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Alec Caldwell
- How can you compete against this? — Comments (4)
- Being a MOL — Comments (0)
- A close shave — Comments (0)
- Ontario WSIB truth — Comments (1)
- Working for a pay cheque or building a business? — Comments (0)
- Getting the pulse from Home Renovation Contractors in 2012 — Comments (0)
- The Great Untouched Renovation Market! — Comments (0)
Build
- Stairway to Heavenly Design — Comments (0)
- Maxwell’s magnificent 7 — Comments (0)
- HurriQuake Nails — Comments (0)
- Contractor Roundtable, Part 2: Regulations and the underground — Comments (2)
- Tanks tank in study comparing them to tankless — Comments (0)
- Reliable Dry: Best practices for keeping water out of basements — Comments (2)
- The death of home heating — Comments (13)
- The Passive House continued — Comments (2)
- Nice bits! — Comments (1)
- The shower that does everything — Comments (2)
- IBS Orlando, 2012. Design that makes you look up — Comments (0)
- Revolution software — Comments (1)
- Why Velux stays on top — Comments (0)
- Super smart home — Comments (0)
- The perfect porch for a scary client — Comments (0)
- Hilti Brushless Power — Comments (0)
- Hanging Fire — Comments (0)
- The “little black dress” of kitchen products — Comments (0)
- Laneway houses — Comments (0)
- Getting into a Froth — Comments (0)
- Marketplace kicks contractor butt — Comments (2)
- Footings done different — Comments (0)
- The ABCs of ICFs — Comments (2)
- No-VOC Flooring Adhesive — Comments (0)
- Cleaning and servicing the macerator — Comments (0)
- Install once and you will hate all others — Comments (11)
- Broken? Or just an R9 super efficient French door — Comments (0)
- Why ‘R value’ is not accurate — Comments (3)
- Milwaukee Compact Bandsaw — Comments (0)
- The White Knight’s triumph — Comments (0)
- The White Knight — Comments (2)
- Bad insulation — Comments (0)
- The house with no furnace — Comments (1)
- Contracting in the City of Canals — Comments (0)
- Craftsmanship in Venice — Comments (0)
- Reiner’s letter from Germany — Comments (0)
- Craftsmanship Time Warp — Comments (0)
Contractor U
- Need more sales? Act like it! — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 4: $3 million and beyond — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 3: Beyond your first million — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 2: Along the $3 million road — Comments (2)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 1: The eight steps to growth — Comments (0)
- It’s All About The Lawn Sign — Comments (0)
- To Systemize or Not To Systemize — Comments (0)
Creative Eye
- The Creative Eye: Life On Site — Comments (0)
Design Build
- Stairway to Heavenly Design — Comments (0)
- IBS Orlando, 2012. Design that makes you look up — Comments (0)
- Revolution software — Comments (1)
- Laneway houses — Comments (0)
- The house with no furnace — Comments (1)
Distractions
- A Canadian View of the American Housing Industry — Comments (0)
- Your Leadership Style — Comments (0)
- A hand up, not a hand out — Comments (0)
- Greek Lesson — Comments (0)
- A new way of selling to homeowners arrives — Comments (0)
- What Your Parents Never Taught You About Business — Comments (0)
- Canadian Contractor Salary Survey is LIVE — Comments (0)
- Need more sales? Act like it! — Comments (0)
- The right price — Comments (0)
- Illegal immigrants in construction need a break — Comments (0)
- To profit, specialize — Comments (0)
- Reiner’s House — Comments (2)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 4: $3 million and beyond — Comments (0)
- Profit is not a dirty word — Comments (1)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 3: Beyond your first million — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 2: Along the $3 million road — Comments (2)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 1: The eight steps to growth — Comments (0)
