From high-heeled shoes to dog paws and kitchen spills, your home’s flooring faces tough challenges every day. New PERGO XP, from the inventor and most preferred brand of laminate flooring, is specially developed to better withstand the heavy traffic, spills and splashes that everyday life dishes out. “PERGO XP quite simply takes residential laminate flooring [...]
James Hardie Building Products Inc. (JHX: US) a leading manufacturer of exterior siding, panel and trim, receives third-party validation that siding a home with fiber cement products garners a higher return on investment than any other home improvement, including re-siding with vinyl siding. Remodeling magazine’s “Cost vs. Value” report compares the financial investment of a [...]
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Since September 11, The Home Depot®, The Home Depot Foundation and Team Depot, the Company’s associate-led volunteer force, have been on a nationwide campaign to celebrate the service and sacrifice of U.S. military veterans and their families. The “Celebration of Service” initiative officially concludes on Veterans Day, November 11 with volunteers completing 320 projects to [...]
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ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is teaming up with the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) to present a one-hour special: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition “Rise and Honor” A Veterans Day Special. Airing on Veterans Day (11/11/11), host Ty Pennington will take us back to some of the most heartwarming military stories featured over the years. The [...]
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IBM today announced its software is being used to correlate data from sensors capturing patient activity and replicate that in a virtual world with avatars that represent the elderly subjects in a unique pilot aimed at providing health researchers and students with insights on how to care for Canada’s aging population. Since June, 2011, University [...]
This Old House magazine honored Pella 350 Series vinyl windows in its “Top 100″ list of the best new home products of 2011. “If you have single-pane vinyl windows — and we sincerely hope you don’t — this triple-pane draft beater is up to 83 percent more energy efficient. We can almost hear your HVAC [...]
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Rebuilding Together, the nation’s leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, announced the hire of Gary Deverman as Chief Development Officer. Deverman comes to Rebuilding Together from the nonprofit, Building Healthier America, as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, Deverman was Executive Vice President of Shaping America’s Health at the American Diabetes Association. Deverman brings extensive local, [...]
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA, SPWRB) today announced it is offering its high efficiency solar power systems to Orchard Supply Hardware customers via information displays at Orchard Supply Hardware’s California stores and at www.OSH.com. The displays and online information describe the features of SunPower residential solar technology, the process for installing a home solar power system, and information on [...]
Founded on Nov. 11, 1911, Whirlpool Corporation is celebrating 100 years of changing and improving your home. To officially mark a century of innovation, Whirlpool brand, the corporation’s flagship brand, is partnering with Good Housekeeping to host a 100-hour touring birthday party in the New York area. From Nov. 2 through Nov. 11 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., consumers are invited to celebrate [...]
The Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge announced today the launch of its new interactive website and mobile functionality, developed in partnership with the software companies Snugg Home and Mobile Genius. Online home energy diagnostic tools, personalized homeowner pages, and other features allow Connecticut residents to determine how to make their drafty homes into snug homes, increasing comfort, [...]