Using ARBORCOAT to Refresh Your Space
With the summer heating up, now is the time to look at refreshing your outdoor space with a fresh coat of stain. No matter the temperatures that mother nature in [...]
Barry Tucker: Yard Manager, Home Builder, and Kettle Corn Extraordinaire.
Meet Barry Tucker, yard manager at Cardinal Home Center in Madison for almost two years. Before Cardinal, Barry worked from home for ten years and was tired of the isolation. [...]
Using the Festool Dust Extraction System
Festool is one of the top brands in the industry, specializing in providing cutting-edge jigsaws, circular saws, miter saws, sanders, and routers for carpenters and professionals. This product is an [...]
Homeowner’s Guide to Engineered Lumber
When building a home, it is critical to make sure that you have the proper structural pieces together for your foundation. From headers in ceilings to load-bearing beams and more, [...]
Start Out Right, and Start Out Straight, with Weyerhaeuser Framer Series Lumber
Every good building project starts with quality lumber. Quality lumber eliminates wasted time on callbacks. It maintains stability, defined by the American Lumber Standards to be within the #1 grade [...]
Keep Your Eye On the Ball, Shawn Harris
Shawn Harris is the Assistant Manager at Cardinal Home Center Greenbrier Drive location and has worked for Cardinal for over ten years. When we asked Shawn what he learned [...]
The Gritty Guide to Sandpaper
Almost everybody knows what sandpaper is. That gritty piece of paper or block comes in all sizes. It is used to remove defects and create a smooth surface. But [...]
A Guide to Staining Pressure-Treated Lumber with Benjamin Moore’s ARBORCOAT
Benjamin Moore’s ARBORCOAT® stain is a leading brand on the market for wood stains, specifically designed to protect wood no matter the weather conditions. ARBORCOAT has many benefits, including better [...]
Top 5 Projects for Dad
Save the date! Father’s Day is coming up on June 19 -- a day to celebrate all that Dad brings to our lives, and what better way to celebrate than [...]
Brand Spotlight: INSL-X® Primers by Benjamin Moore
From multi-purpose water and solvent-based primers to superior stain suppressing primers, INSL-X® interior and exterior primers by Benjamin Moore are specialty primers known for quality. Aqua Lock® Plus Primer/Sealer Aqua Lock® [...]