- Cost-side smarts — Comments (0)
- Does it matter to renovators when housing slows? — Comments (2)
- One contractor’s opinion on home sales and renos — Comments (0)
- Showing off — Comments (0)
- Bad Santa — Comments (3)
- Underground truths — Comments (1)
- How unions encourage the cash economy — Comments (7)
- The Johnny Cash School of Decor — Comments (0)
- Reliable Dry: Best practices for keeping water out of basements — Comments (2)
- Crash! — Comments (0)
- The death of home heating — Comments (13)
- Meetings…what a waste!! — Comments (1)
- What you need to think — Comments (1)
- Health as a profit strategy — Comments (0)
- The Passive House continued — Comments (2)
- Union bully boys — Comments (0)
- Salary Survey: What you earn — Comments (0)
- Decorenza — Comments (0)
- How do you fire a client? — Comments (4)
- Who attracts the most attention at Orlando’s IBS? — Comments (0)
- The IBS show in three minutes — Comments (0)
- Why Velux stays on top — Comments (0)
- Battery life learning for reno geeks — Comments (0)
- What’s the ROI on this excavation? — Comments (0)
- Home show strategies — Comments (3)
- Multiple Trades On Site at the Same Time — Comments (3)
- How can you compete against this? — Comments (4)
- The Profit Series Part 1: Why Profit? — Comments (0)
- The Profit Series Part 2: Markup and Margin — Comments (3)
- Marketplace kicks contractor butt — Comments (2)
- Win more business — Comments (0)
- Contractor Shorts 1 — Comments (0)
- Being a MOL — Comments (0)
- Are you conservative? — Comments (0)
- Best Way to Profit — Comments (0)
- A Thousand Decisions — Comments (5)
- WSIB’s unfunded liability more than reported, says C.D. Howe — Comments (0)
- A close shave — Comments (0)
- Contractor Shorts 2 — Comments (2)
- Sell More at Trade Shows — Comments (1)
- The Federal budget for renovators — Comments (0)
- Men At Work Win — Comments (0)
- Ontario WSIB truth — Comments (1)
- The Creative Eye: Life On Site — Comments (0)
- Good news from RBC for renovators — Comments (0)
- Contractor Shorts 3 — Comments (1)
- Tired of working 60 hours plus a week? — Comments (0)
- Where’s Personal Responsibility? — Comments (0)
- Why ‘R value’ is not accurate — Comments (3)
- Hiring slaves — Comments (2)
- Contractor Shorts 4 — Comments (0)
- Working for a pay cheque or building a business? — Comments (0)
- This is cool — Comments (0)
- Lead Follow-Up — Comments (0)
- Visit us April 19 — Comments (0)
- Contractor Shorts 5 — Comments (0)
- Getting the pulse from Home Renovation Contractors in 2012 — Comments (0)
- Maybe You Need a Different Perspective. — Comments (0)
- Help a food bank. It will take one minute — Comments (2)
- The Home Depot Appreciates YOU! — Comments (0)
- Contractor shorts 6 — Comments (0)
- It’s All In The Presentation — Comments (0)
- Will getting three quotes find the bad banana? — Comments (2)
- Stop trying to be a business — Comments (0)
- It’s All About The Lawn Sign — Comments (0)
- It’s definitely about the lawn sign — Comments (0)
- The Great Untouched Renovation Market! — Comments (0)
- Contracting in the City of Canals — Comments (0)
- Craftsmanship in Venice — Comments (0)
- To Systemize or Not To Systemize — Comments (0)
- Craftsmanship Time Warp — Comments (0)
- Females hammering away — Comments (0)
- A Contractor Joke — Comments (0)
Drywall & Insulation
- The death of home heating — Comments (13)
- Getting into a Froth — Comments (0)
- The ABCs of ICFs — Comments (2)
dynamic
- For Painters Only — Comments (2)
Estimating
- CMHC Housing Report Q4, 2011 — Comments (0)
Finances
- CMHC Housing Report Q4, 2011 — Comments (0)
- What friends are NOT for — Comments (4)
- Keep this link — Comments (0)
Grow
