NWFA/MFMA Wood Flooring Basics Class Features Open House

The National Wood Flooring Association and Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association presented their Wood Flooring Basics class at the NWFA headquarters in St. Louis Sept. 10-13. Students learned the fundamentals of preparing, installing, sanding and finishing solid and engineered floors. After class on Sept. 11, NWFA presented an open house for manufacturer representatives to talk with students and area distributors, retailers and contractors about their products.

Brett Miller, NWFA's director of certification and education, led the class with the help of the following instructors:

• Matt Crawford (Clarke American Sanders)
• Brent Davidson (Connor Sport Court International)
• Cort Dunlap (M.T.E. North America Inc.)
• Dave Erickson (UFloor Systems Inc.)
• Robert Goldstein (Vermont Natural Coatings)
• William Harrington (Baker Hardwood Flooring Company)
• Gene Jarka (Powernail Company Inc.)
• Wayne Lee (Middle Tennessee Lumber)
• Keith Long (Thunderheart Flooring LLC)
• Tim Moore (Moore & Neville Inc Flooring Inspections)
• Bill Ptak (DuraSeal)
• Bob Sponamore (All Type Hardwood Flooring)

The following students completed the basic course:

• Daniel Arnautov (RemCorp)
• Alan Arrazcaeta (J. Rapaport Wood Flooring)
• Nick Barton (The Master's Craft)
• Eric Brungardt (Pacific Floor Covering)
• Raushanah Butler (Chattahoochee Technical College)
• Chad Cornish (Neufeldt's Flooring)
• Brian Dikes (Basic Coatings)
• Frank Fehringer (Canada Nufloors Group Inc.)
• David Hadidian (Bay Shore Cleaning & Restoration)
• Khoa Hoang (Hoang Wood Floors)
• Trevor Johnson (Paramount Flooring)
• Tyler LaForest (Above the Rest Floors and More LLC)
• Alice McCann (Armstrong World Industries)
• Tim McClintock (The Master's Craft)
• Karly McMillan (Hardwood Floors Magazine)
• James McVie (Heritage Wide Plank Flooring-RBS Company)
• Fred Miller (Weyerhaeuser Company)
• Yamini Patel (Sherwin Williams)
• Grant Perry (Lanham Hardwood Flooring Co. Inc.)
• Louis Saliba (Sherwin Williams)
• Dan Best (The Master's Craft)
• Sasha Zhila (M.T.E. North America Inc.)

The following companies provided the products, instructors and materials that made the class possible:

• 3M
• All Type Hardwood Flooring
• Baker Hardwood Flooring Company
• Clarke American Sanders
• Delmhorst Instrument Co.
• DuraSeal
• Fortifiber Building Systems Group
• Infinity Wood Floors
• Johnson Premium Hardwood Flooring
• Lignomat USA Ltd.
• Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association
• M.T.E. North America Inc.
• Middle Tennessee Lumber
• Mullican Flooring
• Powernail Company Inc.
• Thunderheart Flooring LLC
• UFloor Systems Inc.
• Vermont Natural Coatings
• W.D. Flooring
• Wagner Meters

The following companies sponsored the networking open house on Sept. 11:

• Basic Coatings
• DuraSeal
• Fortifiber Building Systems Group
• Middle Tennessee Lumber
• Powernail Company Inc.
• UFloor Systems Inc.

The NWFA will hold its Weeklong Workshops, an a la carte educational opportunity, in Los Angeles Sept. 23-28, in Houston Oct. 14-19 and in St. Louis Oct. 28-Nov. 2. The association will also present its second Wood Flooring Technology Class with Chattahoochee Technical College Oct. 8-10 in Marietta, Ga. For more information and registration for any of these classes, contact Tricia Swindoll by phone at (636) 736-5215 or by email at [email protected].