PR September 2002

Remodelers trying to help customers find an easy, relatively in-expensive way to im-prove their home’s ap-pearance.

The 11318EVS SDS-max is one of three new demolition hammers that remove 350 to 400 pounds of 5,000-pound-per-square-inch concrete per hour

A firm that handles both design and construction can make life easier for its clients.

Laid between tile (or stone or marble) and the subfloor by a tile installer and then connected by an electrician, the Nuheat floor-warming system is designed to heat the floor to 85-88 degrees.

With growing interest in green remodeling, contractors, designers and architects might want to read The Resourceful Renovator, A Gallery of Ideas for Reusing Building Materials.

Half-round and full-round rope moldings in thicknesses from 3/8 inch to 1 inch are stocked in maple, oak, poplar, cherry and flexible formats in 8-foot lengths and MDF in 6- to 12-foot lengths.

Marketing is not about slick magazine advertisements and complicated Web sites but about results.

Everyone agrees. “Com-munication is the biggest thing,” says Ray Cichocki, a lead carpenter for Great Renovations Inc. in Farmington Hills, Mich.

'Buyer, beware!' might be advisable for consumers, but 'Remodeler, beware!' is appropriate when it comes to state laws concerning home-improvement contractors.

My parents decided to remodel their powder room. They asked me for help. I have given them the names of local remodelers, explained how design/build works, taken them to showrooms.