Archive for October 2011
Basic Exterior Home Inspection
October 28, 2011 | 
Author Hi Buddies! Live the life you want, right now!
A home in general is being attracted by its exterior appearance which gives in an urge to purchase it. The exterior not only attracts but also gives an impression in our minds about the residents in the home. Initially the grading of property driveway and walkways has to be sloped around the home away from exterior walls. Ensure that Inorder to shed water away all exterior landscape slopes away and a proper installation is done for drainage system that pipes water away. Viewing the roof and chimney of your home with binoculars helps you to take protective measures for any loss in material, cracking, and damage, expanding keyways, cracking ridge shingles, cracked bricks, missing mortar, rounding over of shingle ends, fish mouthing and lifting.
Check for any crack, loose gravel asphalt and damage and rectify the condition of driveway and walkway. Ensure your safety from insects by having trees at least three feet of space from your home and also have a look over the vegetation and trees and cut off bare limbs and branches if they are too many. Metal sidings acts as a protective shell for your home to keep water out and hence attach siding properly if it is missing and paint your home at least once in five years. Look for the signs of damage, wear or broken part of every window and doors from exterior and fix the missing trim for not allowing water to enter inside.
Posted in Exterior Designing | 
Tags: exterior appearance, Metal sidings, paint, proper installation, protective measures | 
No Comments »
Make Home Storage Space
Hi Buddies! Live the life you want, right now!
Designing a storage room in your home helps you in efficiently storing all things in an organized way to easily locate items. Hence a clean and clear store room helps you to keep inventory and other larger items which may not be used by you on a daily basis. Design the store room satisfying your need with best fitted shelves, magazine holders, drawers, racks and over the door organizers with different sizes and dimensions matching your storage items with sufficient lighting facilities. Keep floor and storage shelves neat and clean and fix reliable lights best matching the storage of food items with the correct temperature whether hot or cold.
Have a collection of plastic and paper covers helping you further for any packaging purposes. Empty bins frequently if kept any and keep pantry, hardware, garage, decorative, software items, sharp items and tool kits away from reach of children. In case of rods kept for hanging of clothes, install and additional rod if necessary and increase the height of rod to hang clothes like pants and coats and organize them according to the color and season. Ensure that the items kept in the storage boxes are used by you before the expiry date and dispose if there any broken sporting and other equipments. Cover and protect infrequently used items by placing them into boxes or by plastic bags and maintain a clean storage room which saves your time and energy to find out things.
Posted in Storage Space | Tags: clean storage room, efficiently storing, storage room, storage shelves, sufficient lighting | No Comments »
Attic and Crawl Spaces
Hi Buddies! Live the life you want, right now!
Ventilation of every home acts as the best moisture management tool initially done during the construction of home. Proper ventilation not only prevents moisture related problems but also helps good quality flow of air through attic and crawl spaces. Considerable moisture adds in the attic and crawl areas due to the normal activities in utility room, kitchens, bathroom and firewood stored indoors. Underside of roof or floor sheathing is the result of inadequate ventilation which increases moisture content. One solution to build in more ventilation would be to provide a gap at panel edges and all end joints and the assistance of polyethylene retarder is required.
Proper installation of the vapor retarder as ground cover minimizes crawl space moisture and provides adequate drainage far away from the foundation. Additional care should be taken that is no blockage of soffit vents insulation and ridge vents blockage from the roofing underlayment. The initial installment of attic and crawl spaces are generally handled by the expert team who assemble and install within minutes best matching your design and construction of house. Your basements also need attic and crawl spaces as it protects your personal belongings from excessive humidity and other damages caused by water, fungus and bacteria.
Posted in Crawl Spaces | Tags: attic and crawl spaces, inadequate ventilation, moisture management, no blockage, Ventilation | No Comments »
Prevention of fire in Exterior, Smoking materials and Sleep area
Hi Buddies! Live the life you want, right now!
Checklist given helps you in the right way to get rid of fire and other injuries at home. Adopting this checklist helps you to build a healthy and happy family. With respect to the prevention of fire in exterior of your home ensure the clear visibility of address written clear with numbers with 3-5 inches with contrasting colors. Ensure at least ten feet from your home of firewood stacked and the clarity of your home away from all dead grass and trash. Avoid using charcoal and make sure that the grill and barbecue is on a wooden deck or porch which is at least three feet away from your house. Place the ashes and coals in the metal container away from your home and have a check over the cleanliness and condition of the chimney.
With respect to the fire prevention on smoking materials check whether you have a large, deep and non-tip ashtray which makes useless if you’re a smoker who wets all butts and ashes. Lock up high your matches and lighters which are always out of reach for your children’s safety. There are other tips which act as a safety measure which can be followed before going to bed by extinguishing your smoking materials, putting off all burners, candles, oil lamps and oven, unplugging coffee pot, heating pad and lights. Ensure whether your gates, door and car are locked and keys kept safely in the right place.
Posted in Home Safety | Tags: ashtray, chimney, get rid of fire, healthy family, injuries | No Comments »
