| | Orientation of Building | | By: Subhash Tyagi - On 5/15/2009 - 4038 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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| | Building New Home V/S Buying Builder Flat | | By: Priti Arora - On 8/29/2009 - 302 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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| | Gharexpert can save you money during construction | | By: Gunjan Utraja - On 11/23/2009 - 3065 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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| | Fire Resistant Building Material | | By: Priti Arora - On 5/12/2009 - 1876 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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| Which Are Various Reasons of Cracks in Buildings? | | By: Priti Arora - On 4/14/2009 - 3520 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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| What steps are recommended for painting an existing building? | | By: Priti Arora - On 7/24/2009 - 640 View(s) - Comment(s) | | It may be necessary to prepare your walls painting if they are worse and solid to remove the natural household layers those can be, especially in the kitchens and the rooms adjoining the kitchen .
Remove dust, stains and grease by using a household detergent and warm water. Rinse well. |
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| | Guidelines for Ventilation in Building | | By: Priti Arora - On 2/12/2009 - 1366 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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| Earthquake Resistant Building Construction | | By: Priti Arora - On 12/15/2009 - 1055 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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| 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 - 5498 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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| | How to ensure weight of steel members? | | By: Priti Arora - On 9/11/2009 - 335 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 - 2205 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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| | Comparison between Basement and Additional Upper Floor | | By: Priti Arora - On 2/26/2009 - 2053 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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