2020 WFB Contractor Survey: Wood Flooring Pros Share the Details of Their Work Lives

Sep 22, 2020

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For the second time, we asked our contractor readers to tell us the nitty-gritty details of their lives as wood flooring pros. What are their work hours? What safety equipment do they use? Which machine do they use for final sanding before stain? To find out these answers and much more, keep reading. (To find stats regarding their business outlook and more, go to the annual WFB State of the Industry survey from the April/May 2020 issue at wfbmag.co/soi20.)

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We asked you for your stats, and we crunched the numbers to build a profile of the most typical wood flooring contractor working today in the U.S. Here is what the contractor looks like:

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State of the Wood Flooring Industry 2021

When WFB was preparing this section last year, the world had just come to a standstill as the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up around the globe. In the following pages, you will find the results from our survey of wood flooring manufacturers, distributors, retailers and contractors, as they shared with us how this history-making year impacted their businesses. (Results were compiled in February.)

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Following are the results from WFB's exclusive State of the Industry Survey, which the magazine has been doing since 1992. Please note that responses to this survey were collected in late January and early February, when the novel coronavirus was just beginning to be detected in countries outside China. As this issue went to press in mid-March, the coronavirus had been declared a pandemic and was escalating daily.

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State of the Wood Flooring Industry 2019

Although many wood flooring pros feel positive about 2019, others are cautiously watching the predictions for housing this year and tempering their expectations. What else did we find out in our exclusive State of the Industry survey (which we have published since 1992)? To discover more helpful data from wood flooring manufacturers, distributors, retailers and contractors, keep reading.It has been a hectic past seven months for many companies that have relied on importing or exporting Chinese wood flooring for their business. The Trump administration's levy of an additional 10 percent tariff to all types of wood flooring from China in September 2018, with an ongoing threat of increasing it to 25 percent (still unsettled as of press time of this issue), spawned in-kind retaliation from the Chinese government and rattled segments of the wood flooring industry here in the United States. The trade war's impact, suppliers say, could alter the way the industry ticks.

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