As of April, 2010, the EPA has required the use of Lead Safe Practices to prevent lead poisoning. While training and certification to comply with specific work practices is mandated; having lead poisoning insurance is not

Who’s going to fix your house now? Much has been said about the EPA lead rule, old news now and I for one am glad to move on, lets just deal with it, after all its mostly about using cleaner work practices. By The Paul What’s coming next concerns me more, non compliant companies working [...]

Whoa! Design is sometimes a figment of someones imagination. A need to make a statement overcomes common sense and more money than taste will drive a projects look. Here’s what happens when we design for the sake of design and we build for art rather than people. Interesting buildings are produced that stretch the structural [...]

Who be Blue? “Blue” is Brock Patterson the owner of Blue Ribbon Construction in Wichita, Kansas. An independent and capable guy, Brock has tried his hand at a few things to finally end up being a General Contractor and a Remodel Crazy member, here’s a little about “Blue”. Brock went to college on a football [...]

Short and sweet, You can go Green with an FHA 203k home loan. Find a property, roll the purchase and rehab costs into one assumable mortgage. The FHA 203k loan allows you to do an Energy Efficient Mortgage. Find a house, fix it up with new appliances, windows, insulation and more. Go to www.203kloanmn.com or [...]

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. By the Paul As we approach the Earth Day celebration we also can mark our calendars as the day most contractors went to work as outlaws, rule breakers, endangerment specialists. As an industry we will not have met the minimum requirements for [...]