Sunshine Floor Supplies (Bridgeport, Conn.) hosted a sold out National Wood Flooring Association Intermediate Sand & Finish school May 17–20.
The four-day training school provided extensive hands-on training for sanding and finishing wood floors at an intermediate level. The school was taught by Toby Merrill, owner of McHenry, Ill.-based Walk on Wood and an NWFA Regional Instructor.
In addition to Merrill, the instructors were Allen Nery, Rubio Monocoat; Jim Schumacher, 3M; John Armfield, Woca USA; Kellie Hawkins, Waterlox Corp.; Larry Smith, Basic Coatings; Mike Farrell, American Sanders; Mike Overy, Bona US; Steve Bewsher, Duraseal; Tim Nathan, General Finishes; and Tom Zagula, Loba-Wakol;
The students were Rafael Oliveira, Afford-A-Floor; Roberto Lima, Bobby's Hardwood Floors; Diego Bohrer, Bohrere Wood Floors; Juan Valle and Ernesto Valle, Ernesto Wood Floors; Vijay Mangal, Mangal Wood Floors; Tony Pagan and Ray Valentin, New York Flooring Inc.; Paulo Brazerra and Joni DaSilva, Prestige Wood Floors LLC; Bob Quale, Quale Property Maintenance; Guilherme Pereira, Rubio Monocoat USA LLC; Alice Abagiu, Robert Lotzko and Vera Vaz, Sunshine Floor Supplies Inc.; and Meredith Kilpatrick, Woca USA.
University-level sponsors—companies that donated $3,500 to NWFA education in 2016—were 3M, Advantech, Bona US, Bostik Inc., DuraSeal, Titebond, Lägler, Loba-Wakol LLC, Middle Tennessee Lumber Co., Primatech Inc., Wagner Meters and Weyerhaeuser Company.
Academy-level sponsors—companies that donated $1,500 to NWFA education in 2016—were Allegheny Mountain Hardwood, Basic Coatings, Delmhorst Instrument Company, Fortifiber Building Systems Group, Mannington Mills, MAPEI Corporation, Rubio Monocoat, Rust-Oleum Corp., Somerset Wood Products Inc., Timbermate Group and Woca USA.
Other companies that donated materials or helped set up the school included Jungle Jim Tools and Vermont Wide Plank.
