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Josh Johnson of Johnson Flooring in Deckerd, Tenn., had a nightmare job when he was first starting out on his own. He was tasked with sanding a 3,500-square-foot waxed heart pine floor in a circa-1880 two-story home with his rental equipment—but that wasn’t the worst of it:
“We did the downstairs first and came back a month later to do the upstairs on these old gapped heart pine boards. We were working at night with bad lighting, and we didn’t have the lights on downstairs while we were working upstairs. We coated the floor with poly, walked downstairs and went home for the night. When we came back the next day to put on another coat, I realized we had trouble: The night before as we were coating, the poly had been running through the gaps in the old floor and the wood ceiling of the first floor and dripped onto the floor we had done a month earlier! So we went ahead and coated the upstairs like we had planned, and once we got that done, we started right back resanding the downstairs floor. Yeah, I learned from that!”
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