- Your Leadership Style — Comments (0)
- CMHC Housing Report Q4, 2011 — Comments (0)
- Contractor Roundtable, Part 2: Regulations and the underground — Comments (2)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 4: $3 million and beyond — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 3: Beyond your first million — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 2: Along the $3 million road — Comments (2)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 1: The eight steps to growth — Comments (0)
- Meetings…what a waste!! — Comments (1)
- What you need to think — Comments (1)
- Go Rici Construct Canada Reno Roundtable: Part 1 — Comments (3)
- Survey your customers — Comments (0)
- Decorenza — Comments (0)
- Revolution software — Comments (1)
- And you said social media would never work in construction — Comments (2)
- Stop trying to be a business — Comments (0)
- CARAHS chapter meeting: Five proven ways to grow your business — Comments (2)
- Homeowners will pack seminar in Vancouver — Comments (0)
Guests
- Your Leadership Style — Comments (0)
- To profit, specialize — Comments (0)
HVAC
- Install once and you will hate all others — Comments (11)
- Milwaukee Compact Bandsaw — Comments (0)
- Dewalt’s shrouding protection — Comments (0)
Ian Szabo
- The right price — Comments (0)
Industry
- A Canadian View of the American Housing Industry — Comments (0)
- Your Leadership Style — Comments (0)
- US housing industry trends for 2012 — Comments (0)
- Greek Lesson — Comments (0)
- A new way of selling to homeowners arrives — Comments (0)
- Canadian Contractor Salary Survey is LIVE — Comments (0)
- Contractor Roundtable, Part 2: Regulations and the underground — Comments (2)
- Illegal immigrants in construction need a break — Comments (0)
- Does it matter to renovators when housing slows? — Comments (2)
- One contractor’s opinion on home sales and renos — Comments (0)
- Underground truths — Comments (1)
- How unions encourage the cash economy — Comments (7)
- How house sales affect renovations — Comments (0)
- Red Tape Awareness Week — Comments (0)
- Go Rici Construct Canada Reno Roundtable: Part 2 — Comments (1)
- Go Rici Construct Canada Reno Roundtable: Part 3 — Comments (0)
- Go Rici Construct Canada Reno Roundtable: Part 4 — Comments (0)
- Union bully boys — Comments (0)
- Salary Survey: What you earn — Comments (0)
- Decorenza — Comments (0)
- Salary Survey: What reduces profit? — Comments (0)
- Salary Survey preview: What you are doing online — Comments (0)
- The IBS show in three minutes — Comments (0)
- The new rules for WSIB in Ontario — Comments (2)
- The Anti-Angie’s List — Comments (8)
- 2012 Salary Survey — Comments (2)
- Building permits down for January — Comments (0)
- Starts break 200,000 in February — Comments (0)
- New Housing Price Index Up — Comments (0)
- Marketplace kicks contractor butt — Comments (2)
- Conference Board says renos gain in importance — Comments (0)
- Construction union wage rates — Comments (0)
- WSIB’s unfunded liability more than reported, says C.D. Howe — Comments (0)
- Another contractor enters WSIB hell — Comments (9)
- The Federal budget for renovators — Comments (0)
- Men At Work Win — Comments (0)
- Keep this link — Comments (0)
- Good news from RBC for renovators — Comments (0)
- WSIB responds — Comments (0)
- Hiring slaves — Comments (2)
- ACCESS! You need to know what it means — Comments (0)
- Bad insulation — Comments (0)
- Benny’s a charm, says J.D. Power — Comments (0)
- CARAHS chapter meeting: Five proven ways to grow your business — Comments (2)
- Permits up (commercial) and down (residential) — Comments (0)
- Rotating skyscrapers — Comments (0)
- A pocketful of natural gas — Comments (0)
Marketing
- Showing off — Comments (0)
- Bad Santa — Comments (3)
