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Working Toward Affordable, Resilient Homes
A new natural disaster protection act from NAHB aims to support hazard mitigation projects
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Client Design Choices in the Time of Social Media and AI
Social media speeds up the trend cycles, and now artificially created images are falling into homeowners' hands
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Indoor Air Quality Gets Smart
A home's air quality can now be cloud connected and fully automated with this innovative product
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Tax deal extends, shrinks energy efficiency credits
The tax bill passed by both houses of Congress this week does extend the credits, but at the levels they were at before the stimulus package.
Rheem gas-fired water heaters
Rheem Water Heating has developed a damper design on select residential gas-fired models, enabling them to achieve an energy factor (EF) from 0.67 to…
Cultivating solid trade contractor relationships
Some remodelers have been known to take an adversarial, lowest-price-is-best mentality when it comes to dealing with their trade partners. They still view trade contractors as subcontractors. The good news is that most of these ultimately fail in business before too long.
People You Should Know: Michael Luzier
NAHB Research Center is helping remodelers and builders find ways to incorporate smart practices
Remodelers Exchange: Positioning for the expiration of energy retrofit tax credits
Professional Remodeler's Tom Swartz talks to remodelers Howard Chermak and Tom Panek about how the credits have helped their businesses and how they are positioning their companies for a post-credit market.
Remodelers Exchange: Positioning for the expiration of energy retrofit tax credits
Professional Remodeler's Tom Swartz talks to remodelers Howard Chermak and Tom Panek about how the credits have helped their businesses and how they are positioning their companies for a post-credit market.
NSF International announces new standards for green products
NSF International announced last week at the Greenbuild show in Chicago that it has developed a Sustainable Product Assurance program to help increase consumer confidence in “green” products. The program will include the development of national standards and procedures to verify a product’s environmental or social claims.
ServiceMagic Report: Remodeling Requests Down in Third Quarter
ServiceMagic.com, a website that connects homeowners to prescreened, customer-rated contractors nationwide, released its annual Home Modeling & Repair Index for the third quarter of 2010. The company used its own data, plus surveys of service providers and consumers, to measure trends in home improvements.
Green Remodels That Sell
Efficiency, return on investment keys to making sustainable remodeling work for homeowners
Energy Audits: Remodeling Profit Center vs. Loss Leader
Energy audits are one of the popular cure-alls in the remodeling industry these days as firms look for new ways to capture business.
Some remodelers are opting to use them as a loss leader, while others are finding the audits a way to generate profit and drive more work.