Remodeling Insider

Our new ROAD TO RECOVERY series brings more stories each week about how the remodeling industry is coping with the current economic challenges.

  • Energy Audits Drive New Business Plan

    This remodeling business is reblooming this spring, after a revelatory experience in which a once-skeptical builder and remodeler dug deep into energy research and became, in his own words, “an air-sealing zealot.”

     

  • Newsletter Reaches 300 Past Clients

    Bringing back a company newsletter is helping this remodeler reach 300 past clients.

     

  • 30 Years of Business, 30 Days of Giving

    An unusual 30th anniversary celebration serves to remind the local community of one company's honesty, quality, and reliability.

     

  • Remodeling Love Connections

    Seattle-based HomeSavvi offers "speed dating" to help remodelers generate leads.

     

  • Best Seller

    Remodeler Peggy Mackowski used Blurb.com to create a book that highlights her company.

     

  • Establishing Allies

    Aligning with supplier salespeople, subcontractors, and a condominium manager has helped this remodeler nurture his year-old company.

     

  • $100 Million Proposal to Fund Renewable Energy Job Training

    Green-collar jobs: New legislation proposes $100 million in competitive grants for career and technical education for renewable energy.

     

  • Life Lines

    A Detroit remodeler is weathering the economic storm by focusing on smaller jobs, renegotiating rent and insurance contracts, and tracking real estate values.

     
  • Serious Materials Ribbon Cutting(90)

    Spring Sees Window Manufacturers Ramping Up

    Pella and Simonton boost manpower, while Serious Materials adopts two shuttered facilities.

     

  • Reliable Remodelers

    Non-remodelers as remodeling contractors — they're doing the job, but how well?

     
 
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