Download Construction Forms .com
This is who we are

<-- That's me, Diane! :)

How did Download Construction Forms start?

Well, we were contractors, C and D Acoustics, in California for about 7 years (hubby was in construction 20+ years prior) when we started our first website www.TheContractorsGroup.com.

We had been through some pretty tough scrapes and learned quite a bit:

• how and why to prelim jobs
• why suing the GC isn't always worth it
• why your supplier should also be your best friend
• why you should read your contracts letter for letter
• why it's a good idea to take pictures of your completed work
• how and why to write proposals in a manner to protect ourselves
• and so forth and so on...
• Here's an even more in-depth look at who we are. The page will look different when you click through but it is still me/us. If you read the page you'll see that there's a lot more information about us. =)

While we were experiencing just about every groan in construction, we were fortunate in that we made a lot of friends with fellow contractors. Mostly these were "small" guys like us, no more than a husband and wife with maybe one or two employees.

Because of the experiences we had been through we were able to answer quite a few questions that our contractor friends would ask. In addition, everyone wanted to know where they could download construction forms.

It got to the point where our contractor friends were referring us to their contractor friends and we found ourselves fielding anywhere from 1 to 10 calls a day, questions that other contractors had about experiences they were going through, and as always, where could they download construction forms?

Eventually we realized that there were lots and lots of contractors with lots and lots of questions but hardly any support or answers for those contractors and their questions. We also discovered that indeed there was no place online to download construction forms.

You go through school, take your test, get your license and then bye-bye baby, you're on your own. Even the state license board can't answer questions many times. Technically they're there to serve the consumer, not the contractor.

Lots of folks told us we ought to write a book about our many experiences so that others could learn from what we'd been through. We thought, why not a website instead of a book?

That's how we got started in websites. :) We now have a "family" of sites and Download Construction Forms is one of them:

www.TheContractorsGroup.com
Our first and premier website. We started this website in December 1999. We continued to operate our suspended ceiling company, C and D Acoustics, while I built the website "in the middle of the night, night after night". It contains tutorials on how to run a construction business; a free and very popular newsletter; introductions and exclusive discounts to various firms, software, etc. for contractors; and so on. We also sell our downloadable forms from this website utilizing PayPal to collect payment, which allows folks to download construction forms immediately upon completion of payment. Due to health issues we had to make the difficult decision to close the suspended ceiling side of C and D Acoustics in 2004, and focus instead on developing additional tools for the suspended ceiling industry and growing our family of contractor-friendly websites, anything we could do that would allow us to work from home (those darn health issues)...

www.Construction-Business-Forms.com
We started this website when we found that using PayPal didn't serve everyone who wanted to purchase and download construction forms. We needed to be able to accept credit cards. We don't have our own shopping cart system so we set up a store through Yahoo to sell the downloadable forms we were selling at TheContractorsGroup.com, but with the ability to accept credit cards instead of PayPal.

www.Download-Construction-Forms.com
Download Construction Forms is the site you're at right now. The reason I started this site is because I wanted to try out this cool new system called Site Build It. My husband started a website (see below) using Site Build It so I decided that I wanted to try it out. I'm finding that Site Build It is outstanding for anyone who wants to do a website but doesn't know how to write code and even for folks who don't necessarily know yet what they want to do online. I plan on including a page here dedicated to Site Build It but in the meantime, if you'd like to check it out please click any of these Site Build It links. ;)

www.ATV-411.com
My husband's site created with Site Build It

www.Explore-Whidbey-Island.com
We recently (Dec 2006) moved here to Whidbey Island, not so recent anymore I guess since it's been just over three years now, and we absolutely love it here. It's a beautiful place and a popular vacation spot. We're using this website to let folks know about the various places on the island, restaurants, stores, bed and breakfasts, beaches, etc. As like the other sites listed here, we're using Site Build It to build this site. :)

www.Aspergers-and-PDD.com
Our son was diagnosed about a year before we moved here to the island. This website is a chronicle of our experiences as well as information on various things related to Aspergers Syndrome and PDD-NOS. And of course, we're using Site Build It on this site as well. :)

Please feel free to contact us for any reason.

Have a great day! Diane Dennis