The way that door and window products qualify for tax credits has changed. Here's what you need to know.
Several manufacturers are offering products and insight that can help remodelers protect their clients’ homes during the hurricane season.
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Steve Platt, also known as The Storm Door Guy, installs nothing but storm doors in his Twin Cities market. Platt once offered a broad selection of storm doors on his website, StormDoorInstaller.com. Now he offers just two.
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Regardless of whether your state or jurisdiction has already adopted the 2009 IECC, remodelers need to be familiar with the new code if they intend to take advantage of remodeling-related provisions of the economic stimulus package.
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A potential superstar going through an extremely ungainly stage: That might summarize how some remodelers are viewing the energy tax credits and other home-improvement incentives in President Obama’s economic stimulus package, at least at this relatively early stage of the game.
New products for the exterior and replacement markets from a range of manufacturers.
Premium fiberglass-clad wood windows combine good looks with energy efficiency and durability. The exterior fiberglass cladding is available in seven color choices.
Like the maker's eClad Architectural Series, the proClad series offers aluminum-clad casement, double-hung, and horizontal slider windows with 5/8-inch insulated glass and a range of design options.
Andersen's 100 Series windows contain a minimum of 18% pre-consumer recycled glass and wood-fiber content by constructing frames from its patented polymer-wood fiber composite Fibrex material.
The maker has added Lyptus hardwood, an exotic species grown to sustainable forest certification standards, to its interior wood species custom options.