DES PLAINES, ILL. — The top products featured in CONTRACTOR’s monthly Products department in 2004 are featured this month in a special section on pages 20 and 21.

Readers determined the rankings of the products in both the Readers Choice and the Editors Choice categories by requesting more information on these products through our Reader Services department. The Readers Choice products were selected from all the products described in CONTRACTOR’s Products section in 2004. The Editors Choice products reflect the popularity ranking of the products highlighted in our monthly Editors Choice box from January through October.

No product can be listed in both the Readers Choice and Editors Choice categories. The top Readers Choice product is the Stak-N-Totes storage system from Klenk Tools featured in our March issue. The top Editors Choice product is the Pronto! tankless water heater from Rheem, also in the March issue. Rheem’s Pronto! generated the most reader interest of any product in both categories in 2004.