Check out these great tools for your business from HousingZone.com iHandy Carpenter – iHandy Soft There are five tools in this carpenter tool kit: plumb bob, surface level, bubble level bar, steel protractor, and steel ruler. $1.99 Spacing Calc – By Laurie Davis Siding a wall, shingling a roof, laying...
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In an article on BuildingScience.com – Building Science Insights – Seeing Red Over Green Roofs – Joseph Lstiburek talks about how Building Green is a huge misnomer…and that it is a sensitive subject with many builders. “It is dumb to do a green roof to save...
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[caption id="attachment_102" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Credit: Courtesy Joon-Ho Choi"][/caption] While he was a university student, Joon-Ho Choi worked in a hospital, where he noticed that patients—especially those in intensive care—rarely have much control over their environments. “They are subjected to temperature and lighting conditions that are set...
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[caption id="attachment_105" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rich Testa of RE/MAX Advance"][/caption] When Robert and Marguerite Antell told architect James Johnson they wanted to build a fun, artistic home, he handed the couple a coke bottle with a flowering sprig of Queen Anne’s lace. “This is your new home,”...
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Throughout the United States, thousands of students are spending the majority of the day in unhealthy and aging portable classrooms. Not only is their presence required, students are expected to thrive and flourish educationally in such environments. “The aging infrastructure of K–12 schools throughout the...
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A survey of home buyers shows that spec-home customers are much less satisfied than those purchasing “to-be-built” homes. Customer-satisfaction expert Charlie Scott offers tips for driving referrals from your inventory home buyers. By Charlie Scott, Woodland, O’Brien and Scott – August 7, 2011 – HousingZone.com In a market...
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By Jonathan Sweet, Editor in Chief HousingZone.com September 1, 2011 As the unemployment rate stays stubbornly high and housing remains mired in recession, several proposals have come down the pike lately on how to jumpstart a recovery in both areas. Here’s a look at a few...
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Inexpensive, easily adaptable, and striking, color is a powerful tool in the right hands. Too often it’s a casualty as home designs are reduced to the blandest common denominator; a strategic burst of color in small details or sculptural statements can lend vibrancy to your...
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Chicago-based HousingZone and Bizy to launch first-ever, publisher-led business-to-business deals program, serving home builders, remodelers and contractors HousingZone, the leading online portal for home builders, remodelers and contractors, and Bizy LLC, operator of co-branded vertical industry deal sites and BizyDeal.com, today announced the launch of HousingZone...
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When coming over to the US, you have a couple items to pay attention to so you can eventually get a Mortgage. I will go over the specific things to address when you move to the United States and how to be better prepared for...
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