100 Contractor Tips to Read Before You Remodel

Kenny Grono • November 24, 2025

Tips for buying materials, translating remodeler speak and what not to do in a remodel

Kenny wrote this series of articles for Houzz.com over ten years ago, but the lessons in the "100 Contractor Tips to Read Before You Remodel"

series are as true today as ever. Like In "What Your Contractor Really Means" #9: "We are going to need to do some value engineering": You've got caviar dreams on a cheese and cracker budget. Value engineering is when the team thinks creatively about how to rework the project to do the same or similar scope for less, like by changing material selections.


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