Home Depot Targeting Millennials with New Service Hub
Retailers all across the building trade are trying to find new ways to reach millennial customers and Home Depot’s New Homeowners Hub is the latest tactic to try. As the millennial generation becomes the center of the housing market, home improvement, furnishings, and building businesses continue to look for new ways to reach out to […]
8th Annual Mass Timber Conference Set for April 2024
As the mass timber movement continues to gain acceptance around the world, the industry will gather in Portland, OR next spring for its annual conference. Eight years ago it was more of a cult than a mainstream building movement but now the mass timber industry has gained widespread acceptance throughout the world and so, its next […]
Kitchen and Bath Project Spending Still Above Pre-Covid Levels
Residential spending on kitchen and bath remodeling may never return to the heights of the pandemic spending frenzy but it is still topping the numbers from 2019. Not surprisingly, homeowners aren’t spending as much on their kitchen and bath remodeling projects this year as they did in 2022 but new numbers from the National Kitchen & […]
ApolloSpray Launches New Precision-6 Pro HVLP Painting System
The new HVLP electric painting system from ApolloSpray features enhanced power and cutting-edge technology. ApolloSpray® proudly unveils the PRECISION-6 PRO, the ultimate TrueHVLP™ painting system for Industrial and Woodworking applications. The PRECISION-6 PRO is designed to deliver precision HVLP technology for a flawless finish, providing users with unmatched power and exclusive features for complete control. […]
Tiny Houses Soon to Hit the Quarter Century Mark
It may not be quite the darling of social media, HGTV and the counterculture but the tiny home movement is about to mark a quarter-century and continues to appeal to a certain homeowner. In 1999, two years after building his own first tiny house, Northern Californian Jay Shafer founded the Tumbleweed Tiny House Co., generally […]
Warren Buffett Likes Home Builders…and Proves It
The world’s most famous – and most closely watched – investor is apparently feeling good about big home building companies and he’s put his money where his mouth is with new major financial commitments. There isn’t an individual investor more closely followed by those who play the stock market and just anyone looking for broader […]
Let’s Get Small, Home Builders Saying
Maybe the tiny home phenomenon has peaked or at least slowed down the past few years but the size of the average American home continues to be a case of the incredible shrinking house. Maybe all those McMansions will eventually end up as historical preservation candidates as the typical American new home continues to get […]
Planes, Trains and Trucks: It’s Getting More Expensive However You Ship Your Goods
We’ve already seen labor settlements with port workers and truckers that will result in higher transportation costs. Now come container costs, seasonal surcharges, and even lower water levels in the Panama Canal. It’s been a tough year if you’re in a business that needs to move its products around the country…and around the world. After […]
A ‘Purpose-Designed’ Handtruck Latest from PaintLine
Long-distance transportation may be challenged but shops have a new solution for transporting newly finished doors: PaintLine’s new purpose-designed Handtruck. PaintLine has just added a “purpose-designed” Handtruck to its recently introduced ProDryingRack Transport (PDRTR) system, which provides a solution for safely and conveniently transporting newly finished cabinet doors. The PDRTR fits up to 20 cabinet […]
California Builders Have a New Challenge: Embodied Carbon Laws
Already the state with the strictest environmental laws in the country, California has enacted new mandatory measures in its building codes to reduce embodied carbon. California has become the first state in the country to enact new building codes that limit carbon emissions in the construction, remodeling, or adaptive use of certain structures. According to […]