Discussion Forum
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Material Escalation Clause
With the volitility in the price of building materials at an all time high, does anyone have wording for an Escalation Clause they include with their remodeling contracts?
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Rental Rehab
It seems that I'm growing in my sideline of rehabbing lower-income multi family homes and holding them as rental properties. Now at 20 units, full time employee. I have partnered…
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Help! Door stand for interior work
I am not a finish carpenter but have a couple good size projects coming that I'm doing the finish on and require me to upgrade my efficiency. I saw an…
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Free water press gauges, Dutch Boy flux
My wife got a grab box at an auction from a defunct hardware store among other things... and it had more than my lifetime supply of a couple of items. …
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Entry locks for multi-family rentals
Are there lockset systems available wherein 1) you can change the key a tenant has for a unit and 2) there is a master key for every lock in your…
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vinyl siding fasteners w/ air tool?
Is there a faster way to install vinyl siding than hammering nails? i.e. roofing nailer, staple gun, nailer? I'm not sure which fastener might be appropriate with tools I have.…
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Construction for Hard Living
My wife and I have taken a pretty big plunge, and it involves her and I being business partners in a venture as well as married. So I don't know…
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Construction story
I have a job that we're excavating through an area I thought might have buried debris, so I did some research to know how to bid the work. It runs…
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[email protected]
Dan, you had sent me a message but the e-mail address has been undeliverable for several days. Sorry to post this in a public forum but I don't know a…
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cost effective vandalism fix?
My wife and I purchased our first investment property at auction Saturday. Scared us both on one level, but exciting too. The house has never been lived in and is…
Reader Projects
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Kitchen
Our Client asked us to remodel their Kitchen into a functional space, where they could entertain their guests.Their existing Kitchen island was big, but not functional in a sense to…
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Master Bathroom
Our Clients travel quite a bit for business so they want their home to be an oasis where they stay home to relax and feel like they're at a…
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Master Bathroom
This Master Bathroom needed to be a luxury vacation spa at home. The first thing that had to change was to move the Walk in Closet door outside of the…
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Kitchen
Client wanted a new Country style Kitchen that reflected design concepts seen in magazines.Before the Kitchen remodel, the Kitchen was closed off, our client wanted the Kitchen to have an…
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Kitchen
This Kitchen project was part of a Whole House remodel. Our Clients wanted an open floor plan with a contemporary style Kitchen as a focal point but separate from the…