QC Home Show: It will be ‘out of this world’

Tables are being moved. Fireplace displays are being built. Living room and bedroom displays are taking shape. It’s almost showtime. The 2023 Quad Cities Builders & Remodelers Association Home Show is almost ready for the expected crowds. The QCBR show will be from Friday to Sunday, Feb. 17-19, at a new location – two buildings […]

Tables are being moved. Fireplace displays are being built. Living room and bedroom displays are taking shape. It’s almost showtime. The 2023 Quad Cities Builders & Remodelers Association Home Show is almost ready for the expected crowds. The QCBR show will be from Friday to Sunday, Feb. 17-19, at a new location – two buildings on the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds at 2815 W. Locust St., Davenport. For many years, the annual event was held at the QCCA Expo Center in Rock Island.

“Some of these displays are out of this world,” Mona Peiffer, executive officer of the Quad Cities Builders & Remodelers Association, said on Wednesday morning, Feb. 15, as she looked over displays being built for the show. The event is expected to attract at least 4,000 people this weekend, she added. Dozens of workers were busy Wednesday setting up the displays and tables for about 112 exhibitors in the Fair Center and Iowa Building at the fairgrounds. Those exhibitors feature many area businesses involved in the home and home care areas, such as roofing, fireplaces, landscaping, heating and air, and much more. “You’re going to see so many new people and businesses at this show that haven’t been at this show before,” Ms. Peiffer added.

In addition to showcasing many regional businesses, Ms. Peiffer said she is also proud the show will help many area students. On Wednesday, she showed some of the student-made benches on display in the Fair Center building that will be auctioned at the Home Show. The money raised at the auction will be used to help high school student trades programs. Seiffert Building Supplies, Davenport, donated the materials for the student projects. Proceeds from the sale of the benches will be divided between the school that crafted each individual bench, and the other half will go to the Student Trades Scholarship Fund. This year marks a new chapter for the Home Show. After taking a hiatus due to COVID-19, show organizers said they wanted a change. So after many years of the show calling the QCCA Expo Center “home,” the event chose to relocate to the fairgrounds. “It’s nothing against Illinois or the Expo Center, but this is the year we wanted to try something different,” Ms. Peiffer told the QCBJ in an earlier interview. “ …  A lot of our members were saying ‘Let’s switch it up and try something different this year.’”  Here are some of the details to this year’s Home Show:

• Hours will be noon to 8 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday. Admission is $10 for adults; and free admission for children age 12 and younger.
• Friday, Feb. 17, will be Senior Discount Day with $2 off admission fees.
• This will be a cash-only show for admission fees. ATM machines will be available in the buildings.
• There will be prize giveaways daily as well as prizes for the first 600 children at the show.
• There will be plenty of parking space.
• Home Show booklets will be available at the show, and at many Quad Cities area Hy-Vee stores.

The QCBR show’s presenting sponsors are Electric Doctor and Fanth-Curry Home Improvement Co. Other sponsors include CBI Bank & Trust and Eldridge Lumberyard. The companies expected to participate in the QCBR show include: Acri Company, ADT Security, Advantage Tree Service, AE Outdoor Power, Affordable Metal Manufacturing, All Around Town Outdoor Services, Apex Metal Production, Backyard Vinyl, BankOrion, Barron Equipment, Bath Fitter, Bath Planet, Best Improvement, Bettendorf Home Repair, Better Business Bureau, Betterliving Patio & Sunrooms of the Quad Cities, Blackhawk Bank & Trust, Border Magic and Boulder, Designs Budget Blinds, CBI Bank & Trust, Coach House Garages, Concrete PolyFix, Corn Crib Nursery, Courts Fore Sports, Critchett’s Lowrey Legacy, CSI Homes, Culligan of the Quad Cities, Curb Appeal, Custom Order Home Organizing, Dittmer Tree Service, DJR Maintenance & Remodel, Drafting Solutions, Inc., Dog Guard Midwest, Eagle Point Solar, Eldridge Lumberyard,  Electric Doctor, Encore Concrete Coatings, Epic Stone, Fanth-Curry Home Improvement Co., Flagpole Solutions, Flawless Finishing, Flicks Kitchen & Bath Flooring America,  Gainz Construction, Grand Appliance & TV, Great Plains Blind Factory, GreenState Credit Union, GreenTech Spray Foam Insulation, Green Valley Roofing Siding Windows, Gutter King Gutter Supply Inc., Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Helitech Waterproofing and Foundation Repair, Hello Garage of Eastern Iowa, Home Improvement Innovations, IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union, ILLOWA, Jackson Generator and Home Services, JB&D Siding & Window, JD Coussens Inc., Kelly Construction of Davenport, La-Z-Boy Home Furnishings, LeafFilter Gutter Protection, LiteForm, Lovewell Fence & Deck, Mainstream Home Improvement, M&E Sales – Outdoor Umbrellas, M&E Sales – VBX Machine, Mediacom, MetroNet, MidAmerica Basement Systems, Midwest Bath Co., Midwest Ductworks Eastern Iowa, Midwest Grilling Supplies, Midwest Precast, Midwest Solar Installers, Neal Erdman Construction, O’Dell’s Heating & Air, Perfect Choice Exteriors, Power Washing Services QC, QC Concrete Lifting, QCA Pools & Spas, Quad Cities Missing Persons Network, RAD Home Designs, Radon Solutions, Raynor Door Co. Inc. of QC, Re-Bath of Illinois, Renewal by Andersen, R.I.A. Federal Credit Union, River City Pella Windows and Doors, RiverStone Group, Seiffert Building Supplies, Shem’s Landscaping, SERVPRO of the Quad Cities, ShelfGenie of the Quad Cities, Shower Pros, Solar Grids Quad Cities, Steve’s Mirror & Glass, Taylor Improvements, The Green Thumbers, The Home Depot, The Superior Sleep Experience, Thurman & Son Yard Works, TSR Concrete Coatings, TVC Improvements, Twin Bridge Construction, Veterans Choice Contracting, Village Home Stores and Window Depot USA.