Dennis Cudd
Rockwell 346!
Ben Osborne
Map.
Jared Smith
Phone book for direction and a lambswool.
Dave Mitchell Jr.
We used to do repairs with a chisel before the multi tool came out. Also, the 6-inch commodore brush for oil.
Mike Butler
Manual floor cleater. Learning how to switch hands and still drive the nail in without hitting the wall was the challenge.
Robbie Prevatt
Moisture cure urethane with 6-inch brush for many years, lol.
Wesley Goetz
Fabulon looks Fabulous on Floors.
T.J. Haas
Any piece of bowling sanding equipment.
Brian Adams
Cutting our own edger discs!
Steven Triplett Jr.
Flush cut saw to hand saw door jams.
Keith Christopherson
The homeowner’s telephone.
Joe Burkhart
I can remember when the wood came bundled and held together with metal straps.
Josh Hansman
I remember buying a 5-gallon metal pail of oil-based poly.
Chris Kritzer
Coated the whole floor with these when we started for Baka sealer or poly over stain same day back in the ’90s.
James Webb
Bag- and vacuum-less toe kick edger.
Mitchell Canter
A buffer on water-based.
William Burnam
Lacquer for a first coat if they wanted it to look as natural as possible … then Pacific Strong came out and water-based was born.
Randy Golaszewski Sr.
Pre-drilling wood flooring in order to nail it down by hand under cabinets.
Ron Teljeur
- Model 45 nailer
- Original Crain undercutter (skilsaw body)
- Power-mallet and manual Cavanaugh nailers
- sanding without a buffer
- drill and nail finishing rows.
William Burnam
We used a Rand McNally map, a Xerox machine and a highlighter to create a map with directions to the house, stapled to the work order to give to the driver. And we used Motorola high-end radios to talk with the office and occasionally each other when getting around town in case we got lost. M&M Floors in Falls Church, Virginia, at the time.
Mauro Morales
Alligator clips to get 220 out on the fuse box.
Bobby Finch
Flush cut saw and t&g glue laminate. Oak door jambs sucked with that saw!
George Pritchard
Brace and bits, backsaws, and miter boxes, hand planes, and also scratch awls!!!
Michael Schuetz
Manual undercut saw for door trim.
Jaymes Rinker
Learned to edge on a Lager Randmister.
Howard Brickman
Durafinish and Natural Duraseal (had water in the formula) AND reels of No. 2 Steel Wool.
John Westphal
Spreading oil poly with a lambs wool mop.
Quality Floor Refinishing
Hand-nailing maple bowling lanes with case hardened screw nails.
Kenny Williams
Manual cleat nailer. A Cavanaugh nailer. I know most won't even know what that is.
Anton Djokic
Five gallons of Basic Coatings oil for less than $50.
Micheal Seeley
Lägler Elf.
Rob Hayes
A hammer and nail set!
Noah Bailey
Black tar mastic!
Rick LaJoy
Lacquer and fine saw dust for fill.
Bill Bagley
Franklin adhesive.
D.r. Mawhinney
A 2x4x8 was a $1.00 at lumber yards.
Mark McClenahan
Cut nails
Dan Portu
An Electrolux torpedo vacuum!
Shawn Hegwood
1958 Clark 10 in split drum.
Michael Settlemyre
Nextel.
Nueraflooring
Crommelins Deva Drum Sander. #2001.
Cashpyle_loba_wakol
Casing nails.
Empire_wood_floors
Bona Strong.
frink_josh
Wooden mallet to bang out edger paper.
Star30north
Silverline.
Habitatfloors
Ceno Satellite.
Hardwoodman_
“Goop on” floor filler.
Martyd_83
Small bucket of steel cut nails for rips in maple in skating rinks and gymnasiums. Cause the boss said so.
Davidson_wood_flooring
Red Devil polyurethane, Pacific Strong and paste wax.
Traditional_floors
Cadillac vac.
Molitor_traditional_flooring
Pacific floor cleaner.
Oldschool_hyde
Screw nails and finish nails in an apron, black hands from bluing on the nails.
Soulbrotha09
Power nail top nailer to nail base shoe.
Floorsbydannyd
Hand sand 36 grit to get the edger marks out.
Smithflooringco
Shellac/cut nails.
Cottonwoodfinishesllc
Toekick saw. That thing came so close to cutting the tendon in my thigh. Never again.
All_0riginal
Trip Trap.
Customfloorsunlimited
Analog radios like police still use. We were one of the first companies that had real company-wide communication. Lots of funny stories because we could only have two channels and everyone heard anything said. Even builders, architect designers and homeowners. Lol.
Ryebread75
Edger with dust bag.
Genericwaterborne_gene
Buffing stain with 00 steel wool and hand sanding the butt ends with 60 (half)—not in that order.
Trumanhardwoodfloorservices
Low-speed buffer.
jnrconstruction 951
Thomas Guide to find my way around.
Natureshardwoods
Japanese undercut saw and a chisel for undercutting door jams! Popeye arms for days.
David.shafer512
4-pound mini sledgehammer.
Chill_dave
Lacquer sealer used for first coat on natural.
Williambillb19
Bethlehem nails for Cavanaugh nailer, Superior nail hole filler, that was before Goop On.
