Caption Contest Winner: ‘Five Guys on One Plank’

Apr 1, 2016

The winner of the Hardwood Floors magazine “Five Guys on One Plank” caption contest is Mark Freece of East Penn Hardwood Flooring in Allentown, Pa.

For his pluck, Freece receives a Hardwood Floors T-shirt and his name in the April/May 2016 issue of Hardwood Floors magazine (read the digital issue here).

Freece’s winning caption, as voted on by the readers of HF E-News:

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The second and third place captions were:

“That's right folks! Four out of five flooring installers recommend Rogaine.”

“Boy these people really got a bargain on this $0.99 wood floor and it only takes five of us to get it together. They know they're paying each of us by the hour right?!”

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