The NWFA hosted a four-day Advanced Installation school at its headquarters in Chesterfield, Mo., last week.
School participants learned advanced design and layout elements of a wood floor installation, how to install design and install parquet patterns, fit patterns and designs to the space, bend wood and develop jigs to create hand-made medallions, among other skills.
These lessons were taught while the class installed 2,400 square feet of floor in a parquet pattern. Check out the time-lapse below:
Instructors at the Advanced Installation school were NWFA Regional Instructor Keith Long, Thunderheart Flooring LLC; Wayne Lee, Middle Tennessee Lumber; John Alford, A Step Above Flooring & Installations; Rich Olsen, Just Around The Corner Inc.; Marla Jakovljevic, Pasadena Wood Floors Inc.; and Charles Couch, Oregon Lumber Company.
The students were Toby Merril, Walk on Wood; John Kimminau, Kimminau Floor Company; Marcos Proti, CMC Hardwood Floors; Allen Townsell, ECMD Distribution; and Charles Lee, Lumber Mart Sdn. Bhd.
Manufacturers that donated to the school were Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring, Oregon Lumber Company, Maxwell Hardwood Flooring, Miller & Company, Anthony Oak Flooring, Middle Tennessee Lumber, Rare Earth Hardwood, Sika Corporation, Franklin Adhesives & Polymers, MAPEI Corp., Bostik, Stauf USA Inc., Weyerhaeuser Company, Powernail Company, Primatech, 3M, Fortifiber Building Systems Group, Festool and Beno J. Gundlach.
