'No Excuses'

Capital Improvements delivers artful efficiency.

Russell Polk isn't a traffic cop, but the project manager for Dallas-based Capital Improvements feels like one at times.

Like when scores of delivery trucks and 50 subcontractors from 14 trades are swarming around one home, racing a drop-dead 90-day clock on a $710,000 mission to transform every wall, ceiling and floor in the place.

Now that is traffic ripe for big accidents and short fuses. So Polk directed like a state trooper on a four-lane highway.

And 14 specialty finishes, $150,000 in changes, and one seven-foot fish tank later, the clock struck 87 days and the homeowners moved in-early.

Nor did the rush affect quality. The project's ...

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