Construction Practices
Construction Practices
Articles, surveys, ideas, trends, and tips on best practices for residential builders, remodelers, and architects serving the residential construction industry.
How to Retrofit Foundation Footings
To make a low-height basement a more comfortable living space, this remodeler digs deeper but needs to add support to do so
Construction
6 Must-Knows for Installing Pocket Doors
Save your sanity: Do it right the first time
Construction Practices
Crawl Spaces to Basements: Proceed with Caution
Converting a crawl space to other uses can upgrade a home and add significant value, but when done incorrectly, it can also be disastrous
NAHB
Webinar: Project and Trade Management Musts—The New American Remodel 2023
Access the webinar here to learn project and trade management lessons from The New American Remodel 2023
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Focus on customer service pays dividends for remodelers
Tracking and improving customer satisfaction is more important than ever for remodelers to be successful
Six tax code changes to keep your eye on
The tax code changes every year as new laws are passed and new restrictions take effect. The rules on small businesses are especially volatile. Here are six changes and potential changes you need to know about for this year and beyond.
Exterior/Replacement: Sell is a four-letter word
Selling the right way is all about delivering what the customer needs in the exterior/replacement business
?Socialnomics? author Erik Qualman on how social media is shaping the future
‘Socialnomics’ author Erik Qualman on how social media is shaping the future
Exclusive research: Financing challenges slowing remodeling recovery
The dearth of financing for remodeling projects continues to be a major problem for remodelers and most don’t expect it to get any better this year.
16 tips for successful e-marketing
How remodelers are successfully leveraging social media and the Web
Finding and keeping a good remodeling sales team
More than ever, it’s important to build a good sales team. Professional Remodeler’s Jud Motsenbocker talked to Charlie Gindele and Andy Wells about how they do it.
Tips on tracking the effectiveness of remodeling marketing
For full-service remodelers it’s rare that a single marketing tool generates leads by itself. Over time an accumulation of good impressions — from referrals to classy promotion pieces to a good website and a healthy crop of job signs — makes the point that your company is reliable and does good work.
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.
Craig Durosko: Finally! The Silver Lining ...
There are huge successes as the remodeling market rebounds. Craig Durosko share some of what he is seeing.