Deck America’s in-home sales strategy is a bit different from other remodelers. Dan Betts, president of the Woodbridge, Va.-based company, has put together a 14-step method that spells out exactly how its sales agents should tackle the sales call.

One of the newest business niches in the insurance restoration business is growing—in more ways than one. It’s mold remediation, the removal of mold contamination in water-damaged buildings.

The average workweek put in by most business owners easily tops 50 or more hours, taking time from family and personal priorities. Yet even remodelers can work from home, helping balance all their needs.

Kitchens continue to register as the No. 1 remodel project consumers do inside their homes. Full-fledged redesign or expansion inevitably means that the kitchen's functions will be shut down for some period of time.

Owning a small business can be a rewarding but often exhausting venture. Grueling hours and unrelenting stress are par for the course, but the possible payoffs -- increased profits, autonomy and flexibility -- keep many company owners plugging away.

After nearly three years of conversation, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and the NAHB have convinced the Census Bureau that the remodeling market is indeed undervalued.

Very few remodelers use the pen-and-paper method to write estimates nowadays. It’s common for most estimators to create a spreadsheet template in a…

In a time of massive technological change in the trade industries, vocational-technical education programs can be a source of new labor for remodelers. Vo-tech students are not slackers who want to avoid mathematics, science and English at all costs.

Looking around their soaring living room space, Bob and Linda Wiggins have nothing but rave reviews for their dramatically transformed house. Producing the whole-house remodel was high drama of another sort for ICON Remodeling.

Time flies in the remodeling industry. Finding time for family and relaxation is difficult enough for most remodelers, so it's no surprise that many professionals claim they don't have the minutes to spare for participation in local trade associations....