Meet Bill Price - an industry leader for 40 years

Bill Price is a third generation wood floor finish contractor who learned his trade in apprenticeship with his family working after school and weekends from the age of twelve. After thirty years of running his own contracting business his career changed direction. Although still working in the same industry, he moved into the finish manufacturing end of the business while working first as a sales & technical representative for Glitsa American, Inc. in Seattle, then marketing manager and product development manager, and finally as president of two national finish companies, Preferred Products, Inc. and Glitsa American, Inc.

Bill's experience is unique in that he brought forward valuable practical hands-on information that when teamed with the chemists' knowledge, made him a major player in developing the new generation of waterborne finishes.

Bill's dream has always been to train wood floor finish contractors to get the best possible product, a beautiful wood floor. His dream has now become a reality as he reaches out to fellow contractors through the Floormasters.com.

Floormasters International was founded in 1995 by Bill Price, a third generation floor finish contractor whose dream was to share hard-earned "tricks of the trade" with fellow contractors. He learned his craft in apprenticeship with his family and built a reputation for quality work and integrity. Bill knew that most floor finishers are self taught or learned from someone who was self taught. However, he didn't fully understand the lack of good generic information and training for contractors until he worked in the floor finish manufacturing end of the business. Here he learned that training was key to the future of the wood floor finishing industry and for contractors to consistently turn out a quality product - a beautiful, custom sanded and finished wood floor.

Bill began by offering Floormasters Sanding & Finishing Seminars for Professionals in several locations in the Northwest US for professional flooring contractors with hands-on experience. He has since expanded the seminars across the US and now offers The Floormasters Newsletter, a quarterly newsletter providing generic product and application information and techniques for wood floor finishers. Bill also offers consulting services to contractors, distributors, and manufacturers.

Bill says, "My goal is to create solutions. I know, first hand, how disheartening and expensive it is to have a job fail. There is nothing worse for the floor finish contractor than standing, watching helplessly, as a newly-finished floor wrinkles. Environmental laws are good for all of us but when products change and we don't know about it, it makes us look bad as they don't perform the way we're used to them performing. Education is the key! Staying abreast of the changes and testing, testing, testing!"