Raleigh Durham Remodel Auction

Replacing your home’s original windows has the single greatest impact on reducing your carbon blue print.  The average American home produces more pollution, every year, then a S.U.V. traveling over 100,000 miles!  Most people realize that home heating creates pollution, and uses quite a bit of energy.  What most people do not realize, however, is [...]

Conserve Energy Dollars With Great Lakes Seabrooke Windows. Energy costs are way up, across the board. Between oil, and rising natural gas prices, homeowners are looking for economical ways so conserve their hard earned energy dollars. What a lot of homeowners do not know is that the right replacement windows can go [...]

A lot of people want to know what Masonite or hardboard siding really is. The short answer is garbage……..Here is the long answer. Masonite is the name brand of a wood based siding that begin its tragic tale in the 1970′2. Georgia Pacific paper company produced a very good version of it [...]

With the mild weather we have been enjoying, many customers are thinking about how nice a new porch or patio would be. When building a new screened in porch, or deck, there are a couple of things to remember. Number one is that the project should definitely be permitted, and inspected. This [...]

Congratulations to our big winner, Deborah from Wake Forest. Deborah entered into our “Guess the Cash in the Sash” contest at this year’s Southern Ideals Home Show. Her guess was $390.00 and the Actual count was $391.00 The Cash was stuffed into the upper sash of a Great Lakes Bayshore Window, which [...]

     Americans spend around $160 billion a year to heat, cool, and live in their homes, and this energy bill continues to grow.  Our homes use around 21% of the energy we use as a nation each year and consume a substantial amount of electricity and natural gas.  Considerable opportunity still remains for better home [...]

      While remodeling your kitchen is not only satisfying to your own enjoyment, it also has a high return on investment.  The kitchen is arguably one of the most used rooms in your home, so it is important to keep it up to date.  For most people, your home is your greatest asset, so it [...]

Research firm DYG recently conducted an online survey of 2000 homeowners 50 to 60 years old. The survey found that 82% surveyed want low maintenance homes, and 84% want their home to be energy efficient. Crane offers a variety of vinyl siding designs and style, however, Craneboard is the way to go. [...]

Remodel Auction inc is happy to launch a new “Ask the Experts” column to assist home owners with questions about their projects. The Raleigh Division of RMA will be taking your questions via posts through this site. Your questions will be posed to our two lead carpenters, both of whom have over 30 [...]

A lot of consumers are hearing the new buzz word “U factor” and asking themselves what does U factor mean? What about R values? Doesn’t R value refer to energy values? Let me clarify things with the following definition. Both U-factor and R-value are measures of a material’s insulating performance. The former [...]