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Replacing A Wood Column With A Fiberglass Column These 8″ round, wood, porch columns are approximately 15 years old and severely rotted. The lack of a gutter above didn’t help matters either. this article will explain the steps necessary for a porch column replacement. Both porch column bases are completely rotted and a colony of…
How To Contain Remodeling Dust With The Zip Door Kit As a remodeling contractor I learned early on that containing remodeling dust and keeping that dust out of the non-remodeled portion of your clients home is often more important than the quality of your work. It’s a fact that construction transports fine dust particles into…
HVAC Tool Bags The problem with todays tools and tool bags is that the folk designing them have never worked in the field. It’s taken a bit of time for companies to realize this and the folks at Veto Pro Pac have it figured out with their Veto Pro Pac HVAC Tool Bags. They have…
Image: musicforchange.com What YOU really want . . . in customer service is Satisfied Customers Satisfied Customers is something we try to achieve and is important for the professionalism in the remodeling industry. Customer satisfaction is a topic we find fascinating and one that some contractors overlook. Recently I posted a Customer Service Survey on my…
Image: ralphdean.com My aching back . . . The older I get the more I look for better, faster, easier ways to do things. Oh … and let’s not forget lighter!! The nail gun compressor, shown below, weighs approx. 68 lbs. Unfortunately it is not ergonomically designed and is a total bear to carry around…
Generating Business Leads With a Marketing Plan: As a remodeling contractor who has been fairly busy during the economic recession I can attribute my good fortune to a good work ethic, reputation and pro-active marketing efforts. A huge reason I have been able to stay busy is I have a plan in place to generate…
Steps On Building A Wood Storage Shed: Keeping firewood dry is critical to a successful fire. There is nothing worse than wanting a warm fire in your fireplace or wood stove and finding out that your firewood is wet or damp. What’s even worse is having to shovel a foot of snow off a…
GreenBagPickUp Has Reusable Dumpster Bags: I discovered reusable dumpster bags about two years ago. I’m a carpenter and run a small remodeling business in Concord, Massachusetts and before using reusable dumpster bags I had two options for trash removal. One was to rent and bring a metal dumpster on site, if space was available. The downside…
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