Marg Career Library - Floor Sanders and Finishers

Overview:

Apply coats of finish after scraping and sanding wooden floors to smooth surfaces with a floor scraper and a floor sanding machine.

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A high school diploma or equivalent is enough but not necessary.

Knives, scrapers, or wood chisels can be used to remove excess glue from joints.
Seal wood floors with filler compound and coats of finish.
Sand the surfaces of the floors with sanding equipment until they are smooth.
Using scrapers, disk-type sanders, and sandpaper, scrape and sand floor edges and regions inaccessible to floor sanders.
Sandpaper should be attached to the rollers of sanding equipment.
Examine the smoothness of the floorboards.

Entry-level

Apprenticeship

Mid-level

Trained finisher

High-level

Master finisher, supervisor, contractor

Merits

Demerits

1. Physically demanding
2. Salary is below average
3. Work is irregular depending on weather conditions, customer demand or contract duration.