The Home Building and Remodeling Show

Send a text Talk to your clients and build trust by being transparent and doing what you say you will.: Christy discusses how she deals with clients that change their mind a lot or need a lot of direction in order to make a decision. She stresses the importance of boundaries in order to maintain a good relationship with the client.: The home building and remodeling show is about residential constr...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we discuss tips and tricks for lead generation.  Using a yard sign for every job creates awareness. Do you pay fir online leads from one of the lead generation companies? Painting cabinets with a brush by starting in one spot, smooth it out, go in a different direction. We discuss how the contractor and designer should confirm th...

Send a text In this episode, we cover the best practices for home building and remodeling, discuss the different types of business entities, and discuss the steps necessary to obtain a business license. Interior designers help new construction projects by getting a client's vision and style down on paper and helping to ensure the project goes smoothly from start to finish.: Number one: Pay th...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show, we discuss the 10 hidden costs of building a home prior to construction even beginning.  Some future home building clients are not fully aware of all of the costs it takes to get the preconstruction done before building a home.  We break down each cost and explain why it is necessary. We then discuss how passion in your job can...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show, we start off discussing branding yourself and company and discuss why I started Contractor University.  We then sit and talk about women in construction as our lead painter discusses her story of 25 years in construction.  We then talk with Courtney on of interior designers about floor coverings and composite materials.  We have...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Buidling and Remodeling Show we start off with a discussion on online marketing for contractors and how Google and Facebook are a must.  And now Tik Tok can be a relevant source for building your online presence and branding yourself and your company.  We pick up on the discussion of leveling up in the construction industry and discuss how learning a trade g...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we start off with a discussion about the importance of being visible online as a contractor.  It creates awareness and in today's world where everyone goes online to look for information and products. We then move into a discussion on leveling up in the construction industry and how each role brings on new responsibilities a...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we jump into the #1 reason why residential construction projects fail.  We offer solid strategies on how to overcome the communication gap as well we talk about the international residential codebook and its consolidated version the code check book.  The code check book is a consolidated version of the IRC and is much easier to f...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show, our project manager Adam discusses his construction journey starting from framing houses until now.  He talks about labor work, transitioning to selling cars, and how drugs impacted his life.  We also discuss how using separators makes your construction company unique and how not to sweat the maintaining a 5.0 review.  www.theho...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we discuss things that separate you from the competition that Chris calls the "separators".  We actually dive into the things we have done in our business to create that separation.  We then discuss 5 tips for designing a bathroom.  And honestly, I've learned something from this discussion thinking non-traditionall...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we discuss hiring best practices that we have implemented overtime to help us make the right hires. We also discuss how to Make sure you stick to what you're good at and become known for it so you can attract better clients and leverage your skills to make more money. Stick to your niche and don't stray from it unless y...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we start off with a discussion on changing the narrative on construction as a career.  We dive into the negative connotation associated with construction because it seems to be a second choice or alternative because a person couldn’t get a job doing something else.  We discuss how we want to celebrate construction, specifically h...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we talk about house plans, engineers, and how the online plans aren’t the best option to use because of their lack of details.  We then break down how schedule and plan jobs and our employee retention efforts.  Most times the online plans are very generic and leave the client as well as the builder having to guess on so many diff...

Send a text In this episode of the Home Building and Remodeling Show we discuss long term success and one of our project managers discusses how it feels to be a project manager in the home building industry.  We dig deep into a discussion on punch lists and the treaded never ending punch list.  When doing a home building or remodeling project a punch list, which a list of things at that the owner...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we discuss what it means to dominate the market in your industry and how to remodel a bathroom.  I give my thoughts on how you can learn and grow to beat out competition in your local market and industry by discussing best practices.  We also dig deep on the process of a bathroom remodel.  We give tips and tricks and go into prod...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show, we discuss how we grew our contracting business and why I wanted a team around me.  We discuss how hiring for culture is best and how we struggled through a ton of employees until we figured this out.  We discuss contracting as a first choice as a career.  Finally, we give an in-depth discussion about how we estimate a custom ho...

Send a text In this episode of The Home Building and Remodeling Show we discuss why it is imperative for a builder or remodeler to help with the preconstruction steps in order to make sure the client moves forward with build or remodel.  Then we discuss why it is so hard for a custom home builder to give a price per sqft right off of the bat when asked by a client.  We dig into the make-up of a ho...

Send a text In this week's episode of the home building and remodeling show, we discuss the importance of finding your niche in remodeling and sticking to it.  We also talk about the process of building barndominiums.  The remodeling and home building industry is tough as it is so going outside of what your comfortable doing as a contractor can lead to company failure.  Become known for somet...

Send a text In episode 2 of the home building and remodeling show, we discuss proper licensing for contractors and why it matters.  We also discuss clients being without a kitchen or bathroom during a kitchen remodel or bathroom remodel and how it can affect the contractor/client relationship if a remodel is not planned and coordinated properly.  And we end the show with a segment on Business Netw...

Send a text In this episode of the home building and remodeling show we introduce the Host Chris Kerby and talk about his 3 construction companies and how they were started and where they are now with discussions on growth. We also discuss estimating for remodeling.  We talk about how passionate the host is and we cover exactly what type of joy a contractor can bring to a client in need.  Support...