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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

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

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

There’s no such thing as a free lunch – Roofing

Knock, knock – Hello? Hi, I’m Mike & we were just looking at your neighbors’ roof and thought we spotted some damage to yours, would you mind if we performed a free roof inspection? It will only take a few minutes, you see we do lots of insurance repair jobs and most of the time […]

Filed Under: Consumer Awareness, Miscellaneous Articles Tagged With: Roofing August 23, 2010 By SLS

Building smaller – is it the next big thing?

So what happens when you combine a bunch of designers spread out across the country that have their own blogs, with Twitter? The inventible – a blog-off where great ideas are shared amongst the group and everyone knows who won… (Individually: I did of course, but everyone else’s was really good)While I really cannot hold […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles Tagged With: Blog Off August 10, 2010 By SLS

Training Revisted – The battle to be the best

Wow what a long journey this has been, getting all the requisite classes in, the certifications, all the while still taking care of our primary remodeling business. While I have blogged extensively about this process and most of the classes – what would happen if I were to compare them side by side? What happens if we put them all in a ring; who would come out on top? Well let’s find out, and in the immortal words of Michael Buffer – “Are you ready to RUMBLE?”

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles, Training, Education, & Confrence Tagged With: BPI, RESNET August 8, 2010 By SLS

Renovations & Insurance – What is covered & what isn’t

The idea that an article like this was needed was made abundantly clear to me on a recent project I completed. This project required us to completely remove and reframe an existing roof, while leaving the existing walls & floors untouched. During the consultation phase of this project, we covered all the normal items like […]

Filed Under: Consumer Awareness, Hot Roof's, Insurance, Miscellaneous Articles Tagged With: Roofing August 1, 2010 By SLS

Day 1: BPI Building Envelope Training

Woo hoo – I am taking my last BPI class that this time is being taught by EverBlue. I must admit, after my problems with Clean Edison, and then a few snafus with EverBlue’s computer system, I was wondering if I was ever going to get my BPI Building Envelope certification. As you can obviously […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles, Training, Education, & Confrence Tagged With: BPI July 28, 2010 By SLS

25 Conservation Tips & Tricks

In our last article, “Energy Efficiency vs. Conservation – what is the real issue?” we covered plenty of the issues that involve your actual house while it is being worked on. While we have also had several articles on making your house more energy efficient, money saving tips & tricks, air sealing, green cleaning, and […]

Filed Under: Energy Conservation, Miscellaneous Articles, Tips & Tricks June 19, 2010 By SLS

Going Green – While Cleaning Part Deux

In our last article on Green Cleaning materials, we provided some options that we have either used, use, or know of others using successfully with good results. Well like everything else in life, one finds that a little common sense goes a long ways but sadly is lacking by many individuals and groups. This point […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Articles, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: Cleaning, Guest Article's May 26, 2010 By SLS

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