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The $500 Customer vs. the $5,000 Customer

A bigger invoice doesn’t always mean a more profitable contracting job. Learn how to account for estimating, travel, communication, labor, and other hidden costs. Then identify the customers and projects that deliver the best profitability for your business.

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How 218 Painting & Log Restoration Built a Reputation for Quality in Minnesota

See how 218 Painting & Log Restoration earned a reputation for quality through media blasting, staining, chinking, and log replacement in Minnesota.

Log cabin-style house with a stone chimney, green roof, and front deck overlooking a grassy yard at dusk.
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The Pros That Always Show Up: Restoring the Villari Log Home

Pro Property Services, based out of Waynesville, NC restored the Villari log home with Sashco log home products, and using what they learned in Sashco’s Zero Failures Seminar.

Pro Property Services Villari Log Home Restoration
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A Log Cabin Built by Hand, Restored for a New Generation

A hand-built North Idaho log cabin restoration project used Sashco log home products and hired log home experts, God’s Country Contracting, to restore the log home.

North Idaho Log Home Restoration After
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BTi Log Home Care: Unlocking the Secrets to Log Home Beauty and Durability.

If you hang around the log and timber frame restoration world long enough, you start to notice a pattern. The most successful contractors aren’t the…

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Building a Better Log Home Business: Lessons Log Masters Restorations

Running a log-home restoration business? See how Log Masters Restorations built a standardized playbook from the field up—covering SOPs, crew onboarding, trouble-ticket prevention and growth strategy.

SOP Example for Log Home Restoration Business
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A Log Home Story That Earned Its Happy Ending.

A log home rooted in history, love, and craftsmanship, carefully restored and finished to stand the test of time.

Choosing a Stain

How The Flex Tint® Stain System Was Born

Sashco Innovation in the Making The Problem Every great story starts by setting a scene, right? Who are we to…

Flextint is made for contractors
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Make More Money with Smart Building Materials Choices

Maximize profit margins with smart material choices. Learn how quality products cut callbacks, speed up jobs, and protect your contracting business.

Sashco Quality Building Materials
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Grow Your Business with a Proven Maintenance Reminder System

The best log finishing contractors build long-term relationships, not just one-time jobs. And that starts with helping your customers stay ahead of log home maintenance before their place looks like it’s been through the wringer.

Here’s how to build a no-BS log home maintenance reminder system that keeps your calendar full, your customers happy, and their homes protected.

Grow Your Business with a Proven Maintenance Reminder System