Jim Benoit

Jim Benoit's Posts

• Local Forecast

  Tough Times in the Philadelphia Suburbs

  by Nina Patel

  For Benoit & Czarnecki, a combination of the slow economy, smaller job size, and new regulations are making doing business more challenging.

• Pennsylvania Home Improvement Contractor Law Now in Effect

  by Lauren Hunter

  Contractors must register with the state under new Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act.

• Should you share information with your competition?

  by Remodeling Staff

  Remodeling is not just a business for me; I am passionate about it. When placed in a group setting and given a topic that interests me, I can expand on it with perhaps too much detail. I will relate the strategies and measures that my company has taken to solve a problem or to get a leg up on the competition. People have shared good advice with me over the years, and I in turn would like to help others.

• Bottom Line

  Cost of Supervision

  by Nina Patel

  Jim Benoit uses an estimating discipline from his commercial contracting experience to enhance his company's residential remodeling estimates. Instead of including project supervision in overhead, he includes it as a line item in all the estimates produced by Benoit & Czarnecki Design/Construction, Newtown Square, Pa.

• Letting the axe fall

  by Leah Thayer

  Jim Benoit now says that “No good deed goes unpunished.” Sure enough, when he decided early this year to grant a second chance to a lead carpenter who had been falsifying his time sheets, not only was the carpenter AWOL the next day, but so were several items that belonged to the company, including tools, a cell phone, paperwork, and a credit card.