Sanding

WFB Asks ChatGPT: Can My Wood Floor Just Have a Light Sanding?

WFB asked AI-powered ChatGPT a question about wood flooring. Below is its verbatim response. How did it do?

May 24, 2023

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Wood Floor Rescue: Original Attic Floor Transformed for Modern Life

Zach Christie and his brothers weren’t even supposed to be the wood flooring contractors on this job, an attic in a Pennsylvania home dating to the 1800s.

May 17, 2023

Trick of the Trade: Protecting Existing Flooring in a Flash

Wood floor pro Anthony Magaro has a simple tip for protecting existing adjacent flooring when sanding a wood floor.

May 17, 2023

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My Trigger Phrase: ‘Been Doing It That Way for 35 Years’

T.J. Haas's father, Mark Haas, was highly motivated, supremely intelligent and well-liked among his peers in the industry, but a series of electrical hookup accidents may have contributed to his premature death.

May 17, 2023

My dad was an innovator in the industry, but his life ended too early, potentially in part due to being electrocuted when hooking up power. In this photo he is running a Sharpless Built Super Sander, which was a hardplate belt sander we used for our intermediate cuts and leveling.

WFB Asks ChatGPT: Can I Sand My Wood Floors Myself?

WFB asked AI-powered ChatGPT a question about wood flooring. Below is its verbatim response. How did it do?

May 3, 2023

Sport Flooring Contractors Organize as Part of American Sports Builders Association

A group of sport flooring contractors have organized as the Indoor Sports Surfaces Division of the American Sports Builders Association, with the intention to provide training and networking opportunities.

April 26, 2023

The working group for what is now the Indoor Sports Surfaces Division of the American Sports Builders Association at the Praters facility in Chattanooga, Tenn., in January included (from left): Tim Young, Basic Coatings; Ashton Salinger, Basic Coatings; McKenzie Nelson, Western Sport Floors; John Prater, Praters; Paul Nelson, Western Sport Floors; Rob Zehnder, PoloPlaz; Steve Yoder, The Ohio Floor Company; Cassie Wilson, Praters; Larry Wade, The Ohio Floor Company; Abby Mitchell, Ponder Company; Kevin Miller, The Ohio Floor Company; Paul Hildebrandt, Creative Floors; Jay Hendley, Covington Floors; Logan Allen, Allen Hardwood Floors; Mike Allen, Allen Hardwood Floors; and Phil Sanchez, Bona.

Readers Respond: Show Us Your Flat Floors

WFB asked followers on Facebook to share their flat wood floors.

April 17, 2023

Joe Dawson shared this ultra-flat floor photo.

Trick of the Trade: This Trick Leaves You Hanging … Your Buffer Attachments

Wood floor pro Joshua Crossman now offers these handy buffer attachment hangers for sale.

March 17, 2023

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What Is Your Favorite Flat Floor Photo?

Wood floor pros share their favorite photos of floors that are impressively flat.

January 30, 2023

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Wood Floor Rescue: Coming to the Rescue for Grandpa’s Old Wood Floors

Rick Coning arrived at this job after other wood flooring companies saw the floor and simply said “no.”

January 17, 2023

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Trend Spotting: North Texas 'Can't Get Enough' Hand-Scraped Floors

Johnny Rodriguez began noticing a surge in the popularity of hand-scraped wood floors in North Texas as far back as 1997—and the popularity hasn’t died down.

November 18, 2022

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Wood Floor Rescue: Bringing Centuries-Old Beautiful Fir Back to Life

“It’s so Downton Abbey,” says Danny Stenhouse, owner of York, U.K.-based Sandhouse Floor Sanding & York Parquet Ltd., of this job site, Brockfield Hall, where he brought the wood flooring back to life.

September 16, 2022

On22 Wood Floor Rescue

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This year's winner of Best Residential in the 2023 WFB Design Awards, by Tom Ourada of Ourada Designs.

Confidence in Their Craft: See the Winners of the 2023 Wood Floor Business Design Awards

Wood Floor Business is honored to announce the 2023 awards for Best Residential, Best Commercial, Best Stairs, Best Gym, Readers’ Choice and Next Gen.

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WFB Wood Flooring State of the Industry 2023

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What Lies Beneath: How I Prevent Moisture Problems Before the Sale

From left to right: An offset flush trim pattern bit, round over bit, top-bearing groove bit, pattern trim bit with top bearing and flush trim bit.

Routers 101: What a Wood Floor Pro Should Know

How to Deal With Karens (the Complainers)

How to Deal With Karens (the Complainers)

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