Remodeling Tips
| Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:00:00 PST Building a Remodel Budget in 10 Easy Steps Before you begin painting a room and moving furniture around, you need a plan, or design. Part of that design is considering how much you can spend on your remodel, and how you want to spend it. Here are 10 steps to help you manage your decorating budget.
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| Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:30:00 PST Home Remodeling Tips Remodeling your home can be a great way to improve the value of your house and will also give it an updated look. Many times home remodeling is done out of necessity and other times it is done out of desire. In either case, by following a few simple tips you can save yourself some time and some money when you go to remodel your home.
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| Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:30:00 PST The Swish of the Sash Window To keep the authentic beauty of any period property you must make absolutely sure that your renovations and replacements are sympathetic to your houses' architectural historical style. These rules should be tapered with at your peril. Once a houses' equilibrium has been put out of balance, it's a devil of a job to get it back into harmony.
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| Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST Timber My Sashes Timber is an excellent material for sash window construction. Wood is scientifically proven to provide very good thermal resistance i.e. it is a very poor conductor of heat, which in sash window construction is a good thing.
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| Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:30:00 PDT A Guide to Buying a Spiral Staircase With many people renovating their existing properties rather than opting to move, a staircase which takes up less space for accessing new levels or rooms has never been a more popular feature. A spiral staircase can take up nearly half the room of a conventional straight flight staircase, whilst still providing a convenient means of ascent.
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| Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:30:00 PDT Make That Room Bigger With a Structural Knockthrough If you need to change the layout of your home then making a structural alteration to open up a wall is great way to go. The wall you want to open up though will need to be assessed to check if it supporting any other loads.This may be a brick load or even the floor timbers so it will be necessary to do a few checks first.
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| Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:30:00 PDT Essentials of Remodeling Before putting on the ceiling, all openings, through which fire might find quick passage to the structure above, should be adequately fire stopped. It is best to use incombustible materials for fire stopping, such as crushed refuse mortar, plaster, concrete, hollow tile, gypsum block, broken brick, or other similar material, containing sufficient fine stuff to fill voids.
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| Aug 31 2010 09:10:00AM Best Reader Reuse Ideas With a little imagination and some basic building supplies these resourceful TOH readers turned trash into treasure |
| Aug 31 2010 09:10:00AM 10 Uses for Yogurt Cups Don't ditch these plastic containers after eating their contents. TOH reader Mark Feroglia has lots of creative ideas for recycling them |
| Aug 31 2010 09:10:00AM 10 Uses for Sand If you've ever deiced your driveway, mixed concrete, or filled a sandbox, you likely have a leftover bag or two of these great grains. Here's how to put them to work |
| Aug 31 2010 09:10:00AM 10 Uses for Foam Packing Peanuts Sure, you can keep the little polystyrene squiggles around for boxing up breakables—or you can put them to use in these innovative ways |
| Aug 31 2010 09:10:00AM 10 Uses for Charcoal Don't let that half-empty bag from last summer sit around. Charcoal—the natural lump variety made from hardwood—can do more than cook burgers |
| Aug 31 2010 09:10:00AM 10 Uses for Your Christmas Tree Don't just toss the tannenbaum in the trash. Try some of these clever reuse ideas instead |
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