Wood Floor Business surveyed wood flooring pros on Facebook from April 10–12 to ask them how business was going during the pandemic amid many mandated business closures and shelter-in-place orders. The survey found that 82% of pros either aren't working or have experienced a slowdown in work. Here are the full results:
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Wood Floor Business surveyed wood flooring pros on Facebook from April 10–12 to ask them how business was going during the pandemic amid many mandated business closures and shelter-in-place orders. The survey found that 82% of pros either aren't working or have experienced a slowdown in work. Here are the full results:
Here are some additional comments added by pros responding to the survey:
Steve Albert Not working—shut down in Pennsylvania. Lots of booked work with no cancellations yet (knock on wood) and a fair amount of calls still coming in. Guys are on unemployment.
Josh Swenson Not working [in Minnesota] because customers rescheduled till our stay-at-home order is up. No sales team on the road, and the showroom floor is closed.
Sylvain Oxygene They talk about reopening around April 20 [in Quebec]. It's been a month of complete lockdown.
Joshua Lewis Here in Michigan, a lot of suppliers have closed, so even if we did work we couldn’t get supplies. But I guess if we could work then the suppliers would be open.
Dean Brake Here in South Carolina work is slow. No cancellations, but a lot of jobs on halt until further notice.
Sean Tupper San Diego here ... still working estimates, still coming, but less than normal. But I’m about a month out work-wise.
Jim Hyde Still working in South Jersey. Supposedly shut down on construction sites in New Jersey but there are so many exemptions that it will be business as usual. We are doing one more job, then shutting ourselves down; the positive infected numbers are doubling every day in my area. I just went to Home Depot and it was packed! Craziness.
Laura Mireles We are only working [in Georgia] in unoccupied homes doing insurance jobs. People are displaced and need to be able to move back home. We are staying out of Home Depot and isolating as much as possible.
Michael Renda Still working. Lost four jobs this month already; starting to slow down.
Ralph Brookens Still working [in Illinois], estimating nearly every day. We are being respectful and only going & doing as requested. Still a two month plus backlog. Some jobs and estimates are pushed back but not many.
Conrad Parducci I’m on Kauai and we’re not allowed to work unless it’s flood repair. Three of my guys are collecting unemployment and one is sanding a couple of tiny flood jobs.
Spencer Boynton Smith Phone stopped ringing [in Manitoba] three weeks ago, abruptly.
Joe Dawson Working on our calendar with already scheduled jobs so far and we added some work like doing rails and newel posts that I usually pass on into the mix. Several new estimates and landed one. Anyone saying they are more busy than before this crisis is full of crap.
Earnie Lamb We lost about half of our work [in North Carolina] but received a call from a company I used to do fire and water restoration for. We're working six days a week but doing all trades not just flooring. Things always have happened like that for us.
