With the housing market in disarray, remodeling has usurped new building as the major residential construction activity in Livingston County.
Livingston County resident and Alpha Remodeling President Allan Lutes said major remodeling projects with a value of $50,000 or more have fallen 50-70 percent from where they were two years ago. But the market for remodeling [...]
Consumers are hearing the latest buzz words — Basement Remodeling go green — all around.
Building green is becoming more and more popular in the construction industry and Dick Bosacker is proud to say his company has been in this market for 25 years.
Liteform’s insulated concrete forms (ICF) for poured basement walls Basement Remodeling was one [...]
EDMOND — Plans for several new apartment and condominium projects in the Edmond area this year have city officials and real estate firms touting the health of Edmond’s multifamily housing market.
William Forrest, first vice president of CB Richard Ellis-Oklahoma, who has researched Edmond’s multifamily housing market, has even gone so far as to call 2008 [...]
This was the second wettest winter on record and that has certain local businesses flooded with calls a few months early.
The four crews from Basement De-Watering Systems are busy repairing concrete foundations.
Doryan Konhorst said, “It was very busy this year. Starting at the end of December it’s been the busiest winter we’ve ever had.”
The multiple [...]
“I wanted to show that if we just fine-tune our building practices and use the same materials we’ve always used, we can beat moisture issues,” said Engel, who since the March article has become an editor at Fine Woodworking maga-zine.
Because I’m interested in turning my barren, poured-concrete basement into living space some time soon, I’ve [...]
Groaning under the post-holiday hangover of maxed-out credit cards, consumers this month are being deluged with sales pitches offering no-interest deals on high-ticket items they couldn’t afford in December.
The interest-free, deferred-payment offers that routinely pop up in January can easily make that big-screen television you hoped was under the tree or a new dining room [...]
If you are looking for basement renovation ideas the Internet is a great place to visit for inspiration and practical if not often sage advice. While you are the only one who can decide what is the perfect plan for your space or how you wish to use that space, but seeing the work that [...]
Not everyone has a basement, but if you are lucky enough to have one then you can create an extension of your living area. They can be extensions of family rooms as they can be made into a library or an extra bedroom. They can create an area to fulfill a specific function, such as [...]
If you’ve got a basement you could be using it as a utility room, a games room or possibly even an extra bed-room or living room. Which ever one you’re currently using it for, from time to time almost inevitably it’s tempting to dump things in it, even if just temporarily until they can be [...]
When it comes to DIY basement remodeling projects, there’s one key factor you need to consider before getting started: how are you going to take care of that disgusting humidity that always seems to linger in basements? If you’re planning on making the basement into a real living space for people to spend time in, [...]