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Remodeling & Deck Expo 2010: Day 3 & 4

One of the major issues for most conventions is keeping it fresh & interesting for those that are attending the classes. Well my hats off to Paul Trout, the speakers & everyone from Hanley Wood – mission accomplished. I should also state it was nice seeing that they left plenty of time to explore the […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles, Training, Education, & Confrence Tagged With: Remodeling Show September 18, 2010 By SLS

Remodeling & Deck Expo 2010: Day 1 & 2

Ahhh Baltimore, home of the 19th Annual Remodeling & Deck Expo. Compared to last year’s, the attendance is up & I see a lot more upbeat remodelers and companies which bodes well for the future. As many long time readers know, I firmly believe that one’s education never stops, especially in this industry. The changes […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles, Training, Education, & Confrence Tagged With: AZEK, Remodeling Show September 15, 2010 By SLS

Building Green Homes: Step 8 – Interior Framing, Rough-In’s

In this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward, we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can utilize those lessons on future builds. In the last two articles we covered in the drying in portion of the building. This process is necessary […]

Filed Under: Going Green?, Universal Design Tagged With: Looking Back, Shelter In-Place September 13, 2010 By SLS

140 Day’s Later: RRP Penalty Guidelines Explained

In yesterday’s article, we did a quick overview of the RRP’s enforcement policies, looked at the current exemptions, what their 4 levels of enforcement options are, and provided a ton of links to help you hopefully avoid getting into trouble in the first place. In today’s article, we are going to delve a little deeper […]

Filed Under: EPA Lead Regulations September 9, 2010 By SLS

139 Days Later: RRP Penalty Guideline’s Established

About a month ago, I was asked to write a 300-word opinion piece on the RRP & where it stood 100 days later. In that piece, I made this comment about enforcement. “Enforcement: Well after being caught in a few lies, the EPA has effectively had its hands tied on the enforcement part. Supposedly, October […]

Filed Under: EPA Lead Regulations, OSHA September 8, 2010 By SLS

Blogoff: My Ultimate Getaway

Ahhh, Labor Day – the official end to most everyone’s summer vacations and travel & the start of preparing for the upcoming holidays. Wow, wait, where did all the time go? In that vein, this Tuesday’s Blog Off happens to be “Where’s your slice of heaven?” . Everybody it seems, has a place in mind […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles Tagged With: Blog Off September 7, 2010 By SLS

Building Green Homes: Step 7 – Drying In the Walls / Air Sealing

Sorry, for the short break we took on this series entitled Looking Back & Looking Forward. As a reminder we are reviewing a green home we built over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how we can (or even how you can) utilize those lessons on future builds. In our last article, […]

Filed Under: Going Green? Tagged With: Looking Back September 4, 2010 By SLS

Sustainability, Green Building & You?

While attending the Green Building Focus Conference, one of the most interesting items I noticed was how almost all the Architects started their seminars off with their definitions of certain items. While some may have considered this as strange, (especially when you consider who their audience was) in essence it is almost a necessity. In […]

Filed Under: Going Green?, Training, Education, & Confrence Tagged With: GBFC, Sustainable Building August 31, 2010 By SLS

Recap of the 2010 Green Building Focus Conference

Coming out of my last set of classes, I had had it. I was looking forward to simply just going to the Remodeling & Deck Expo in Baltimore and possibly catching the Green Building Focus Expo in Birmingham. At that time, all I could envision was simply touring the Expo floors, catching up with some […]

Filed Under: Going Green?, Training, Education, & Confrence Tagged With: GBFC August 28, 2010 By SLS

Does college or anything really prepare you for the real world?

If it is Tuesday, it must be time for another Blog Off  with the links to others participating at the end of this article. This week’s topic is on “does college prepare you for the real world”? In a way, it is a timely topic, which affects not only the students, but also their parents […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles Tagged With: Blog Off August 24, 2010 By SLS

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