FairTradeWorks Blog

How “Smart” can your home actually be? Do you want a “Smart Home”? It sounds tempting yet also sounds expensive, doesn’t it?                         About 5 years ago I started a project in Vancouver where the owner wanted a complete smart home system that included his home theater and lighting s...

  As a kid I couldn't understand why I wasn't allowed to touch the pink fluffy cotton candy that I saw poking out of one of the basement walls. As I got older I realized that rubbing my face into tiny pieces of fiberglass isn't the brightness idea. This childhood memory got me wondering if there ...

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  In our business, we hear time and time again, “I knew that my roof needed to be repaired but it wasn’t until the rainy season that I thought about it.”     Heads up homeowners, if you need a roof repair or roof replacement, now is the time to get the job done. And while we are talking about the...

As our society becomes more and more environmentally conscience, we are taking certain steps to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in our landfills. According to Canadian surveys as much as one third of the 20 million tonnes of municipal waste comes from construction, renovation and demoliti...

  Written by FairTradeWorks Advisor Gary Kwong.   I have received a lot of phone calls over the past year of working with FairTradeWorks from potential clients just wanting to get a price for what they explain as “a simple reno.” The hard part of answering this kind of generic question as a const...

It’s about time we made this idea an actuality, Eco-Friendly paint. For decades we’ve been painting our homes with paint containing harmful toxins putting our loved ones in harm’s way.  According to the EPA, indoor air is three times more polluted than outdoor air. Traditional paints and finishes...