- Tanks tank in study comparing them to tankless — Comments (0)
- The Johnny Cash School of Decor — Comments (0)
- Go Rici Construct Canada Reno Roundtable: Part 1 — Comments (3)
- Survey your customers — Comments (0)
- Go Rici Construct Canada Reno Roundtable: Part 2 — Comments (1)
- Go Rici Construct Canada Reno Roundtable: Part 3 — Comments (0)
- Go Rici Construct Canada Reno Roundtable: Part 4 — Comments (0)
- Decorenza — Comments (0)
- Liar, liar pants on fire. Misleading proposals and how to avoid them — Comments (0)
- Ottawa firm gets in front of the curve — Comments (0)
- Word-of-mouth marketing is not just on the street — Comments (6)
- What does this woman have to say about your reno business? — Comments (0)
- And you said social media would never work in construction — Comments (2)
- How can you compete against this? — Comments (4)
- Keep this link — Comments (0)
- A four letter word for success — Comments (0)
- It’s All About The Lawn Sign — Comments (0)
- Homeowners will pack seminar in Vancouver — Comments (0)
Mike Draper
- The last payment — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 3: Beyond your first million — Comments (0)
- Home show strategies — Comments (3)
- Sell More at Trade Shows — Comments (1)
- Tired of working 60 hours plus a week? — Comments (0)
- Lead Follow-Up — Comments (0)
- Maybe You Need a Different Perspective. — Comments (0)
- It’s All About The Lawn Sign — Comments (0)
- To Systemize or Not To Systemize — Comments (0)
Mike Draper
- Need more sales? Act like it! — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 4: $3 million and beyond — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 3: Beyond your first million — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 2: Along the $3 million road — Comments (2)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 1: The eight steps to growth — Comments (0)
- Home show strategies — Comments (3)
- The Profit Series Part 1: Why Profit? — Comments (0)
- The Profit Series Part 2: Markup and Margin — Comments (3)
- Win more business — Comments (0)
- Best Way to Profit — Comments (0)
- Sell More at Trade Shows — Comments (1)
- Tired of working 60 hours plus a week? — Comments (0)
- Lead Follow-Up — Comments (0)
- Maybe You Need a Different Perspective. — Comments (0)
- It’s All In The Presentation — Comments (0)
- It’s All About The Lawn Sign — Comments (0)
- It’s definitely about the lawn sign — Comments (0)
- To Systemize or Not To Systemize — Comments (0)
Plumbing
- The shower that does everything — Comments (2)
- Ottawa firm gets in front of the curve — Comments (0)
- The “little black dress” of kitchen products — Comments (0)
- Cleaning and servicing the macerator — Comments (0)
- Install once and you will hate all others — Comments (11)
- Milwaukee Compact Bandsaw — Comments (0)
- Dewalt’s shrouding protection — Comments (0)
Pro Painter
- Pro Painter magazine’s Dynamic Survey — Comments (0)
- For Painters Only — Comments (2)
Products
- Maxwell’s magnificent 7 — Comments (0)
- HurriQuake Nails — Comments (0)
- Tanks tank in study comparing them to tankless — Comments (0)
- Nice bits! — Comments (1)
- Why Velux stays on top — Comments (0)
- Hilti Brushless Power — Comments (0)
- Hanging Fire — Comments (0)
- The “little black dress” of kitchen products — Comments (0)
- Getting into a Froth — Comments (0)
- The ABCs of ICFs — Comments (2)
- No-VOC Flooring Adhesive — Comments (0)
- Cleaning and servicing the macerator — Comments (0)
- Broken? Or just an R9 super efficient French door — Comments (0)
- Milwaukee Compact Bandsaw — Comments (0)
- Reiner’s letter from Germany — Comments (0)
Profit
- Motivating your staff without money — Comments (3)
- To profit, specialize — Comments (0)
- Profit is not a dirty word — Comments (1)
- What you need to think — Comments (1)
