Keeping your house warm while staying inside your budget isn’t always easy. As the cost of energy goes up with the impending recovery in the oil sector, commercial and residential power sources will follow suit, as they traditionally have in the past.  One way to keep your energy costs under control is to make sure your home is well equipped ...

Spray polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation is rapidly growing as the insulation of choice throughout North America.  But how much do you know about this amazing product, and all of the benefits?  There are so many features and benefits of SPF, and some of them are surprising! If you’ve had trouble with ice dams as the weather gets colder, SPF can prevent ...

As an industrial writer, I run across case studies and case histories for companies I work with all the time. Most of the time I take those with a grain of salt, figuring a company isn’t going to tout a case study when their product didn’t work. So I was intrigued when I was asked to write a story about ...

Owning a contracting business has its ups and downs.  And when the “downs” outnumber the “ups,” it can be a little frightening. Keeping your cash flow steady and your employees busy is what makes a business successful, but when economic conditions, weather, or simply a slowdown in new business all hit at the same time, it can present a challenge. ...

It seems that every week we’re reading about another round of layoffs in the oil and gas industry. According to Houston-based Graves & Co., over 350,000 industry workers had lost their jobs since mid-2014. Some chose to retire, some entered other fields, and some, with an entrepreneurial spirit and a wealth of knowledge and experience in oil and gas, chose ...