Dotty Vazquez at Awakened Ambition Flooring Co. in Coplay, Pa., came across an unexpected (and startling) object when she was sanding on this memorable job:
“We were sent to a job in Allentown, Pa., where we had the pine floors vacuumed and swept in preparation for sanding. On my first cut, with 36-grit, things were going smoothly and I was grinding my way through the floor. Then I heard a ‘POP’ come from what I thought was the Hummel—and something hit my foot. I stopped sanding and looked at the machine and the floor, thinking I may have hit a nail I hadn’t seen. As I removed my headphones, thinking, ‘What was that noise?!’ the plumber in the kitchen yells, ‘Oh $hit, was that a gunshot? I smell gunpowder—did one of y’all fire a gun?’ I was so confused and told him, ‘No, what the hell…’ and then as I inspect the floor I see a sanded bullet casing, and further up the board is the top of the bullet stuck between the crevices. I yelled out, ‘Holy $hit! I could have been hit in the foot!’ When we got back to the shop, we showed the boss the bullet and told her the story. She said, ‘Well, you should always thoroughly inspect the floors before sanding!!!’”
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