- Health as a profit strategy — Comments (0)
- The Profit Series Part 1: Why Profit? — Comments (0)
- The Profit Series Part 2: Markup and Margin — Comments (3)
Robert Koci
- A Canadian View of the American Housing Industry — Comments (0)
- A hand up, not a hand out — Comments (0)
- Greek Lesson — Comments (0)
- Illegal immigrants in construction need a break — Comments (0)
- Reiner’s House — Comments (2)
- Profit is not a dirty word — Comments (1)
- Cost-side smarts — Comments (0)
- Does it matter to renovators when housing slows? — Comments (2)
- One contractor’s opinion on home sales and renos — Comments (0)
- Showing off — Comments (0)
- Bad Santa — Comments (3)
- Underground truths — Comments (1)
- The Johnny Cash School of Decor — Comments (0)
- Crash! — Comments (0)
- The death of home heating — Comments (13)
- What you need to think — Comments (1)
- Health as a profit strategy — Comments (0)
- Union bully boys — Comments (0)
- Salary Survey: What you earn — Comments (0)
- Decorenza — Comments (0)
- How do you fire a client? — Comments (4)
- The IBS show in three minutes — Comments (0)
- Why Velux stays on top — Comments (0)
- Are you conservative? — Comments (0)
- The Federal budget for renovators — Comments (0)
- Stop trying to be a business — Comments (0)
Sales
- The art of starting over — Comments (0)
- And you said social media would never work in construction — Comments (2)
- Building permits down for January — Comments (0)
- Win more business — Comments (0)
- Sell on value, not price — Comments (0)
- Lead Follow-Up — Comments (0)
- Maybe You Need a Different Perspective. — Comments (0)
- It’s All In The Presentation — Comments (0)
Site Notes
- A Canadian View of the American Housing Industry — Comments (0)
- Bad Santa — Comments (3)
- Who attracts the most attention at Orlando’s IBS? — Comments (0)
- Battery life learning for reno geeks — Comments (0)
- What’s the ROI on this excavation? — Comments (0)
- Marketplace kicks contractor butt — Comments (2)
- Good news from RBC for renovators — Comments (0)
- Females hammering away — Comments (0)
Steve Maxwell
- Reliable Dry: Best practices for keeping water out of basements — Comments (2)
- The Passive House continued — Comments (2)
- A Thousand Decisions — Comments (5)
- Where’s Personal Responsibility? — Comments (0)
- Why ‘R value’ is not accurate — Comments (3)
- Contracting in the City of Canals — Comments (0)
- Craftsmanship in Venice — Comments (0)
- Craftsmanship Time Warp — Comments (0)
Stuff We Like
- Maxwell’s magnificent 7 — Comments (0)
- HurriQuake Nails — Comments (0)
- The shower that does everything — Comments (2)
- Ottawa firm gets in front of the curve — Comments (0)
- Battery life learning for reno geeks — Comments (0)
- Super smart home — Comments (0)
- Hilti Brushless Power — Comments (0)
- Hanging Fire — Comments (0)
- Getting into a Froth — Comments (0)
- Footings done different — Comments (0)
- Cleaning and servicing the macerator — Comments (0)
- Install once and you will hate all others — Comments (11)
- Killer clothing, literally — Comments (0)
- Broken? Or just an R9 super efficient French door — Comments (0)
- Varrrooommm!! 1 — Comments (0)
- Dewalt’s shrouding protection — Comments (0)
- Varrrooommm!! 2 — Comments (0)
- Varrrooommm!! 3 — Comments (0)
- “Your tailgate just got ripped off, Ivan.” — Comments (0)
- Varrrooommm!! 4 — Comments (0)
- Varrrooommm!! 5 — Comments (0)
Uncategorized
- The Big Orange goes Green — Comments (0)
- National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB) talks to you — Comments (0)
- I’ve never heard this insulation tip before — Comments (2)
- Stats Can says construction industry down, and the res part is even downer — Comments (0)
- Tired of working 60 hours plus a week? — Comments (0)
- StatsCan: Lower intentions for residential — Comments (0)
