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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
Sept. 1: Certified Kitchen and Bath Remodeler (CKBR) The CKBR prep course is a facilitated program that will build your knowledge in the areas of residential remodeling specific to kitchen and bathrooms. The virtual prep course will run every Thursday for twelve weeks;
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Central.
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Sept. 12: Certified Remodeler, Certified Remodeler Associate and Certified Remodeler Specialist (CR, CRA, CRS) The CR/CRA/CRS study group will fine-tune your competencies in all areas essential to success as a residential remodeling professional. The virtual prep course will run every Monday for twelve weeks; 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Central.
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Did you win a 2016 National CotY award? If so, you have scholarship money that can be applied toward new certification fees. Call or email Cindy; (847)298-9200 or cfoley@nari.org, for any inquiries.
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
 Winning a CotY (Contractor of the Year) Award can help you market the great work that your company does and show the nation just how good you are. The program is open for entries for projects completed between December 1, 2014 and November 30, 2016. All NARI remodelers are invited to participate in this annual competition. The final deadline to submit an entry is December 5, 2016.
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Professional Remodeler
Join more than 100 female executives and managers from top firms across residential construction, including NARI Chairwoman of the Board, Judy Mozen, CR, GCP, for Building Together: Women in Residential Construction, Sept. 28-30 in Scottsdale, AZ. NARI members receive a discounted registration fee by entering the code NARI.
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Since 1983, The HELPcard has provided an avenue for businesses to flourish by offering an affordable monthly payment option. The HELPcard specializes in prime and non-prime credit so you grow your business by providing consumers a fresh source of funds. Decisions are made instantly allowing work to start immediately.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
 As an Industry Partner, NARI members have access to expanded services and savings such as dedicated account support, jobsite delivery, customized billing, competitive product pricing, volume discounts and more. Plus, participating NARI members receive an annual 2 percent rebate on pre-tax purchases* through Home Depot’s Pro Xtra program. Saving is simple. Visit here to register any form of payment (credit/debit cards, Home Depot accounts, checking accounts, etc.) to your company’s Pro Xtra account using the agreement code NARI.
For assistance enrolling call 866-333-3551 or watch this short video.
*After meeting a $10,000 annual purchase minimum, the rebate is paid from the first dollar.
By Michael J. Berens
 Design activity weakened slightly in the second quarter, even as demand for remodeling and renovation services increased. The dip in design business may be attributable to a number of factors, including fluctuations in the housing market and concern about the economy — conditions that have since improved. Yet another reason for the decline appears to be a change in consumer behavior, with homeowners opting to spend less on design and more on upgrades.
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Contractor Connection is the nation’s largest managed repair and remodeling network, comprising 5,000 growth-minded contractors serving large membership associations who partner with us to provide their members access to our network. Our contractors are held accountable not only through our stringent credentialing process but also through ongoing performance management.
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Popular Mechanics
Ever wonder what's inside your wall? Sure you have, who hasn't needed to find a stud? A new app and device, Walabot DIY, lets you find much much more than just that, including wires, studs, pipes, plastic, rodents, and anything else that would get in the way of your latest efforts.
Walabot is product of Vayyar, a 3D-sensor imaging company.
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Pro Remodeler
There’s a wisecrack that home improvement company owners and sales managers like to make at seminars and similar gatherings. Home improvement selling, they will say — yuck, yuck — is a hard way to make an easy living.
That makes the point that it’s not for the faint of heart. The most successful home improvement salespeople will walk out of the house with a signed contract on maybe one out of every three confirmed appointments.
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Builder
Calculated Risk's Bill McBride reports via an update that framing lumber prices remain up year-over-year, after a steady decrease since early 2013 when prices came close to housing bubble highs.
Increases in 2013 were attributed to a surge in demand with more housing starts, and supply constraints as framing lumber suppliers worked to bring more capacity online. Prices didn't increase much in early 2014, as supply grew with a smaller "surge" in demand.
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Remodeling
There’s a school of thought that believes we’re silly to compile the Remodeling 550, the annual list of the top remodeling firms based on sales revenue. Remodeling pros don’t care about size, proponents of this argument say because they don’t have big egos and they believe the only metric that matters isn’t how much you take in but rather how much revenue you keep.
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Popular Mechanics
Ryan D'Agostino writes: On freezing cold winter days, my wife does this endearing thing where she walks around the house wearing a full-length parka with a big, furry hood. I ask her if she's going out. "Maybe," she says. "It's probably warmer out there." Then I usually say something about how oil doesn't grow on trees, and in the old days they used to wrap themselves in animal pelts when it got cold, or at least they would weave sweaters, and we have a lot of sweaters, which we didn't even have to weave.
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ProTradeCraft
Step one in steep slope roofing is the edge flashing.
One common method is to lay the edge metal under the eaves membrane, and over the rake membrane. The layering uses gravity to direct water out of the assembly.
Another way is to storm proof the edge by folding the membrane down over the gap between roof deck and fascia, layering metal flashing on top sealed with another strip of flashing membrane.
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Pew Research Center
The number and share of Americans living in multigenerational family households has continued to rise, even though the Great Recession is now in the rearview mirror. In 2014, a record 60.6 million people, or 19 percent of the U.S. population, lived with multiple generations under one roof, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of census data.
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