Local Developer, HOA and City Officials Screw Homeowner

Homeowner’s Lot Slides Away

Consumer Information is King

A very good article from Sam Rashkin regarding home buyers finally waking up to the need to demand quality homes.

Consumer Information is King

Spider Bites

Spider Bites

Mike Holmes: Make sure the home inspector you hire has the knowledge needed to do the job right

Mike Holmes holds forth on home inspectors, and for a change, we agree.

A Peek Behind the Builder Marketing Curtain

Sam Rashkin holds forth on home builder marketing.

Kitchen Fires

Kitchen Fires

The number one cause of home fires and injuries is kitchen fires. Improper use of cooking equipment and a lack of adherence to safe cooking rules are to blame. All of these fires and injuries are easily preventable. Educate yourself. Do not become a statistic.

http://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/causes/cooking/safety-messages-about-cooking

http://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/causes/cooking

http://www.redcross.org/news/article/Avoid-Kitchen-Fires-Use-Red-Cross-Tips

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/2013/Kitchen-Fires-1-in-New-Report-Smoke-Alarms-and-Escape-Plans-Key-to-Surviving-Fires-in-the-Home/

Some possibly helpful technology, since most of the state’s governors seem to have attended former Texas Governor Rick Perry’s prayer meeting where it was decided on high that Texans do not need fire suppression sprinkler systems in their homes.

http://guardianssi.com/products/guardian-iii/

http://www.denlarhoods.com/products-main/1000-series

http://www.homesensers.com/index.html

https://www.stoveguardintl.com/

http://www.cookstop.com/home.html

https://www.pioneeringtech.com/store/commercial/safe-t-element/

PLAYING WITH FIRE

PLAYING WITH FIRE

Code or no code, cost or no cost, fire safety is an issue builders and manufacturers can’t afford not to get right—now

Piping for New Construction – Plastic vs. Copper

Piping for New Construction: Plastic vs. Copper

What Do We Know – What Should We Do?

Newer, Better Windows on the Horizon

Hopefully, this newer type of windows will supplant the current leader – vinyl windows, which are replete with problems.

A New Material World Will Pultruded Fiberglass Melt Vinyl’s Market Share?

Exodus of Construction Workers

Where Did All of the Construction Workers Go?