Protect your flooring from unwanted damage If you are carrying out construction work on a residential home, one of your biggest priorities will be to protect the existing fixtures and fittings and that means the flooring.You might even be construction a house from scratch or completely renovating a room, and have laid the floor before the ...
Category Archives: Building and Remodeling
The simple guide to making a planning application
Get the planning application right the first time Planning permission is the bane of construction. When you want to build something new; make a major change to a building; or even change the use of a building, you’ll have to submit an application and wait for approval before you can start. While it can take a ...
7 quick and easy tips to increase the value of your home
You don’t always have to renovate or remodel your home to fetch a decent price. In fact, there’s plenty you can do yourself with just a few free days and a couple hundred pounds. Here are 7 quick and easy ways to add value to your home if you’re planning on selling. Have a de-clutter weekend Too ...
Six Awesome Interior Accessories
Create a unique talking point in your house Making unique changes to your home can give it a personal touch as well as being an excellent talking point when you have visitors over. Whilst most of us won't have the space or budget to make ground-breaking design changes, some people have taken the plunge with spectacular ...
Building Compost Bins
Building your own compost bin is easy, convenient, and inexpensive. Compost bin will help to make compost cleaner and faster than most compost piles. You can make one or more compost bin as you need and have your own compost apartment in case of no backyard. It also helps the environment by recycling unused stuffs ...
Patching a Concrete Block
Waterproofing my Shower Window
It is normal for tiled showers to have windows and at the same time, it is also important to know that these windows can experience water damage. Improper waterproofed windows could cause water damage towards the windows. Although you can use silicon to fix the problem, it may not enough for a longer period. Here ...
Brazing an Aluminum Tubing
Spraying Texture With a Hopper Gun
Replacing a Heat Detector
Having a heat detector in your house especially in the kitchen area is good because the heat detector is a device just like a fire alarm device, which is designed to respond when the convected thermal energy of a fire increases the temperature of a heat sensitive element whereby its thermal mass and conductivity of ...
Installing a GFCI Electrical Outlet
A GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) electrical outlet is an outlet design with its own built-in circuit breaker so that it would be able to protect people from deadly electric shock, plus also your house wiring and breaker panel from having short circuit. Besides that, the GFCI outlets also reduce the risk of house fires ...
Getting Cigarette Burns Out of a Wood Table Top
When we buy furniture for our home, we do it with love and more importantly spend wisely. Furniture is not known to be cheap and moreover, the quality isn't cheap either. Depending on the price, the furniture comes in different price slots.We all know that furniture made from pure wood is the most expensive one. ...
Filling a Crack in an Asphalt Driveway
Installing an Electrical Breaker Switch in a Breaker Box
Electric components are tricky to install. Many of us don't know much of how electric functions. The ones who know are lucky and know their way around.Whenever you open up the front cover of your breaker box, you will be able to see a small black switch known as breakers. Breakers are used for replacing ...
Removing a Fluorescent Tube
Almost every household in the world uses fluorescent lights because it provides a lot of light especially during the night and uses less electricity. The fluorescent lights is also like any other bulb, which needs to be replaced after a long time of usage and if the bulb is burned-out. The fluorescent bulbs work once ...