my line!
Tie that room up!
Lace that in!
Put a header there!
Glue it and shoot it!
Crazy wrap around!
Drop that vent in!
Jeff Munsch
Sand out the orange peels.
Freeland McGuire
It's a gummer!!!
Travis Morse
You gotta feather it.
Joe Dawson
36, 60, 80, 100.
Nathan Kelly
It’s powdering nicely.
Alan Lovstad
Slick the floor.
Rob Chewning
Pop it.
Joseph Martinez
Slip tongue.
Tim Burkholder
Give me an endow!
Bradley Kidder
Dust life.
Michael McDermott
Time to Bosch.
Mauro Morales
Wet sand.
Jerry Chieng
Edge curl.
David Merrill
BM.
Steven Triplett Jr.
45 it.
Johnny Rodriguez
“Avoid stairsteps.” 😝🤷🏾♂️
Larry E. Clucas
Dish out.
Bill Powell III
Straight wall
Crosswall
Line of sight
F*@# that closet.
Glenn Harris
Chatters.
DM Hardwood Designs
Shut up and scrape! 🤪
Lisa-Jane Fudge
#fudgeflat.
Nicholas C Maxson
This pine is shaking.
Neal Garcia
Cross it.
Jack Gilliam
Feather in…feather out…
Wesley Elliott
Water popping.
hardwoodman_
Sand this floor with 2 1/2, 1 1/2, 1/2 00 and burnish it.
brown_oaks_flooring
Scrape that off.
floorrestoreandmore
Flat is required, level is desired!
oldschool_hyde
It's not a miss, it's a skip.
tonyrod231
It just needs a screen and coat.
seanfloors
“Yeah, that's not going anywhere!” ** Checking security after you strap something on your ladder rack. 👍🏻
pioneerhardwood
Is it a three prong or four?
durasealdave
Those are refer boards.
cottonwoodfinishesllc
Floor's got a lot of soft grain dish out.
cottonwoodfinishesllc
Catalyze the 2k, but don't touch the aziridine.
genericwaterborne_gene
“You need to go back to that house and fix those holidays they called about.”
kelleyswoodfloors
You gonna retire making that cut?
black_star_wood
I don’t hear the machine running.
manzionehardwoodflooring
Forty, sixty, hundred.
ds_hardwood_flooring
Rack and roll.
markmeidra_woodfloorpro
Powderpost Beetles. 😵💫
dylon808
Finish Fridays.
jimdevins
You missed a spot!!!!
irbflooring
See those spinner marks, you need to get that.
allaround_flooring
Sander will fix it.
sgv_hardwoodfloors
Break out the “open coat.”
jeremylorsung
Power Drive or Trio those chatter marks!!
tenmilehardwoods
Telling the installer, “Don’t worry, the finish guy is going to make you look good.”
dmhrdwd
Pound sand.