Readers Answer: What Scares the Pants Off a Wood Floor Pro?

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8 300 Family Feud 820We asked WFB followers on Facebook and Instagram to tell us what scares the pants off of every wood floor pro. See their responses below ... if you dare.

Mike Wong

Zeus.

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Wesley Elliott

Opening the door you locked the day before after sealing the floor but it was unlocked.

Brian Adams

The painters’ truck in the driveway the morning you pull up to apply your first coat over stain.

Jim Hyde

“Can you hold the check for a few days before you deposit it?”

Brian Richey

“I seen this on the internet.”

Armando Garcia

Open windows and it's been raining all night.

Adam Melonic

"Well, that's not how they did it on YouTube."

Bill Bagley

“But the last flooring company made as many color and species samples as we wanted.”

jameslobawakol

That’ll be a decorator, Steve!

Skip Jones

Hearing a door open when you're coating the floor.

William Harris

"Do you move furniture?”

David Diaz

Customers wanting to mix stain colors.

Kent Chavis

“I‘ve done some sanding and finishing myself.”

Wayne Walker

Litter boxes.

Mauro Morales

“If you can match the existing color the job will be yours.”

Ryan DeGrange

“I put blue tape on all the spots that need fixed”... on the same day that it was coated.

Aaron Goodman

Yellow Post-It notes.

Jorge Perez

“I’m an engineer and wife is a designer”.

William Covington

Workers not showing up because it's summer too hot to handle.

Bob Patterson

Time deadline written in the contract and wood delivery is delayed…

Josh Bingman

OSHA.

Danny Urioste

Homeowner + blue tape = terrifying.

Robert Bassett

Guys coating over spot filler.

Micheal Seeley

Three Huskies.

John Michael

A hissing sound.

Billy Melvin

Forgetting my impromptu stain cup is not my coffee.

Christopher Morrison

Mop n Glo!

James Owen

Filing a lien in the property for non payment.

Jon Weeks Jr.

3 letters... D.O.T.

William Burnam

A Californian with “a vision”…

Bee Ha

Hearing footsteps when you’re at the place alone.

Adam Francomb

The new guy.

soulbrotha09

Getting the bubble guts after already finishing the way to the toilet.

roxanac202

“The stain doesn’t look like the sample.”

franjana147

Showing up to do a final coat finding fish eye everywhere.

brown_oaks_flooring

Watching water-based polyurethane dry.

bellabonch

When someone turns on a fan during the final finish.

fatony9

A helper who likes to drag things.

kahlbomco

Arguing with client/contractor regarding marks in new floor. Because of course I installed a dented or scratched floorboard.

lawsonfloors

A text from the homeowner that only says, "Call me."

floorsbytheshore

Cupped floors.

funguy3n

Rookie sands over any kind of 240 power cord.

reddys_hardwood_flooring

A text at 6 a.m. from an employee…

christieshardwoodflooring

“It probably just needs a light sanding.”

bellabonch

"I was just thinking a buff a coat” when there are three decades of pet stains.

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