| | Painting Exterior of your Home | | By: Priti Arora - On 4/14/2009 - 2931 View(s) - 2 Comment(s) | | For painting exteriors of your home, you should know proper guidelines on primer, paint quality, paint color, weather conditions as these are important factors for paint work to create elegance on exterior walls of the house. Here are given some tips for smooth and beautiful exterior wall painting. |
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| | Orientation of Building | | By: Subhash Tyagi - On 5/15/2009 - 3699 View(s) - 2 Comment(s) | | To get maximum ventilation and natural light in your house, make sure the building is properly oriented. Orientation of building saves energy and provides comfortable living as well. This article tells you about various factors and benefits of building orientation.
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| | How to Plan Outdoor Lighting | | By: Amit Hasija - On 3/4/2009 - 2102 View(s) - 1 Comment(s) | | Outdoor lighting is a nice way to add beauty and warmth to the house. It is very useful for security reasons of home exterior such as pathways, swimming pool etc. Keep in mind suitable exterior locations for implementation of outdoor lighting. |
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| | Outdoor Furniture | | By: Priti Arora - On 4/10/2009 - 1618 View(s) - Comment(s) | | Do you want to choose right outdoor furniture for your Patio, Backyard or Garden? Here are some ideas for outdoor furniture. |
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| | Building New Home V/S Buying Builder Flat | | By: Priti Arora - On 8/29/2009 - 249 View(s) - Comment(s) | | Buying a builder’s flat may be costlier for you rather than building a new home. But if you plan to make your own, you will have to devote your time on arranging raw materials and hiring contractor to ensure the quality of construction. This article gives details of the pros and cons of building a new home and builders’ flat.
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| | Guidelines for Ventilation in Building | | By: Priti Arora - On 2/12/2009 - 1307 View(s) - Comment(s) | | Proper ventilation in building ensures sound health and good living conditions. This write-up tells you some tips for proper ventilation while designing a building.
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| | Gharexpert can save you money during construction | | By: Gunjan Utraja - On 11/23/2009 - 2864 View(s) - 1 Comment(s) | | Do you know almost all individual home construction projects in India take more money to complete than what people originally plan? If planned properly, we all can save 10% or more on our home construction projects. GharExpert.com has collected a series of articles where our objective is to share with you all the tricks that you could use to save money in building your dream home! |
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| Which Are Various Reasons of Cracks in Buildings? | | By: Priti Arora - On 4/14/2009 - 3358 View(s) - 4 Comment(s) | | Cracks can happen due to foundation movements and settlements of building, thermal movements, chemical reactions, elastic deformations and shrinkage etc. in buildings. They can damage plaster of walls, ceilings and destroy the beauty of the structure also. Let’s know their reasons in detail and get preventive measures. |
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| | Outdoor Lighting | | By: Priti Arora - On 4/3/2009 - 1133 View(s) - Comment(s) | | Outdoor lighting is essential to light up paths and walkways, outdoors, driveways, pools or other areas and improves style quotient of a home also. |
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| | How to Design Patio Floor | | By: Gunjan Utraja - On 5/23/2009 - 12531 View(s) - 7 Comment(s) | | The patio flooring you choose should be appealing, easy to maintain and durable. Attractive design of patio flooring is another important feature of patio. Read about the various options available in patio flooring. |
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| | Paint for interior and exterior walls | | By: Kriti - On 11/11/2009 - 6899 View(s) - 2 Comment(s) | | Do you think that wall of your room looks very dull and uninviting? If you want to paint interior or exterior walls of your home but confused that which paint to do on interior walls and which to do on exterior walls, then here are some tips to help you |
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| | Fire Resistant Building Material | | By: Priti Arora - On 5/12/2009 - 1745 View(s) - Comment(s) | | A building constructed with fire resistant material can safe guard you and your family from fire damage. This article will tell you more about fire resistant build materials. |
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| Earthquake Resistant Building Construction | | By: Priti Arora - On 12/15/2009 - 763 View(s) - 1 Comment(s) | | Earthquake strikes suddenly without any warning. It may harm badly designed and constructed buildings which may injure or kill the people. There are some factors affecting the building safety during the earthquake. |
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| | Comparison between Basement and Additional Upper Floor | | By: Priti Arora - On 2/26/2009 - 2032 View(s) - 6 Comment(s) | | Construction of basement and multi storey building is the need of the hour as there is less availability of land and rates of the land are very high. We get additional usable space by constructing either basement or upper floor.
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| | How to ensure weight of steel members? | | By: Priti Arora - On 9/11/2009 - 299 View(s) - Comment(s) | | Before you purchase mild steel members for construction of your house, you must know weight and cost of steel members since the shopkeeper shows prices of steel members in weight. This article gives details of estimated weight and cost of steel members.
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| | How to Design Stairs? | | By: Subhash Tyagi - On 7/30/2009 - 1943 View(s) - 1 Comment(s) | | Going up and down the stairs needs much energy if the steps are not designed smoothly. For easy access to upper floors the house owner should focus on design requirements such as width, height, slope and lighting while designing stairs. This article tells you about essential design requirements of stairs.
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| Foundation | | | A good 'Foundation' means a good building because it transmits the load of structure on the ground. |
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| | Demarcation/layout Procedure | | By: Priti Arora - On 6/12/2009 - 5220 View(s) - 6 Comment(s) | | Baseline is marked on the ground either from centre line of the road or from any permanent building nearby |
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