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Introducing the Winners of the 2025 WFB Design Awards

Photos courtesy of (clockwise from top left): Aaron Hall, Ash Stuart Smith, Danny Caffo, Pietro Corrao Parquet, Pat Goodman, Nicole Stanfield, Joe Smith; (center): Sarunas Gintvainis.

Planetary and Multi-Disc Sanders 101: A Technical Primer

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What To Do When a Customer Backs Out of a Contract

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Introducing the Winners of the 2025 WFB Design Awards

Each winner of the 2025 WFB Design Awards exhibits dedication and passion for wood flooring craftsmanship. These award-winning projects showcase the achievements of wood flooring pros and their unique visions that transform flooring into works of art.

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Planetary and Multi-Disc Sanders 101: A Technical Primer

Lifelong wood flooring pro T.J. Haas found a lot of people hadn’t actually used or experienced multi-discs and planetary sanders for wood floors, so he put together this primer on the different types of machines.

Photos courtesy of (clockwise from top left): Aaron Hall, Ash Stuart Smith, Danny Caffo, Pietro Corrao Parquet, Pat Goodman, Nicole Stanfield, Joe Smith; (center): Sarunas Gintvainis.

What To Do When a Customer Backs Out of a Contract

Contractors often spend hours discussing a new project with a customer before they sign a contract and commit to moving forward. Unfortunately, some customers still change their minds and back out before the contractor gets started.

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Enter the 2025 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards

Are you a wood flooring retailer who goes above and beyond? Enter the 2025 WFB Outstanding Retailer Awards.

Extraordinary Floors

Home's Floors Become Giant Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle

Florence, Ky.-based Grain Design Flooring transformed a Cincinnati, Ohio, home into a giant wooden jigsaw puzzle.

The project included 915 square feet of the unusual wood flooring.

How We Did This Floor: Edge-Grain in the Portland International Airport

Approximately 57,000 square feet of the Portland International Airport now has local edge-grain white oak wood flooring with an oil finish—a massive undertaking, even for a company like Pure Floors Inc. This is how they did it.

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A Key to Better Sanding: Know Your Scratch

Wood floor sanding expert Daniel Boone explains what some wood floor pros are missing when they say they "can't get the scratches out."

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Meet the Winners of the 2024 Ultimate Wood Floor Guy & Gal Contest

WFB is honored to introduce the winners of the 2024 Ultimate Wood Floor Guy & Gal Contest: Patrick Russell and Jessica Hall. Read about how they go above and beyond in their craft.

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Domestic Species for Wood Flooring 101: What Pros Should Know

Lifelong wood flooring pro Bob Goldstein discusses helpful advice for installing, sanding and finishing the most common domestic wood flooring species.

Photo credits clockwise from top left: Rift-and-quartered select red oak from Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring and installed by Ron Doran, hickory/pecan by Robert Welp, white oak by Aaron Hall, cherry refinished by Alex Ramirez, maple by Adrian Molitor, ash by Chris Hodges. Center: Walnut by Jamie Espinoza.

Herringbone Reinvented: Panelizing for Stress-Free Floors

Herringbone floors are stunning and elegant, but installing them piece by piece can be slow, tedious and prone to frustrating misalignments. Fortunately, there’s a better way: panelizing.

I’ve found that panelizing sections of herringbone with face tape makes installation faster and less error-prone.

Enter the 2025 Wood Floor Business Design Awards

Wood Floor Business is now accepting submissions for its 2025 Design Awards—the only wood flooring design contest open to the entire wood flooring industry.

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2024 WFB Wood Floor Contractor Survey

Here are the results from Wood Floor Business's exclusive survey of wood flooring contractors, asking about everything from tools to how customers pay.

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