Jim of All Trades

5 Things You Should Know About Building A Home

Building a new home can be just as exciting as it is complex and stressful. If you properly plan out the project and try to avoid mistakes, you can ensure the house stays within your budget and desired timeline.

Designing and Building Your Own Home? Make Sure To Follow These Tips

Designing and building a home is a long, complex process. And if it’s your first time going through the process, it can be hard to know how to set yourself up for success. What should you do during the design and build process to ensure the final product is the home you want? A recent…

How Much Does Concrete Cost Per Cubic Yard? Current Ready Mix Concrete Prices

How much does concrete cost. This is a current ready mix concrete company's price list. It lists the cost of a yard of concrete and other concrete additives like fibermesh and accelerators.

5 Secrets Your Contractor Doesn’t Want You to Know

You think of your general contractor as an ally and partner — but he’s a primarily a businessman who may not reveal all his secrets.

What to Look for in a Contractor's Contract

10 basic ingredients for a contract will help pave the way to remodel happiness

Why There Are Diamonds on Tape Measures

In a perfect world, you could use the red marks to identify the placement of the studs. To locate a center between the studs, simply find the black diamond.

For the Jack of All Trades!

The urban welder is a jack of all trades. A little of this, and a little of that. And, of course, his or her work always includes some w...

Young B.C. welder tried the trades and never looked back

When Natasha Kao was 23 she was going to university studying commerce. But when she got a chance to work with her hands as a welder helper, everything changed.

Masters of Many Trades

From aviation to table tennis, we talk to harpists who have achieved great heights in fields that couldn’t be further from the harp. —by Christa Grix

Are You a Jill or Jack of All Trades?

If you consider yourself a Jill or Jack of all trades, you’re probably an entrepreneur. The clincher is that along with that handle comes the inevitable “master of none.” It’s an undeserved close to the phrase. Most of us are capable of much more than...

This clinic trades used needles for new ones in a first-of-its kind program

The IDEA exchange is in the heart of the University of Miami health district and Overtown, which has been ravaged by the heroin epidemic.The clinic should help cut back the millions of dollars Jackson Memorial Hospital spends on treating people who’ve used dirty needles.

6 Uses for Glycerine, a Jack-of-all-trades Wonder Compound

All Trades Improvement, "A.T.I."

Kitchen & Bath Experts!A.T.I. is a California Licensed small remodeling & home improvement business, with a General Contractors License and a Specialty Tile License (#546681) going back to 1988. A.T.I. offers a personalized quality service from design to finish, with an unblemished record s

10 Reasons to Get Your Skilled Trades Career Training at Centura College

If you are looking for skilled trades career training, here are 10 reasons that Centura College should be on your list of considerations.

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Late 1800s workers pose with the tools of their trades

The affordability of the tintype photo process allowed everyday carpenters and masons to have their portraits taken with their trusty saws and spades.

Trades by Robot cost Hong Kong businessman $20mn, who does he sue?

A Hong Kong tycoon is now going after the salesman who persuaded him to entrust a chunk of his fortune to the supercomputer.