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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
 Festool Roadshow – Keeping the Craft Alive
Eugen Gasmann of Festool discusses Festool Roadshow's mission to keep the craft trades alive.
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Read the upsides and downsides to various business structures: Sole Proprietorships, LLCs, C-corps, S-corps and Partnerships.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
NARI heads to sunny San Diego April 10-12, 2019 for the annual meeting that includes the Evening of Excellence where the 2019 National CotY Award winners are announced. The festivities will be taking place at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside. REGISTER NOW
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
The Universal Design Certified Professional (UDCP) and Certified Remodeling Project Manager (CRPM) certification online prep courses are coming up on June 4th and 5th respectively. Don’t miss this chance to boost your project management and universal design skill set and validate your professionalism through NARI Certification.
Check out the 2019 certification prep course and study group schedule here.
Read these first-hand accounts from NARI Certified Professionals.
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As open floor plans continue to grow in popularity, homeowners want more choices that reflect their personal style. GE Appliances offers more premium finishes than anyone to match the unique taste of every homeowner—from Stainless and Black Stainless to Slate and Black Slate.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
Proper Sealant Selection for Window and Door Applications
March 26th at 12 pm Central Time
To create an effective building envelope, all penetrations in the exterior shell must be well sealed. This is especially true around windows and doors. Poor air sealing around windows and doors can allow the uncontrolled movement of air to infiltrate and exit the building increasing energy costs, reducing comfort, and negatively impacting indoor air quality.
This learning unit will specifically look at the industry compliance standards in residential construction related to air sealing around windows and doors, the best choice in air sealing products available today, and additional resources available to learn more about air sealing around windows and doors.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the importance of air sealing around windows and doors
- List specific industry specifications related to air sealing around windows and doors
- Explain to customers the importance of using the right building product for the required specification when air sealing windows and doors
- Utilize additional resources related to best practices in air sealing windows and doors
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Remodeling Mastery Podcast
In this episode, Mark talks through the recent Reuters poll of economists that says there's a 25 percent chance of a recession later this year or early into 2020 and what this means for the industry. He has 7 tips listeners aren't going to want to miss.
Mark also interviews Josh Kelly who is the founding member of RevuKangaroo and former Marketing Director for Parker & Sons. Together, they talk through Josh's story of scaling his business and how to work with a family dynamic in the business.
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The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance, a newly formed coalition of organizations with ties to the U.S. cabinet industry, has initiated one of the largest trade cases ever filed against China, charging that Chinese unfair trade practices in cabinet and vanity manufacturing and exporting are undermining the businesses of U.S. suppliers and doing harm to American workers.
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Pro Remodeler
There’s a popular saying: “As California goes, so goes the nation.” Nowhere is that more true than in design where Cali tends to signal what’s in store for future trends across the country.
Jackson Design & Remodeling is based in San Diego, and as a large, higher-end remodeler we have a lot of touchpoints in the design community. That puts us in a unique position to spot upcoming trends. To that end, I recently sat down with Tatiana Machado-Rosas, who heads up our design department. She had some great insights and trend predictions for 2019. Here are four standouts
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Pro Remodeler
You want to push the envelope and take on projects that grow your business, but not every job fits the bill. Saying “yes” to the wrong ones can hurt your bottom line. There are three major signs that you should say “no” to a project:
When Personalities and Attitudes Clash we use a prequalifying questionnaire to guide the conversation with potential clients and determine if it’s a good fit. We want discussions to feel natural, but having preset questions helps make sure all the boxes get checked. Some questions include:
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Pro Remodeler
Spending on
remodeling activity hit a record of nearly $425 billion in 2017 as homebuilding struggled to meet the nation's growing housing needs following the Great Recession, according to Improving America's Housing 2019, a report produced every two years by the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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Remodeling
Every stage of growth for a business starts with discomfort, moves to a more comfortable state as you resolve challenges, and then evolves back to discomfort once you’ve outgrown your systems. Don’t confuse solving problems with creating systems; a system not only solves a problem, it prevents future ones. This article is about deliberately creating a system for managing growth that is tailored to your business size and goals.
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Miracle Sealants Levolution is a revolution in Tile Spacing & Leveling Systems for all tiles, especially large format tile. Levolution is an all in one system that can be used for both floor & wall installs. This system is recognized by industry professionals for its best performance. Levolution has the least expensive component cost per square foot and saves up to 51% in labor over other systems.
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Remodeling
The foundation of every computerized estimating system is its database of unit prices. Unit pricing looks at typical project components, such as an exterior wall or a floor system, and calculates the cost per a particular unit of measure, such as a square foot, a square yard, or a linear foot. To develop a unit price, you need to do a stick estimate, but you need to do it only once for each component in your database. The stick estimate system I discussed in the previous issue has all the elements needed to create a unit price.
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Qualified Remodler
Sadly, most remodeling business owners will either never retire or will eventually shut down their business after their physical and/or mental health fails. I don’t think they plan for it to happen that way. The fact that they never proactively planned for retirement is probably the most common reason they never will be able to do so.
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