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- Choosing A Hardwood Flooring Species 2:30pm Jul 21
- Green Building: A Five to Seven Year Forecast 12:23pm Jul 21
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BuildDirect Looking for some musical flooring? Well, there's no such thing - yet, anyway. But one choice you can look into is what's called 'piano finish' laminate flooring. What is that, exactly? Find out with this blog post, and the embedded video. Take a read/have a look!
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As it's been said on this blog many times, and can't be said enough, is that laminate flooring has evolved since it was first invented. There have been many features that make laminate a practical choice in a flooring surface. ...
BuildDirect We've got 200 Facebook fans - welcome newbies! We'll keep making with the content! Let us know what you'd like to see on this page!
BuildDirect Go on, guess. Where do you think the greenest place in the United States is? It might not be where you think it is. Here are some of the reasons why green living, and green building, may be more exemplified in some of the biggest cities rather than in bucolic rural areas. Take a read!
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When we think 'green', maybe we have certain associations that float around our minds. Maybe we think of a solitary hemp-clothed peacenik living on a grassy rolling plain, at one with nature, and uncluttered by the accouterments of the city. ...
BuildDirect In this blog post, BuildDirect Co-Founder Rob Banks talks about how direct print bamboo flooring can deliver all kinds of benefits; look, practicality, and green. But, what it also delivers is accessiblity. Due to an increasingly difficult process in getting legally-harvested exotics into North America, direct print bamboo delivers the look of exotic species without feeding illegal harvesting. Take a read.
Direct Print Bamboo Floors a Key Product in Lacey Act Compliance | Building Materials With Co-Founde
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I normally avoid doing product announcements on my blog. But direct print bamboo floors are different. As bamboo is recognized as a rapidly renewable resource and a low emitting material it is a fabulous option for your flooring. ...
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BuildDirect Congratualations to our Floor Kit Contest Winner Paul McEwan! And thanks to everyone who joined us here on our Facebook page this month. We hope to continue to send you links to information you find useful about building materials, the building industry, and about green building too. Thanks everyone!
BuildDirect Why don't we outsource our customer service around here at BuildDirect. Well, says President & CEO Jeff Booth, it's because we're really good at it. Who would do it better than we do? Take a read of Jeff's blog post about customer service as core competence.
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Yesterday I was asked a question that I am often asked and I thought it deserved a blog post. The question I was asked is Where is your call center? I
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BuildDirect has raised a team of moustachioed heroes for this year's Movember to raise funds for Prostate Cancer Research.
Join us on Thursday November 26 at the St. Regis Bar and Grill from 6:00PM. $20 gets you a beer, a burger, fries, and a donation to a worthy charity.
Door prizes and a silent auction will be in effect.
See you there!
Time:6:00PM Thursday, November 26th
Location:St. Regis Bar and Grill, 608 Dunsmuir Avenue, Vancouver BC
BuildDirect We're very proud of business development manager Marc McPherson and his brief Hallowe'en stint as a beloved corporate character for an international fast food conglomerate
BuildDirect We've recently shown you a number of videos about wood floor moldings. Just to tie things up, here is something of an overview of all of the moldings we've shown you. Take a read of this blog post and watch the attached video.
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Recently, we featured a miniseries about wood floor moldings, published every Friday for the last few weeks. Just by way of a recap, here's BuildDirect Co-Founder Rob Banks talking about each molding we covered. Take a look!
BuildDirect Take a look at this blog post from President and CEO of BuildDirect Jeff Booth, talking about the best way to weather a storm as a successful company - by realizing that the storm has nothing to do with the outcome of a company that is truly great. Take a read!
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Atthe Gazellesgrowth conferencelast week, I had the opportunity to see Jim Collins speak. One of the things I liked most about his speech, is the depth of
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Today's blog post is a contribution from one of our peers in the flooring industry, and luckily for us, a fan of this page of ours. Shannon Bilby talks about a recent trend in flooring and renovation - creating a more comfortable living space in an economy that creates a need to spend more time there instead of going ...out. Take a read, and feel free to comment on this, either here on Facebook, on the post itself found on our blog, or both! Enjoy!Read More
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With today's economy and thoughts on the future, people are spending more and more time in their homes. With the uncertainty of the future of the economy, people are also staying in their current homes more often rather than moving to new homes. ...
Rod Hicks BuildDirect is a company that is utilizing technology to connect end consumers directly with manufacturers. This is the leading edge of the future for all manufacturers and their consumers. Welcome to the future.
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These days, consumers of building materials are not only thinking about look and performance when it comes to flooring, tile, and other products. They're factoring in sustainability too. In an era where there is a lot of finger-waggling at the buying habits of consumers, more and more of them are turning to green bui...lding materials like strand-woven bamboo, cork floors, engineered wood flooring, post-industrial tile, and more not just because they're green, but because they look great for a long time. Take a look at this blog post to read about how buying green is no longer thought of as settling for second best.Read More
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About a year and a half ago, we launched our green building guide and green flooring guide. The reason for these pages was to get information out thereabout our specific products, and also about the very idea of green building materials as options for ethical renovations. ...
