The HTRC – Page 42 – The Homeowners & Trades Resource Center

Bathroom Blogfest: Still Climbing Out with Cancer

This week we are participating in the 7th annual, week-long, “Still Climbing Out” Bathroom Blogfest. This year (which is our first) we will be joining numerous bloggers from across the U.S., Canada, Dubai, and the U.K. who have signed up to participate. It does appear that there are actually two topics this year, customer experience […]

LEED Habitat: Punch List & Dedication

Yesterday at 2 PM, the Harbin’s now officially have a house they can call home after the tornados of April 27th, 2011 destroyed their prior home. This marks the 38th house completed by the Athens Limestone County chapter of Habitat & the 2001 house completed in the State of Alabama. There were about 60+ people […]

Safety Sunday: Food Allergies & Halloween – yes you can

I love Halloween time with all the costumes, kids having fun, and being able to raid the trick or treat bags when the kids were younger. Fortunately none of my kids had any allergies so I never really thought twice about it. A couple of weeks ago I started thinking about it when I was […]

Common Sense Building: Making Sense of Radiant Heat (FAQ)

We originally started this series on Radiant Heat with an article entitled “Don’t just jump on the bandwagon” & followed it up by a guest post from Todd Vendituoli on his installation of an under the slab system & the benefits of a Radiant Hydronic System. As promised we are into our third article on […]

Guest Post: 106 Yards Later part Deux

Last week I did a guest post on Building Moxie where I gave a “semi-interview,” (aka I interviewed myself) mostly as my way of saying thanks & to answer a few popular questions. Well while I was at the Remodeling Show & Deck Expo, JB & Barry did a real one with me which went […]

A Look across the Pond: Basic safety rules while working on-site

This Safety Sunday we have an interesting look at the safety rules from across the pond mainly addressed to the employee. This piece comes from us courtesy of Alan Murfee, an Industrial Engineer by profession and “writer by heart”. Alan works for SFM-Tusker based in the UK which makes custom PPE, Construction & Welding Safety […]

Top 5 of 5: Getting ready for ole man winter

I don’t think there is any doubt left that winter is right around the corner. Just this last week when in Philly, I was left scraping my window with a credit card as I hadn’t put the scraper back in the car. As the seasons start to change, there are a few things you might […]

Guest Post: 106 Yards Later

What’s this, another logo change for Building Moxie? Well no not exactly but it sure is an interesting story. As you may recall I originally met JB at the Remodeling & Deck Expo back in 2010 which was being held in Baltimore. The next year the show was in Chicago & the Building Moxie crew […]

Eco-Friendly & Efficient Swimming Pools

This week we have an interesting guest post by Thomas Jones who describes himself as “a keen renovator and DIY enthusiast”. After spending years traveling the UK working other construction jobs, he is now working in the family owned business at FalconPools. For the last few years they have been specializing in Bio-Design or natural […]

The Power of We: A great example

As I sit here writing this over 2100 bloggers from around the world are participating in this year’s Blog Action Day on the “Power of We”. Founded in 2007, Blog Action Day brings together bloggers from different countries, interests and languages to blog about one important global topic on the same day. This will be […]