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Contractors: Don't Be an Underperformer

After a falling out with a general contractor, a client sought out A Cut Above to “do its magic” to fix some cabinets surgically altered to accommodate new appliances. But what happened to that contractor?

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Housing Starts Slip with Multifamily Correction in April

A correction from an unsustainably high level of production on the volatile multifamily side was largely responsible for a 16.5 percent dip in nationwide housing starts to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 853,000 units in April, according to newly released figures from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Kingfisher Meets Challenges of Using Mixed Media Fuel

It’s a surprising figure, however cement production is reckoned to emit 5 to 6 percent of total man made greenhouse gases, Some of the greenhouse emissions from conventional cement production come from using fossil fuels to heat up limestone to the high 1500degC, temperatures required by the process, so it is unsurprising that alternative fuelling methods are now being thoroughly exploited. The use of alternative fuels in European cement kilns is now estimated to be equivalent to 2.5 million tonnes of coal per year.