Carpet tiles and vinyl floor tiles can be an effective flooring solution for your home, especially in busy family areas of the house. Floor tiles are easy to lay by yourself, requiring minimal DIY skills, and if you are redecorating an average sized room, you shouldn’t need to set aside more than an afternoon to complete the job.
Choosing the Best Type of Coving and Cornicing
Coving and cornicing can be an attractive way to add the finishing touch to your redecorating project by adding interest to the tops of your walls. Coving is particularly effective in period houses such as Georgian or Victorian properties but can also add interest in a more modern home.
Creating A Greener Home – Eco Flooring
There is a lot of scope when renovating or redecorating your property to introduce environmentally friendly materials into your home, reducing the carbon footprint of both your home and the renovation project itself. As being green becomes ever more popular, options such as environmentally friendly flooring from sustainable sources is not only a good option for a healthy living environment for your family, but could also be a great selling point for your home if you’re modernising or developing for property rental or resale.
Preparing to Lay a New Patio – Choosing Your Flag Stones
If you’ve decided you want to lay a new patio to enhance your garden or outdoor area, or perhaps you want to change the slabs in your yard or terrace, the first step is deciding on the location for your patio. Once you’ve planned your patio area however you can start to make preparations to begin laying your new paved seating area.
Designing a New Bathroom – Boxing in Pipes
Exposed pipework trailing across your bathroom wall, whether it’s waste pipes or water pipes, is not an attractive sight to behold, especially if you’re planning a new bathroom and want a new bathroom suite, tiles and flooring. The last thing you want is a blot on the bathroom design, and that’s exactly what exposed copper piping could look like.
Important Considerations When Planning to Lay a New Patio
There are a number of things to consider when laying a new patio in your garden, yard or outdoor area. You may think that the most important decision you need to make is the type of paving slabs you should have that will compliment the rest of your garden design or the other features in your garden, but a number of other things should be given thought before you begin to lay a new patio.
Replacing an Old Bath and Hand Basin
The first step before removing your old bath and basin would be to turn off your hot and cold water mains and drain the system, making sure that any remaining water is drained out of the water pipes by turning on the bath and sink taps. Once the water has been drained from the system, you can then continue by removing the bath panels and anything else that is holding your old bath in place.
Planning a New Garden or Outdoor Area Part 2 – Choosing Your Plants
If you are now at the stage where all of your main features have been marked out and your garden design is complete you can begin to create your dream garden. It is a good idea to start with larger fixed features like installing the pond and the patio first as these will be the most time consuming and make the most mess.
How to Install a Dishwasher or Washing Machine
You need to firstly spend some time finding a convenient spot to place the machine especially if the connecting pipe and waste pipe are not already installed in your home. All machines need to stand as firm as possible and should ideally be placed against an exterior wall. By placing them against an exterior wall it means there is then no need for waste pipe to be running inside your wall in your house.
More Ideas for Making Your Home More Energy Efficient
Carrying on from the last post where we covered the 2 biggest and most cost effective ways to save money and eco retrofit your house, there are lots of other ways to be green. Every little bit you do can contribute and below are some more ideas for reducing your home’s carbon footprint and increasing the energy efficiency of your home.