Thomas Jepsen is a Danish economist with a MSc in Accounting, Strategy and Control from Copenhagen Business School. He is the founder and CEO of Contractor Quotes, a growing platform that helps connect homeowners with contractors as well as providing them with all the home improvement related information relevant for their project.
Since 2011, Thomas has been involved in the home improvement industry through different functions including consulting them on their business strategy, and he reviews a lot of the articles featured on the platform to ensure accuracy.
He has been featured on a range of different websites including USA Weekly, Media Leaders, CEO Blog Nation, Fit Small Business, Website Magazine and more for his contributions to online platforms.
Having been involved in home improvement for so long, his main goal is to inspire better transparency in the home improvement space by making a range of different things more accessible to the homeowner to better ensure that they get the home that they want, while staying within budget and improving the amount of money homeowners can hope to recoup as a consequence of their efforts.
He can also be found on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Dishwasher and Microwave Safety for Ceramics – “Do’s and Don’ts”
These days we have a lot of new gadgets to help out in our daily lives. Two of these — the dishwasher and the microwave — have the potential to damage our ceramic tableware and other ceramic items. Follwing a few simple rules will help to avert disaster. Let’s start with dishwashers. Dishwashers and Ceramics... Read More
The Bauhaus Pottery – Short-lived, but influential
In 1920 the Bauhaus took on master potter Max Krehan as a collaborator in setting up a pottery workshop. Krehan’s initial class consisted of 5 students, who worked at his pottery in Dornburg, 30 kilometers away from the main school in Weimar. The ceramics students were more self-sufficient that some of the other craft workshops, partly due to... Read More
The Teapot – A Ceramic Cultural Item
Tea is one of those cultural items, which has a strong connection to ceramics – thanks to the teapot and the teabowl. It is a very pervasive drink, not only in Eastern societies, but also in the West. The same thing can be said of tea utensils, such as the teapot, which is also a... Read More
Picolpasso and the Art of Majolica in 16th century Italy – Part One
Li Tre Libre Dell’Arte Del Vasaio, the three books of the potters art, was written in 1557, or very close to that year, by Cipriano Picolpasso. It is a remarkable document, and is interesting both as a guide to the methods and techniques of the production of Majolica pottery in renaissance Italy, and also for... Read More
A Virtual Ceramics Museums Tour
The presence of ceramics on the Net have been growing rapidly over the last year or two. This also applies to museums dedicated to showing ceramic art. I’d like to show you some of the better ceramic museums I have been able to find on the Web. American Ceramics at the Everson Museum is dedicated to... Read More
Measurement Overview
Here’s an overview of all the different pages related to measurements. Conversion table Temperature Two-way converter Gold density, electrical conductivity of gold Silver density, silver electrical conductivity Copper density, copper electrical conductivity Zinc heat capacity Velocity of sound in materials with barium Glass density Water density Aluminum density Steel density Ash wood density Douglas fir... Read More
Two-way Converter (sorted by Category)
To use this Converter type your value in a box and then click your mouse anywhere on the page (or press tab key). Category Non-metric Measures SI (meter-kilogram-second) CGS (centimeter-gram-second) Acceleration acceleration of free fall (g or grav) m/sec2 cm/sec2 Acceleration galileo (Gal or gal) m/sec2 cm/sec2 Angle degree angular (° or deg) radian(rad) radian(rad)... Read More
Gold [Au]
density = mass / volume Density (rho) 19300 kg/m3 Mass (m) kg g carat(ct or c) dram (avoirdupois) dram (dr) (apothecaries) dyne (dyn) grain (gr) gram (g) gram force or gram-weight hundredweight long (Cwt) (U.K.) hundredweight short (Cwt) (U.S.) kilogram (kg) milligram (mg) newton (N) ounce (oz) ounce apothecaries (oz) ounce troy (troz) pennyweight... Read More
Silver [Ag]
density = mass / volume Density (rho) 10490 kg/m3 Mass (m) kg g carat(ct or c) dram (avoirdupois) dram (dr) (apothecaries) dyne (dyn) grain (gr) gram (g) gram force or gram-weight hundredweight long (Cwt) (U.K.) hundredweight short (Cwt) (U.S.) kilogram (kg) milligram (mg) newton (N) ounce (oz) ounce apothecaries (oz) ounce troy (troz) pennyweight... Read More
Copper [Cu]
electrical conductivity = longitudinal length / ( electrical resistance * cross-sectional area ) Electrical Conductivity (sigma) 59610000 /ohm.m Area (A) m2 cm2 acre (ac or A) area(a) hectare (ha) square centimeter (cm2) square foot (f2) square inch (in2) square kilometer (km2) square mile (mi2 or sq mi) square millimeter (mm2) square yard (y2) Longitudinal... Read More
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