Readers Respond: What Sayings Do Only Other Wood Floor Pros Understand?

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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.


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