Business Practices

4 05, 2020

Montgomery County’s Department of Permitting Services to Celebrate May as ‘Building Safety Month’ with Series of Events Including Free Residential Deck Inspections

By |2021-08-30T08:34:16-05:00May 4th, 2020|Categories: Ask NADRA, Business Practices, Deck Safety, Industry Brief, Industry News, Press Release|Tags: , , , |

Montgomery County’s Department of Permitting Services (DPS) will join in the celebration of the 40th Annual “Building Safety Month” with a series of activities including free inspections of residential decks. The theme of this year’s worldwide safety campaign is “Safer Buildings, Safer Communities, Safer World.” The theme highlights the importance of [...]

8 04, 2020

A Simple Recipe for Contractors Part Three:

By |2021-08-30T08:34:17-05:00April 8th, 2020|Categories: Ask NADRA, Bobby Parks, Business Practices|Tags: , , |

Leveraging Your Photos, By: Bobby Parks Photos are your visual resume that illustrates your capabilities as a builder and shows your style and creativity through a recorded image history. You’re often being accepted or rejected before you even know you’re being checked out when your website is visited as potential customers [...]

11 03, 2020

A Simple Recipe For Contractors Part Two:

By |2021-08-30T08:34:17-05:00March 11th, 2020|Categories: Ask NADRA, Bobby Parks, Business Practices|Tags: , , |

Referrals, Websites, and Social Media, By: Bobby Parks In part one  of “A Recipe For Contractors” I shared views on the importance of a contractor’s building philosophy, choice of project deliveries, and messaging.  In this second segment, I’ll share my thoughts on additional ingredients with referrals, websites, and social media. It’s a combination [...]

26 02, 2020

Question & Answer with NADRA.org

By |2021-08-30T08:34:18-05:00February 26th, 2020|Categories: Ask NADRA, Building Codes, Business Practices, Industry Brief, Industry News|Tags: , , , , , , |

An on-going series of inquiries from consumers & industry professionals sent to Info@NADRA.org. Question #1: "I am planning a deck on the back of my home. I am wondering if I am missing something. I want to use 6x6 post and notch them for my beam and rim joist as one, then just carry [...]

12 02, 2020

Home Show Season is Here. Are You Ready?

By |2021-08-30T08:34:18-05:00February 12th, 2020|Categories: Ask NADRA, Business Practices, Industry Brief, Industry News|Tags: , , , |

Tips from NADRA.org March is right around the corner, and that means we’re entering “Home Show Season”. It’s the end of the winter, the early customers are calling and inquiring. Now is our last chance to button-up any policies, procedures, and give our companies one last “spring cleaning” before the rush! [...]

15 01, 2020

If Customers Were Always Right, We Would Go Broke

By |2021-08-30T08:34:18-05:00January 15th, 2020|Categories: Ask NADRA, Bobby Parks, Business Practices|Tags: , , , , |

By: Bobby Parks  “The customer’s always right”. It’s a common saying that some may believe, but fortunately it’s not true or we would all go broke. We would throw in the towel whenever a customer claimed something was wrong, make fixes that had nothing to do with us for free, or [...]

3 07, 2019

NADRA Code Update

By |2021-08-30T08:34:40-05:00July 3rd, 2019|Categories: Ask NADRA, Building Codes, Business Practices, Deck Safety, Industry Brief, Industry News|Tags: , , , , , , |

July 3rd, 2019 By: Glenn Mathewson To finish a marathon, you’ve got to push through the last mile.  Such is the same with developing a new edition of the International Residential Code.  Thousands of people are currently running a marathon toward the 2021 IRC, and though they are halfway through, there’s [...]

24 01, 2018

Manufacturers share highlights from International Builders Show

By |2021-08-30T08:35:13-05:00January 24th, 2018|Categories: Business Practices, Industry Brief, Industry News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NADRA Vice President, Heath Bowman attended the International Builders Show alongside President, Matt Breyer & several NADRA Committee members and NADRA ambassadors. "It was great spending time with all of the NADRA members who participated in IBS.  Each booth we visited told stories and showed excitement about growth in sales, as [...]

18 01, 2018

Reminder to all Handrail and Guard Manufacturers

By |2021-08-30T08:35:16-05:00January 18th, 2018|Categories: Ask NADRA, Building Codes, Business Practices, Deck Safety, Industry Brief, Industry News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Reminder to all handrail and guard manufacturers, in June 2017 ICC-ES approved significant revisions to AC273, Acceptance Criteria for Handrails and Guards.  NADRA recommends if you have an evaluation or code report for your product in accordance with this acceptance criteria you should contact the agency providing the report on how [...]

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