Brian Peppel, a homeowner in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, attends one building-supply auction every month in nearby Lancaster County. His latest finds include two pallets of concrete block for $10 and a solid-wood prehung exterior door for $65. “If a house owner needs to demo a deck, properly, I am sure they’ll deal with that,” says Michael Winn, proprietor of Winn Design, in Virginia. “But in terms of inside areas, I would dissuade them from doing it unless they’ve done it earlier than.”
- While renovating a Civil War-era bed-and-breakfast in New Jersey some years back, contractor Bill Asdal needed wooden flooring.
- Erik Listou, a founder of the Living in Place Institute, knowledgeable coaching firm, said about 200 individuals have taken its Certified Living in Place Professional class, which started a few year in the past.
- In addition to environmentally retrofitting the buildings towards extreme weather occasions, the development companions additionally partnered with