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Understanding Plumbing Codes: What Contractors Should Know

Plumbing codes are more than just guidelines; they’re essential rules designed to ensure the safety, functionality, and longevity of plumbing systems. For contractors, understanding these codes is critical to delivering high-quality work that meets legal requirements, prevents hazards, and provides...

Bracing Floor Trusses: A Comprehensive Guide for Contractors and Remodelers

Floor trusses are an essential component in modern construction, offering strength, flexibility, and efficiency for both residential and commercial projects. However, to ensure their optimal performance and safety, proper bracing is crucial. In this blog, we'll explore the importance of bracing...

Your Comprehensive Guide to Planning a Home Addition

Expanding your home with an addition is an exciting venture that can enhance your living space, increase your property value, and accommodate your growing needs. However, the process requires careful planning and execution to ensure a smooth and successful project. Whether you’re adding a new...

June House Projects: Contractor's Guide to Summer Renovations

As the temperatures rise and the days grow longer, June marks the onset of summer—a perfect time for homeowners to embark on a variety of renovation projects. From outdoor upgrades to indoor improvements, contractors are in high demand to help homeowners bring their visions to life. In this blog...

Spring Into Action: How to Kickstart May Projects

As the flowers bloom and the temperatures rise, May marks the perfect time for contractors to spring into action and tackle new projects. Whether you're a seasoned professional or an aspiring DIY enthusiast, having the right tools and supplies is essential for success. In this blog post, we'll...

Equipped for Success: Essential Tools for Contractors and DIY Homeowners Tackling Spring Projects

As the blossoms start to bloom and the days grow longer, spring emerges as the perfect season to breathe new life into your surroundings. Whether you're a seasoned contractor or a DIY enthusiast, having the right tools at your disposal is crucial for the success of your spring projects. In this...

Independent Contractor Taxes: What You Need to Know

There are a lot of benefits that go along with being self-employed. One of which are the tax advantages. These benefits won’t happen without a little effort, though. You must be diligent about keeping records, organizing all receipts and paying estimated taxes. With some foresight, budgeting, and...

Winterizing Your Equipment: A Comprehensive Guide for Contractors and DIY-ers

As the temperatures drop and the winter season approaches, it's time for contractors and DIY enthusiasts to prepare their equipment for the challenges of colder weather. Properly winterizing your tools and machinery is essential to ensure they remain in top working condition, prevent costly repairs...

Fall Essentials for Contractors: A Seasonal Shopping Guide

As the vibrant colors of summer give way to the crispness of autumn, contractors are gearing up for a new season of projects. Fall brings its own set of challenges and opportunities for professionals in the construction industry. In this blog post, we'll explore a range of autumn essentials that...

Managing Wood Movement

Wood is hygroscopic, meaning it exchanges moisture with the surrounding environment. When it absorbs moisture, wood swells, and when it releases moisture (dries), wood shrinks. The moisture exchange between wood and the air depends on the relative humidity and the temperature of the air, and the...

Guide to Planning a Home Addition

A home addition can be a great way to adapt and update your home, increase its property value, and create exciting new spaces you and your family can enjoy for years or even generations to come. The project, however, can also be intimidating and overwhelming, especially if you have never tackled...

Concrete Basics - How To Do a Slump Test

On site, the accepted way to gauge and control water content is the slump test. To do the test properly, use a standard cone 12 inches high, 4 inches wide at the small end, and 8 inches wide at the big end. You fill the cone up about 1/3 full, rod it 25 times, fill it up to 2/3 full, rod it 25 more...

Contractor Tips: Go Green with your Remodel

If you’re planning to tackle a remodeling project, keep in mind that it’s an excellent opportunity to make use of all of the green options available today. When doing so, make sure that you are adding green elements that are both practical and sustainable. Below, we’ve listed some ways that you can...

Construction Safety Meeting Topics for the Summer

Safety training is essential for any contractor, and regular safety meetings can share important information with entire crews, departments, and staff. Opting for specialized construction safety meeting topics for the summer is a great way to refresh and update safety procedures seasonally, but...

Maintaining your Hot Water Heater

Few household appliances are depended on more and thought about less than the hot water heater. For many homeowners, installing or replacing the hot water heater is the only time this essential appliance enters their minds.The fact is, a little routine maintenance can not only prolong the life of...

Callbacks, Downtime & Substrates, Oh My!

Remodelers can face many challenges on the jobsite. Those challenges can be anything from inclement weather delaying an exterior project, to multiple projects with a variety of substrates, or downtime caused by several items on the “punch list” that need to be finished quickly in order to complete...

Your Guide to Building Permits

One aspect of home improvement that many DIYers don’t think about is the building permit. Not getting one, however, can make the job cost way more than anticipated. That is due to the fines and added expenses that could result. Simple repairs don’t normally call for permits but major changes,...

How To Correctly Measure For Replacement Doors

Looking to upgrade your exterior steel door to a more energy efficient fiberglass or solid wood door? Or perhaps you want to replace the composite interior doors with a higher-grade wood door. Or maybe you need a new patio door to access your new deck. How do you go about taking the measurements...

How to Lay Big Tile

By now we can all agree that the condition of the substrate is a critical factor in the durability of a tile installation. Deflection, delamination, and expansion and contraction in structural members and subflooring can cause cracking in even the most durable tile and stone flooring materials. But...

Is Fence Installation the Next Big Opportunity for Home Improvement?

Outdoor spaces are one of the hottest remodeling trends for 2021, but designing full-scale outdoor living rooms may be out of scope for many companies. However, there is still an opening for home improvement professionals to get in on this gold rush: fence installation. “Given the increased focus...

Best Kitchen Countertop Design Ideas

Your kitchen counters are the focal point of the kitchen, but they are much more than just basic surfaces. Counters need to be practical, durable, and accessible, but they can also bring flair and personality to your kitchen. Which are the best kitchen countertop design ideas to meet your family’s...

Skylight Red Flags

When it comes to retrofitting skylights, two aspects of the job - framing the light well and flashing the unit - have the greatest potential for problems. Framing is typically only a problem in trussed roofs, but, says veteran remodeler Les Deal of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, “All of the houses I'm working...

The Future of Home Design – During and After COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we live in a matter of months. With less time out in the world, we have realized the ways that our homes now need to change, too. Tiny apartments clustered around communal laundry mats and all-inclusive workout rooms must reassess safety in a...

Essential COVID-19 Jobsite Safety Practices

Since mid-March, organizations such as the Construction Industry Safety Coalition and Occupational Safety (CISC) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have provided resources and safety recommendations at jobsites to ensure the safety of construction employers, employees, and...

Protect Your Jobsite Crews From the Summer Heat

On a jobsite in Kingsville, Texas, in August 2013, a worker was mixing gypsum concrete in preparation for gypcrete installation on an apartment building. It’s not a particularly taxing job, but he was doing it in direct sunlight. “He wasn’t training or doing anything that involved a lot of lifting...