Mike Holmes Interview with Builder Magazine

While poking around my favorite Canadian coated lumber website, BluWoodCanada.com, I noticed a link to a video for an interview with Mike Holmes from 2011 conducted by Builder Magazine. I clicked on the link, and to my disappointment the link was dead. That's OK, I just headed over to BuilderOnline.com and found not only a link to the video, but also a short corresponding article. The video is from the 2011International Builder's Show in Orlando, Florida, and on it Mike discusses his commitment to building with quality and the environment in mind.

From BuilderOnline.com:

HGTV’s Mike Holmes Talks Construction Quality, Sustainability with BUILDER Magazine

By Nigel F. Maynard


The construction industry has been using building techniques that produce too many callbacks and as a result needs to rethink the way it builds houses, general contractor Mike Holmes, host of the HGTV series Holmes on Homes and Holmes Inspection, told Builder magazine at the 2011 International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla.

Holmes, a Canadian contractor who is perhaps the most respected and popular general contractor in America at the moment, said many of our houses are failing because of the minimum code. “If we don’t upgrade a few things within minimum code, it’s not logical; everything is barred low.”

 (If you can't view the video, click here)