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Safety Sunday – Safety Glasses

For our inaugural Safety Sunday quick tip, I thought we would start with one of the most important tips brought up in our Labor Day Safety article. In the immortal words of Norm Abrahm, “there is no more important safety rule than to wear these (tap-tap) safety glasses.” In all honesty, I don’t always remember […]

October is National Energy Awareness Month & a Free Monitoring Tool

Welcome to the 23rd National Energy Awareness Month, where they choose “Powering America – We’re on target” for the slogan. Seriously – their message is that we are on target, as in we are doing fine, there are no issues, so please keep doing what you are doing? I know this is an election year, […]

Building Green Homes: Step 9 – Insulation

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 past articles, we have covered quite a few topics (listed at the end) and have left off […]

The HTRC, Safety Sunday, & a few more Changes

The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov Just a little over 14 months ago, the Resource Center […]

RESNET & BPI – the Pro’s & Con’s

As I mentioned after my final class recap, I was considering two final articles; the first one was a recap of the training process, followed up by a comparison of the systems. Many people tend to believe that there is no difference between the systems, except for the CAZ testing required by BPI. I can […]

Facebook and the Blue Suede Shoes

If it’s Tuesday, and we utilized a wacky title, it must me another “Let’s Blog Off” post, right? Well you would be correct, and who could resist this one – “Do social sites like Facebook connect the world or isolate them?” As always, we will have a listing of the participating blogs at the end, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]