PR December 2001

When the National Association of Realtors announced that existing single-family home sales had dropped 11.7% in September, a shudder ran throughout the remodeling industry.

Shadow Bevel-Cut Glass, one of eight window grid options from Simonton, offers deep grooves etched into the interior of glass windows in square patterns.

Just because design/build remodeling has become a lot more common doesn’t mean it’s an easy business model to follow.

The Euro-Eze attachment mounts on most 10- to 21-inch drill presses to bore in one stroke the three holes necessary to mount European-style hinges.

No one likes to fix mistakes after a job is finished, but most remodelers take it for granted that a punchlist is part of a project. Don't.

The Big Dawg ratchet is so named because of a redesigned dog with nine teeth that contact the gear, increasing torque transfer by 38% compared with the company’s traditional model and improving arc swing by 120% to 6.8 degrees.

In 2000, 1.04 million gas hearth appliances (such as fireplaces and stoves) were shipped by manufacturers, along with 647,000 wood- or pellet-fuel-burning appliances, according to the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association.

The Chloe multitasking washlet seat is available in an elongated style and the pictured size to fit round-front toilets.

Countertops can add the pizzazz that makes a kitchen the showroom of a home.

CP 777 Speed Plugs are 60% faster than castle cutting and 43% faster than conventional mineral wool installations for top-of-wall firestopping, the company says.