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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Career Path:

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

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Job Opportunities:

Apprentice hard tile installers
Carpet installers
Carpet tile installers
Ceramic tile installers
Hard tile setters

Job Responsibilities:

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.

Work Life:

Have to work more than 40 hours a week
Work is irregular
Mostly work indoors and sometimes outdoors
On the job training

Key Skills:

Attention to Detail
Active Listening
Operation and control
Complex Problem Solving

Designation:

Entry-level

Apprenticeship

Mid-level

Trained finisher

High-level

Master finisher, supervisor, contractor

Merits & Demerits:

Merits

1. Work is more practical than theoretical
2. supportive work environment
3. It is easy to get into this career

Demerits

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

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Job Opportunities
Job Responsibilities
Work Life
Key Skills
Designation
Merits & Demerits

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