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| | How to hire a carpenter? | | | Superb craftsmanship on wood articles plays a dominant role in making your home wow. A professional carpenter is required to do this job well for your home. This article gives you some useful tips on how to hire a qualified carpenter to make your home excellent.
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| | Green Your Home | |  Do you want to make your home energy efficient and environment friendly? Make use of energy saving equipments and opt for natural lighting and ventilation. Let’s know more about energy efficient homes through this article.
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| | Indoor Air Quality | | | Do you know unhygienic indoor air can create risks to our lives? It can cause asthma, allergic diseases and respiratory problems. This article lets you know several causes and remedial measures of indoor air quality. |
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| | Daylighting | | | Do you want to increase your working efficiency and reduce energy cost too? Opt for daylighting which offers strong health and good working environment in addition to reduction in energy cost/bills up to 50 %. Let’s read this article to know more facts.
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| | Gharexpert can save you money during construction | | | 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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| | Selection of A Site | | | The selection of a site depends upon ones present and future spatial requirements, the envisaged available funds, one’s lifestyle. |
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| | Bacteria Free Home | | | Bacteria affect the health of the occupants of the house adversely. By adopting the following points during construction |
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| | Protection against Mosquitoes | | | A few diseases like Dengue and Chikungunya have resulted in expressions of confusion all around. These diseases are transmitted by infected mosquitoes. Hence prevention is the most effective solution. |
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| | Building New Home V/S Buying Builder Flat | | | 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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| | Proper Ventilation | | | Proper ventilation freshens our breaths and leads us a healthy life. If you design or modify the house with maximum ventilation by installing proper windows and ventilators which gives more light and fresh air in the building. |
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| Analysis & Rates | | | The capacity of doing work by an artisan or skilled labour in the form of quantity of work per day is known as the task work or out turn of the labour. The out-turn of work per artisan varies to some extent according to the nature, size, height, situation, location, etc. In well organized work less labour is required. The following may be taken as the approximate quantity of work or out turn or task for an average artisan per day. |
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| | Star Contributors | | | GharExpert.com would like to thank Rajni Jhabak, Amika Rai and Love Thy Community for their contribution to GharExpert database. |
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| | Building Architect vs. Structure Engineer | | | It is very important to know the difference between architect and structure engineer if you are planning to construct your house. An architect is one who draws the house plans and structural engineer is one who designs the overall internal structure of the house keeping load and bearing capacity in mind. |
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| Types of arch | | | Types of Arches:
Segmental arch ( Syrian arch) : An arch which is not whole semicircular and not flat. You can use th |
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| Parts of an arch | | | Definition of parts of an arch with diagram. Parts of an arch: Voussoir, crown, Keystone, Pier, Intrados, Extrados, Impost, Haunch, Spandrel |
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| Balcony | | | Balcony is an extended platform that projects from a wall(interior or exterior) of a building, supported by columns and some time covered by railing/ balustrades/parapet for privacy. |
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| Cupola | | | A cupola is small dome like structure, placed on top of the building. This structure is often used for providing light and air. |
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| How to select Mason | | | For all type of construction, weather new or alteration, Mason is a very important and selection of a mason is not a big deal. Here are few tips you need to choose a mason. |
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| Labor Contract vs. material contract | | | In building construction work, there are many aspects or things to be done by building owner such as arranging drawings, design, sanctions, labor and material etc. In this article there is comparison between through rate contact and labor contract. |
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