At Levco, we are planners. We hate to jump in without knowing what the heck we are doing for a client. To date, the Design-Build model has worked extremely well for us. However, a recent situation caused me to pause and sort out a sticky situation. The story went like...
A fellow remodeler implored me to use the Brewster Higley poem "Home, home on the range" technique when selling a project. "Where never is heard a discouraging word and the clouds are not cloudy all day". I am not a fan, honesty has always been my policy. For the...
A good friend, mentor, and nationally known expert in the remodeling field, Shawn McCadden coined the phrase "Mutual Mystification". The more I use it in conversation, the more it just rolls off my tongue. Shawn used it to describe what I am trying to combat by...
We recently completed an addition with a twist. Many have done drive by's of our project on Five Mile Road. Few have commented on our amazing structural engineering feat. This is rare and not something that happens every day. Granted it looks pretty normal to the...
All plumbing fixtures have some sort of trap, otherwise they will permit foul odors to return back into the home. Traps are what made indoor plumbing possible. In order for water to move through your drain side of the plumbing system toward the sewage treatment plant,...
As part of our regular remodeling responsibilities, Levco is asked to match up all sorts of original things in homes. This project did not seem like anything out of the ordinary. There had been a flood and some of the ornate stained knotty alder baseboard had been...
