I nonetheless bear in mind the primary time I attended the NWFA Wooden Flooring Expo. It was 2014 and being held in Nashville, Tennessee, my market city, so I used to be in a position to drive in for the day and take all of it in. I had solely began my enterprise, Neuroh Hardwood, a few years prior, and this was my first time seeing all of the producers and assembly different professionals from across the nation.

I’ve at all times been an thought individual, and now having the chance to fulfill choice makers from completely different firms, I began sharing from sales space to sales space the methods I’d thought to enhance the equipment or different merchandise we use. Clearly, these people had been accustomed to listening to enchancment concepts from tradesmen, and none of them appeared all too eager about my concepts. After eager about alternative ways to enhance gear for a couple of extra years, I lastly determined to do one thing myself and launched what’s now Neulight in 2018.

Lighting on gear was one factor that I at all times had a burden to enhance. We regularly must work in houses with poor to non-existent lighting, and the little bulbs on a number of the gear, or non-existent lighting altogether simply wasn’t chopping it for me. Since I shared a store area with a machinist, I labored with him to develop our first gentle for the American Sanders Tremendous 7. Different enhancements have adopted, corresponding to our buffer gentle, which helps you see 360 levels across the machine, or aluminum exhausting plates which give a flat dish out free minimize, or customized wire brushes that give patina and texture.

Since what was obtainable in our business was both restricted, or not of the standard I wished, I developed and made issues I knew labored after which provided them as much as different tradesmen. I’ve had a number of optimistic suggestions from customers. We continuously are on the lookout for new methods to create merchandise to assist the flooring contractor. The latest merchandise we launched is a budget-friendly diamond disc that attaches to the multidisc or on to the edger for eradicating aluminum oxide finishes or subfloor prep.

I really feel that flooring craftsmen must be a specialist in lots of fields to achieve success. We’re half shade specialist, half chemist, half mechanic, and even half marriage counselor (what number of instances have you ever had to assist a pair when selecting the colour?!). Discovering methods to make it simpler on the top person is what I’ve at all times tried to attain in making merchandise. I do know I’m solely one in all many others who’ve contributed to our area of interest business in making the job a bit of simpler. If in case you have an awesome thought, why not strive making it a actuality? It could possibly be an actual assist to you and the remainder of us who’re at all times on the lookout for a option to make issues higher.

Kyle Neuroh is the proprietor of Neuroh Hardwood and Neulight in Nashville, Tennessee. He’s an NWFA Licensed Set up Skilled and Licensed Sand and End Skilled, a previous NWFA Wooden Flooring of the Yr award winner, and was named to Hardwood Flooring journal’s 40 Beneath 40 listing in 2019. He might be reached at kyle@neurohhardwood.com.