Like many in the wood flooring industry, Mike Abraham, now with Memphis, Mich.-based Superior Floor Service Inc., grew up in the trenches, working for his father's business, and he recalls this funny memory from his youth: "When my three brothers and I 'had' to work for my dad, laying and sanding floors starting around the age of 13 years old, we always had to edge for him. We hated it. While he was drumming in another part of the house, we would shut off our edgers near a window so we could watch the excavators digging basements, the cranes installing pre-fab basement forms, and the dozers backfilling and grading ground. We would watch this work going on for as long as we could-until we heard the drum shut off! You can bet we had our edgers running instantly, as if we had been working hard all along. My brothers and I shared this story recently. We all have successful flooring businesses of our own now."
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Like many in the wood flooring industry, Mike Abraham, now with Memphis, Mich.-based Superior Floor Service Inc., grew up in the trenches, working for his father's business, and he recalls this funny memory from his youth: "When my three brothers and I 'had' to work for my dad, laying and sanding floors starting around the age of 13 years old, we always had to edge for him. We hated it. While he was drumming in another part of the house, we would shut off our edgers near a window so we could watch the excavators digging basements, the cranes installing pre-fab basement forms, and the dozers backfilling and grading ground. We would watch this work going on for as long as we could-until we heard the drum shut off! You can bet we had our edgers running instantly, as if we had been working hard all along. My brothers and I shared this story recently. We all have successful flooring businesses of our own now."
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