Vlog

Sid Woryn, Master Instructor at Michigan Builders License, has some advice for Michigan Builders regarding keeping logbooks and taking photos. He wants to help builders succeed. Learn how his advice could help you from liabilities. He will discuss keeping a log book and taking photos, which may or may not be minor...

Sid Warren, with Michigan Builders License, is back to share his insights on estimating job costs. One of the things he wants to draw to your attention right now is estimating your job costs on a particular job. Let's take a simple 24 by 24 garage. Just the slab and the rough framing. If you were to build that...

Master Instructor Sid Woryn wants to share something with you that's been coming up lately and more and more as time goes by. The building code on page six of your residential building code R 106.1.2 says that you have to have the manufacturer's installation instructions on the job site at the time of inspection, and...

Sid Woryn, Master Trainer with Michigan Builders License and Continuing Competency, is back to talk about Liability.   Everyone wants to reduce Liability. But how? By having the proper insurance. Look at insurance from another viewpoint. He likes to look at insurance as sleep insurance. If he has proper insurance,...

Master Instructor for Michigan Builders License, Sid Woryn, knows you're pretty much up on contracts but just wants to bring something to your attention that may help to reduce future liability. Remember this: whatever is in the contract is the legal scope of the work. If it's not in the contract, then you don't do...

Sid Woryn, with Michigan Builders license training, is here to share his thoughts on hiring. We all know that hiring can create some issues and some problems. We know there's a demand for good laborers, but how do we know they're good? First, I would always require a resume. An applicant for a job should have...

This is Sid for Michigan Builders—one of the things I want to touch on is the value of a competent person. Besides monitoring Miosha's requirements and safety requirements on the job site, I would hope that your competent person is there. When subs are working, your competent person should be the eyes and ears of...

Our lead instructor, Sid Woryn, is here sharing some important information about being a Michigan Builder. Today is MIOSHA Rules Part #1, where he talks about a Competent Person on job sites. Most of you know about MIOSHA's requirement for a competent person that's in the MIOSHA general rule. It's one of the very...

3 Steps to Winning Jobs Over Your Competitors We asked our Lead Instructor Sid what it takes to win a job over competitors and here’s what he had to say. The most important thing is to be professional. As a contractor, our industry is known for being unprofessional, not answering the phone, not getting back to...

We asked our instructor Jason (a former MIOSHA Inspector) this question and here was his response:  One of the questions that I commonly get as a former MIOSHA construction safety consultant is, "What can I as a builder do to prepare for a MIOSHA inspection?" Over the course of the next few minutes, we're going to...

We asked our lead instructor Sid this question and here was his response: How do you not let change orders eat away at your profit? Well, there should be ... If there were the 10 commandments of what to do to run a business that would probably be in the top 3, change orders. The very first thing you can do by not...

We asked our lead instructor Sid this question and here was his response: When we're hiring an employee again, you know there's companies or sources we can go to that we're looking for. Ideally, I hate to admit this, ideally what I prefer to do is steal a good employee from another company and offer more money. One...

How To Beat MIOSHA Without Having To Pay A Fine? We asked our lead instructor Sid this question and here was his response: That is an interesting question because we have to sometimes consider the source of who's asking that. That's like asking, "After I get stopped for speeding, how can I beat a speeding ticket?"...

We asked our lead instructor Sid this question and here was his response: STEP 1 – Ask them in Let's start from scratch. You need to hire, let's use, for example, you need to hire a framing crew. You've been informed that ABC Framing is a good crew. Okay? So we call them in and ask them, we'd like to interview...

We asked our lead instructor Sid this question and here was his response: Sid, what is the best way to resolve construction disputes? All right. We first have to make sure it's an actual construction dispute. A lot of times it may not really be related to construction. It may be an entirely emotional situation...