Combs Concrete Construction Company (combsconcrete.com) has a long and impressive legacy. The company was started back in 1955. Founder Ray Combs completed his years in the United States Army and began to provide premium concrete service to customers throughout Greater Dayton/Miamisburg, Ohio. In the 1970s, Ray decided to move his family to an area of […]
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Where Bridges to Community Volunteers Serve
Bridges to Community (bridgestocommunity.org) is a poverty alleviation-focused nonprofit organization. Our motto, “building communities, changing lives,” encapsulates both the how and why of what we do. Our volunteers work with community leaders in impoverished regions of Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic to accomplish these important goals. In this article, we will focus on the criteria […]
Why Home Builders Should Consider Teak, Part 2
If you’ve read our first post on this topic, you understand why there’s currently an abundance of Teak ready and waiting for home builders and those in other industries — despite a shortage for boat builders. Not only is this situation favorable to you as a home builder, but it also poses an exciting potential […]
Why Home Builders Should Consider Teak, Part 1
Between constantly changing export regulations and logging bans on Myanmar, the Teak market is constantly in flux. As one of the most significant importers of Teak in the U.S., J. Gibson McIlvain Lumber keeps a constant watch on these issues and tries to keep as much of an inventory of Teak on hand as possible; […]
How Shipping Costs & Order Size Affect Lumber Pricing
Lumber pricing gets a bad rap, and we understand why. No, really, we do. Not one of us likes to feel as if we’re paying more than we should be, and when pricing isn’t published or straightforward, it’s easy to feel skeptical. Well, no matter how much we wish we could, we cannot provide a […]
How Governmental Regulations & Lumber’s Origin Affect Lumber Pricing
We realize that lumber pricing can often seem like a conundrum, requiring some kind of mystery password to unlock its riddles. While the many factors that influence lumber pricing are far from simple or static, they are comprehensible to the average customer. They’re also complex and nuanced, though, and explaining that to each individual customer […]
How Seasonal Demand Affects Lumber Pricing
What comes to your mind when you think of lumber pricing? Is it confusion or maybe even frustration? Well, we’d like to help create a little more understanding through some education. We started in “What Factors Determine the Price of Lumber?” and continued in “How the Size of Boards Affects Lumber Pricing.” But there’s still […]
How the Size of Boards Affects Lumber Pricing
Lumber pricing can seem like quite the enigma. To some extent, it is impossible for us to communicate to customers the many factors that contribute to it, but in an effort to unveil the mystery and foster open communication between lumber suppliers and customers, we’re making an attempt. In “What Factors Determine the Price of […]
What Factors Determine the Price of Lumber?
It may be an understandable question, but it’s also a complicated one: What will my lumber cost? From the customer’s side, it seems simple, reasonable, straightforward. But from the lumber supplier’s standpoint, it’s actually pretty complex, requiring both analysis of the specific aspects of the order as well as synthesis of a variety of factors. […]
Choosing a Licensed Arborist – Quality Tree Service
We might take them for granted most of the time, but the trees around our homes and neighborhoods are an integral feature of the landscape. Usually, trees don’t require much special attention or treatment to look healthy and live a long life. But sometimes a tree will fall victim to a disease or insect infestation […]
