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The Myths of Contracting Part 2: Cash work saves your customer sales tax

The Myths of Contracting Part 1: When your price is greater than your costs, you profit!

Part 4 of What Steve Said! Working with your team

Part 3 of What Steve Said! Everything starts with a business plan

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YES! Payroll is expensive! Listen to the bookkeeper we all need!

When you know just how irrational your customers really are, you can sleep till noon.

Part 2 of What Steve Said! Steve Barkhouse on mistakes and the passion it takes to overcome them

Conservative Contractor? Us? A reader accuses us of right-wing media bias

A review of Ontario’s WSIB includes testing its efficiency against private sector insurance providers. It’s a test it can’t pass.

Code changes that could save thousand$ Why they can’t—or won’t—get done even when they are smart, cost effective and timely

The problem employee: “He is stuck, running at about 60 per cent efficiency, dreading every day but doing the best he can.”

Perfectionism versus excellence

Carpenters unions against the cash-deal industry? They are creating the problem in the first place, he argues

Are the unions really interested in legit workplaces – or their job security?

Comment about Bleasby’s article “kicking our addiction to A/C”

Before you frame a shower enclosure, do this…

Two words that can improve your business – and your life – beyond measure

Passive House building is great building

Quebec contractors in six trades can work in Ontario without bothering with OCOT, Questo points out

Water leaking in from the highest part of a basement built on bedrock?

Sub trade asks for advice on how to get paid by his GC

Can you open two companies to minimize WSIB premiums, reader asks

A cousin of one of Mike Holmes’ crews has a message to all the critics…

Not everyone thought all of our April Fool’s articles were funny. For example…

Even veteran construction safety expert Alec Caldwell got taken in by our April Fool’s fake news story on Mike Holmes

Our fake Mike Holmes story for April 1st ruffled feathers of a resident near Meadow Lake, SK

Reply from Casey Edge on how to educate public officials on housing facts

Casey Edge’s article on government “downloading” was exactly right

Client complains about his “unregistered” cash-deal contractor who did substandard, unfinished work

Kudos for the HomeStars Awards

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