NARI, NAHB, NKBA and aaargh! By the Paul Because of a question posed by another contractor at a home show yesterday I explained my EIEIO certification. Excellence In Everything I Offer. Link To This Page1. Click inside the codebox2. Right-Click then Copy3. Paste the HTML code into your webpage codebox<a href="http://www.remodelcrazy.com/2010/headline/the-alphabet-soup-we-serve-up-or-why-i-am-an-eieio.html">The Alphabet Soup We Serve [...]

Oh man, another scholarly guy’s book on tradesmen. By The Paul Matthew Crawford is a scholar, his book celebrates the sureness and easy intelligence of people who work with their hands, Link To This Page1. Click inside the codebox2. Right-Click then Copy3. Paste the HTML code into your webpage codebox<a href="http://www.remodelcrazy.com/2010/contractor-articles/rc-book-review-shop-class-as-soulcraft-by-mathew-crawford.html">RC Book Review- Shop Class [...]

Mark-up and Overhead by Randy Austin (Owner & President) Field Service Solutions (fieldservicesoft.com) How to calculate exactly what an employee costs you per hour What percentage to use to mark up your jobs based on your job costs, overhead and profit goals.. How to use these percentages to mark up your jobs to arrive at [...]

Tomboy Tools comes to Mpls………………….. The Paul met the Tomboy Tools crew at the Mpls Home Show today and guessed what the funny looking tool was for. Nice woman and we talked a little and shared a laugh. I was given a tool and asked what it was, damned if I know so I just [...]

By The Paul “Do you give free estimates”? If you say yes that’s a big fat lie. If you don’t charge for estimates the truth then is, the people that hire you pay for the free estimates of the people that don’t hire you. Link To This Page1. Click inside the codebox2. Right-Click then Copy3. [...]

Kitchensync and The Paul let the Happy Feet Meet By the Paul Kelly Morisseau and I talk from time to time, both of us seem to have found our place in the big picture of life Link To This Page1. Click inside the codebox2. Right-Click then Copy3. Paste the HTML code into your webpage codebox<a [...]