The International Wood Flooring Association (IWFA) will host a training school called “Game Changer: Beyond Expert Level Sand and Finishing” March 5–7 at the Jack Walsh Trade Showroom in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Log in to view the full article
The International Wood Flooring Association (IWFA) will host a training school called “Game Changer: Beyond Expert Level Sand and Finishing” March 5–7 at the Jack Walsh Trade Showroom in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Instructors for the three-day course include hardwood flooring masters Howard Brickman of Brickman Consulting and Avedis Duvenjian and Vartan Arutyunian of Archetypal Imagery Corp.
The course will cover master-level sanding techniques, ultra-high-end finishing, designing custom wood floors with colors, color effects, coloring layering, working with metallics, stenciling designs, neutralizing the red in red oak, creating borders and patterns with and without inlays, scaling contracting to boutique manufacturing and prefinishing of custom flooring.
The cost to attend is $650. Students will also receive a set of Vesting LED Oil color samples, a handheld LED curing light, an IWFA T-shirt and a one-year IWFA Contractor Membership.
Sponsors of the event include Norton Abrasives, Titebond, Padco, Castlewood Corporation, American Sanders, Festool, Powernail, Jack Walsh Trade Showroom and Real Wood Floors.
All Things Wood Floor, created by Wood Floor Business magazine, talks to interesting wood flooring pros to share knowledge, stories and tips on everything to do with wood flooring, from installation, sanding and finishing to business management.