“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” – Benjamin Franklin

Upgrading Your Aging Andersen Windows

By Clay Gilmore Andersen Window and Door Products are backed by an excellent support system for maintaining and upgrading the older double hungs, casements, awnings, and doors. When evaluating your clients property consider having them upgrade their old Narrowline and Tiltwash windows. Narrowline double hung units can have the balance boxes replaced restoring the spring Read More

Tool Box Talks: Don’t Use Electrical Tape to Repair / Splice Cords

  By John Howell It seems logical that a roll of electrical tape could be used to safely repair a frayed or damaged flexible electrical cord, or to splice two pieces of a flexible electrical cord back together; I mean it’s called electrical tape, right? However, Federal OSHA electrical safety standards actually do not allow Read More

Lumber Update – October 2018

By Paul Rogers After an almost ten-week downward slide, the market caught in August as the pace of business was strong and buyers were looking to cover their needs for September. Although there was much consternation as to when the market would turn (as there seemed to be ample inventory throughout the supply chain), news Read More

You Get What You Inspect, Not What You Expect!

By Tony Shepley In Moscow during World War 2, there lived a university statistics professor. During air raids, he was known by his friends never to bother with air raid shelters. By his calculations, the odds were minute that he would ever be killed by a German bomb. One night, his friends were shocked, when, Read More