The NWFA held an Intermediate Installation, Sand and Finish school in Las Vegas on Sept. 26-28, as well as a Field Equipment Repair workshop on Sept. 29; the association's Director of Technical Training Frank Kroupa led the instruction during both sessions. New for this school, the NWFA organized a demo hour on Wednesday evening for students to see new products, and Scott Avery held an education session on marketing (he also later wrote about his experience for the HF Contractor Blog).
The following assisted during the installation school, and those marked with an asterisk assisted during the repair workshop, as well:
- Brett Miller (Basic Coatings)
- Roger Barker (Fortifiber)
- Scott Avery (Modern Tech Floors LLC)
- Brett Butler (Lenmar)
- Cort Dunlap (Bamboo & Hardwood Inspections)
- Avi Hadad (Avi's Hardwood Floors)
- Pat Cooney* (Bona US)
- Ken Tran (Flash UV)
- Hunter Culbert-Steele (Raincoast Floors)
- Matt Crawford (Clarke American)
- Scott Greenwood* (Powernail Company)
- Don Smithson* (J & D Smithson Repairs)
- Jennifer Hansen (3M)
- Dean Hultman (Hultman's Flooring)
- Ed Reyes (DuraSeal)
- Russ Watts* (Lägler)
These students completed the school, and those marked with an asterisk completed the repair workshop, as well:
- Ryan Davis*, Jake Millwee* and Adam Shaw* (Adam's Hardwood Flooring)
- Levon Karatetyan* (ArtexFlooring Inc.)
- Gilmar Marcelino (Avalon Carpet and Tile)
- Jarrod Amburgey* (Bailey Floor Company)*
- Eric Kurtz (Bostik Inc.)
- George Chibani (Chibani Wood Floors)
- Gabriel Vega (Custom Installations)
- Nick Lux* (D-Lux Hardwood Floors)
- Damon Keller* (Enterprise Flooring)
- Kenny Hodges, Ed Mitchell, Van Tran and Gabe Zamorano (Flash UV)
- Charles-Edward Graham (Herwynen Saw Mill)
- Kevin Arney (Hultman Flooring, Inc.)
- John Tarantola (John's Floor Care)
- Jerod Juarez (Juarez Hardwood Flooring)
- Gregory Koop (K 2 Flooring)
- Rich Shukri (Majestic Floors Inc.)
- Ken Malsky (Malsky Hardwood Flooring)
- John Brown, Shawn Millman and Pete Robitaille (MAPEI Corp.)
- Jose Silva (Master Tiler LLC)
- Andrew Douglas (Modern Tech Floors LLC)
- Dan Edralin* (MU Hardwood Flooring)
- Thomas Hoffmeyer and Melissa Hoffmeyer (Property Care Hardwood Floors)
- Thomas Hocevar (Rustoleum, Inc.)
- Chris Simmonds (Summit Custom Hardwood)
- Chris Guidera* and Patrick Guidera* (The Flooring Connection LLC)
- Toh Tuck Tong* (The Woodcrafters Pte. Ltd.)
- Thang Lam (TLC Premier Flooring)
- Vanderlei Carneiro (Vanderlei Carneiro)
- Kellie Hawkins (Waterlox Coatings)
Dustin Chiocchi and Jason Mahita (Phillip's Hardwood Floors Inc.) completed just the repair workshop, and Hadad completed the repair workshop, as well. Last, these companies served as Partners in Education for the school and workshop:
- Basic Coatings (Toledo, Ohio)
- Fortifiber Building Systems Group (Fernley, Nev.)
- Lenmar (Baltimore) Bamboo & Hardwood Inspections (Granite Falls, Wash.)
- Bona US (Aurora, Colo.)
- Clarke American Sanders (Plymouth, Minn.)
- Powernail Company Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.)
- 3M (St. Paul)
- DuraSeal (Chagrin Falls, Ohio)
- Eugen Lägler GmbH (Guglingen, Germany)
- Rode Bros. Floors (Los Angeles)
- Oshkosh Designs (Winneconne, Wis.)
- Wagner Meters (Rogue River, Ore.)
- Lignomat USA Ltd.
- Delmhorst Instrument Co. (Towaco, N.J.)
- Easy Groove Tooling LLC (Edmonds, Wash.)
- Waterlox Coatings Corporation (Cleveland)
- Palo Duro Hardwoods Inc. (Denver)
- Modern Tech Floors LLC (Portland, Ore.)
- Avi's Hardwood Floors Inc. (El Sobrante, Calif.)
- Flash UV LLC (Peoria, Ariz.)
- Raincoast Floors (Vancouver, B.C.)
- J & D Smithson Repairs (Northern California)
- Hultman Flooring Inc. (Porter, Ind.)
- Revolution Manufacturing LLC (Eau Claire, Wis.)