- March Starts from StatsCan — Comments (0)
- Maybe You Need a Different Perspective. — Comments (0)
- Take a break — Comments (0)
- It’s All In The Presentation — Comments (0)
- The Great Untouched Renovation Market! — Comments (0)
- To Systemize or Not To Systemize — Comments (0)
- When your customer kicks the bucket… — Comments (4)
- The Venetian Building Scene — Comments (0)
- How Carbide Saw Blades Are Made — Comments (0)
- Cape-able Contractors — Comments (0)
Victoria Downing
- What Your Parents Never Taught You About Business — Comments (0)
- Meetings…what a waste!! — Comments (1)
Voices
- A Canadian View of the American Housing Industry — Comments (0)
- Your Leadership Style — Comments (0)
- A hand up, not a hand out — Comments (0)
- Greek Lesson — Comments (0)
- What Your Parents Never Taught You About Business — Comments (0)
- Need more sales? Act like it! — Comments (0)
- The right price — Comments (0)
- Illegal immigrants in construction need a break — Comments (0)
- To profit, specialize — Comments (0)
- Reiner’s House — Comments (2)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 4: $3 million and beyond — Comments (0)
- Profit is not a dirty word — Comments (1)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 3: Beyond your first million — Comments (0)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 2: Along the $3 million road — Comments (2)
- The 3 million dollar road Part 1: The eight steps to growth — Comments (0)
- Cost-side smarts — Comments (0)
- Does it matter to renovators when housing slows? — Comments (2)
- One contractor’s opinion on home sales and renos — Comments (0)
- Showing off — Comments (0)
- Bad Santa — Comments (3)
- Underground truths — Comments (1)
- How unions encourage the cash economy — Comments (7)
- The Johnny Cash School of Decor — Comments (0)
- Reliable Dry: Best practices for keeping water out of basements — Comments (2)
- Crash! — Comments (0)
- The death of home heating — Comments (13)
- Meetings…what a waste!! — Comments (1)
- What you need to think — Comments (1)
- Health as a profit strategy — Comments (0)
- The Passive House continued — Comments (2)
- Union bully boys — Comments (0)
- Salary Survey: What you earn — Comments (0)
- Decorenza — Comments (0)
- How do you fire a client? — Comments (4)
- The IBS show in three minutes — Comments (0)
- Why Velux stays on top — Comments (0)
- Home show strategies — Comments (3)
- Multiple Trades On Site at the Same Time — Comments (3)
- How can you compete against this? — Comments (4)
- The Profit Series Part 1: Why Profit? — Comments (0)
- The Profit Series Part 2: Markup and Margin — Comments (3)
- Win more business — Comments (0)
- Being a MOL — Comments (0)
- Are you conservative? — Comments (0)
- Best Way to Profit — Comments (0)
- A Thousand Decisions — Comments (5)
- A close shave — Comments (0)
- Sell More at Trade Shows — Comments (1)
- The Federal budget for renovators — Comments (0)
- Ontario WSIB truth — Comments (1)
- Tired of working 60 hours plus a week? — Comments (0)
- Where’s Personal Responsibility? — Comments (0)
- Why ‘R value’ is not accurate — Comments (3)
- Working for a pay cheque or building a business? — Comments (0)
- Lead Follow-Up — Comments (0)
- Getting the pulse from Home Renovation Contractors in 2012 — Comments (0)
- Maybe You Need a Different Perspective. — Comments (0)
- It’s All In The Presentation — Comments (0)
- Stop trying to be a business — Comments (0)
- It’s All About The Lawn Sign — Comments (0)
- It’s definitely about the lawn sign — Comments (0)
- The Great Untouched Renovation Market! — Comments (0)
- Contracting in the City of Canals — Comments (0)
- Craftsmanship in Venice — Comments (0)
- To Systemize or Not To Systemize — Comments (0)
- Craftsmanship Time Warp — Comments (0)
