Thousands of Dollars in Prizes to be Given Away at NWFA Expo

Along with valuable networking, education, technical demonstrations and hundreds of exhibitors, there's another compelling reason to attend the 2012 NWFA Wood Flooring Expo: To have a chance at winning some of the thousands of dollars in prizes that will be given to attendees.

Some of the prizes will be given away at the Demo Theater, where an all-star group of instructors will share their wisdom on all aspects of the trade. Here is a list of the prizes, with the sponsor in parentheses:

• Safety kit (3M)
• Room of wood (Aacer)
• $50 gift card from Best Buy (Absolute Coatings)
• Cases of Avenue waterbased finish (Arboritec)
• Cases of Street Shoe (Basic Coatings)
• Sets of knee pads (Beno J. Gundlach Company)
• Dust Containment System (Bona US)
• Buckets of Ultra Set Single Step (Bostik Inc.)
• T-shirts (Chemque)
• $100 gift certificate for medallion (Cherryhill)
• Buffer (Clarke American Sanders)
• Room of wood (Dean Hardwoods)
• J-Lite moisture meters (Delmhorst)
• 960 ft. of Dricore product (Dricore)
• Repair kits for engineered, solid and bamboo flooring (DriTac Flooring Products)
• Gallons of DuraClear (DuraSeal)
• Easy Groove cutters and inlay pattern bit (Easy Groove Tooling)
• Dust Extractor vacuum and guide rail for saw (Festool)
• Rolls of Aquabar (Fortifiber)
• XL T-shirts (Grillworks)
• Hand scrappers (Hardwood Industry Products)
• Room of wood (Johnson Premium Hardwood Flooring)
• Case of Lenmar finish (Lenmar)
• RH Data Finder (Lignomat)
• Room of wood (Maxwell Hardwood Flooring)
• Jig and book (CP Wood Floors)
• Cases of finish (Poloplaz)
• Power Jack 500 and nailer (Powernail)
• Polo shirt and cap (Nano Shield)
• Pneumatic gun, case of Sika Skim Coat and unit of Primer B (Sika Corp.)
• Room of wood (Somerset Wood Products)
• Tool kits and stapler (Stanley-Bostich)
• Pails of PUM950 urethane adhesive (Stauf Adhesives USA LLC)
• Polo shirt and T-shirts (UFloor)
• Pails MonoCoat Oil (W•D Flooring)
• MMC-220 moisture meter with 7-year warranty (Wagner Meters)
• Stair jigs (Woodwise/Design Hardwood Products)
• $250 school certificate (NWFA).

Those who miss a prize at the Demo Theater will still have a chance to win during the Closing Party Happy Hour, which will take place right on the Expo floor from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday. The grand prize will be a brand-new motorcycle from Harley-Davidson, and the following companies will also give away wares:

• Safety kit (3M)
• Two-night hotel comp. (Gaylord Palms)
• Roll of Ultra 6 or 15 (Fortifiber)
• $100 gift card (Franklin International)
• $200 in Disney Bucks (Glitsa, a division of Rudd Co.)
• Room of wood (Goodwin Heart Pine)
• Gift bag (Homerwood Hardwood)
• Trio (Lagler)
• $100 gift card (Lenmar)
• 1 RH Data Finder (Lignomat)
• Gift Card (MAPEI Corp.)
• Room of wood (Middle Tennessee Lumber)
• Room of wood (Somerset Flooring)
• 1 MMC220 moisture meter with 7-year warranty (Wagner Meters)
• 1 case of finish (Waterlox Coatings)
• 2 stair jigs (Woodwise/Design Hardwood Products)
• iPad (The Net Impact).

This year's wood flooring expo has been totally re-launched. Along with the nearly sold out trade show, the event will feature a keynote address from Ken Schmidt, a former Harley executive, on April 11. And if that wasn't enough, HGTV star Carter Oosterhouse will host this year's Wood Floor of the Year awards on April 12.