Voices

July 3, 2019
The Myths of Contracting Part 2: Cash work saves your customer sales tax

June 17, 2019
The Myths of Contracting Part 1: When your price is greater than your costs, you profit!

June 15, 2019
Part 4 of What Steve Said! Working with your team

June 12, 2019
Part 3 of What Steve Said! Everything starts with a business plan

June 12, 2019
YES! Payroll is expensive! Listen to the bookkeeper we all need!

June 10, 2019
When you know just how irrational your customers really are, you can sleep till noon.

June 4, 2019
Part 2 of What Steve Said! Steve Barkhouse on mistakes and the passion it takes to overcome them

May 27, 2019
Conservative Contractor? Us? A reader accuses us of right-wing media bias

May 24, 2019
A review of Ontario’s WSIB includes testing its efficiency against private sector insurance providers. It’s a test it can’t pass.

May 17, 2019
Code changes that could save thousand$ Why they can’t—or won’t—get done even when they are smart, cost effective and timely

May 16, 2019
The problem employee: “He is stuck, running at about 60 per cent efficiency, dreading every day but doing the best he can.”

May 16, 2019
Perfectionism versus excellence

May 10, 2019
Carpenters unions against the cash-deal industry? They are creating the problem in the first place, he argues

May 10, 2019
Are the unions really interested in legit workplaces – or their job security?

May 10, 2019
Comment about Bleasby’s article “kicking our addiction to A/C”

May 3, 2019
Before you frame a shower enclosure, do this…

May 3, 2019
Two words that can improve your business – and your life – beyond measure

April 29, 2019
Passive House building is great building

April 29, 2019
Quebec contractors in six trades can work in Ontario without bothering with OCOT, Questo points out

April 18, 2019
Water leaking in from the highest part of a basement built on bedrock?

April 18, 2019
Sub trade asks for advice on how to get paid by his GC

April 12, 2019
Can you open two companies to minimize WSIB premiums, reader asks

April 12, 2019
A cousin of one of Mike Holmes’ crews has a message to all the critics…

April 5, 2019
Not everyone thought all of our April Fool’s articles were funny. For example…

April 5, 2019
Even veteran construction safety expert Alec Caldwell got taken in by our April Fool’s fake news story on Mike Holmes

April 5, 2019
Our fake Mike Holmes story for April 1st ruffled feathers of a resident near Meadow Lake, SK

March 29, 2019
Reply from Casey Edge on how to educate public officials on housing facts

March 29, 2019
Casey Edge’s article on government “downloading” was exactly right

March 22, 2019
Client complains about his “unregistered” cash-deal contractor who did substandard, unfinished work

March 15, 2019
Kudos for the HomeStars Awards