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Things to Consider for Your Flooring

Things to Consider for Your Flooring

What goes on the floor is one of the most important elements in a room. the decision requires major soul-searching because it’s expensive, it must be hard-wearing, glamorous, or at least easy on the eye, and it will be with you for a long time.

Tips on Decorating Your Dining Rooms

Tips on Decorating Your Dining Rooms

Dining rooms can be an afterthought in new houses where casual living spaces gets precedence. If it’s worth having one, it should be a practical size.

Garden Resource Guide

Garden Resource Guide

Groundcovers don’t have to be low-growing. Any densely foliaged plant that covers the soil can be called a groundcover and that includes shrubs, perennials and some ferns.

Water-wise Garden

Water-wise Garden

Follow our step-by-step guide, to help your garden use less in time and money -- yet thrive in all conditions as it never has before.

Climate to Consider When Designing Your Garden

Climate to Consider When Designing Your Garden

A comfortable garden needs a balance between sun and shade, through the day and through the year, and once you know which way your property faces you can plan for it quite easily.

Guide in Building a Timber Fence

Guide in Building a Timber Fence

Putting up a timber fence is a satisfying project that does not require any special skills or tools. the hardest part is digging the holes, after that the structure takes shape quickly.

How to Improve Your Garden with Gladdies

How to Improve Your Garden with Gladdies

Gladdies make exquisite cut flowers and, with a rich palette of colours, they suit all sorts of arrangements.

Things That Destroys Timber

Things That Destroys Timber

The main destroyers of timber that concern us are rot, borers and termites. Others such as fire and wear and tear are controlled by care.

Facts About Timber

Facts About Timber

There are many publications which classify timber according to its durability and suggest where species of timber are tested for strength.

Some Things You Must Know About Your Hot Water System

Some Things You Must Know About Your Hot Water System

Hot water systems come in many shapes and sizes. They may be powered by electricity, gas, solar, wood or chip; large or small storage types; main pressure (unvented) or gravity feed (vented), or instantaneous.

Choosing The Right Windows and Doors

Choosing The Right Windows and Doors

Windows and doors are important investments in any newly built home or major renovation.

Tips before Buying Tools needed for Painting

Tips before Buying Tools needed for Painting

Painting is done with brushes, rollers or occasionally by spray painting. Before you begin, you need an array of paint scrapers, hot air guns or blowtorches, shaving hooks and sandpaper.

Basic Tool Kits for a DIYer

Basic Tool Kits for a DIYer

Some tools are specialised, and if these are not mentioned in this chapter they may appear in later chapters where their use is specified.

Tools that are Best Hired than Bought

Tools that are Best Hired than Bought

Equipment may also include props, trestles, barrows, skips, and so on. Here are some of the most common tools.

Basic Power Tools For DIY Home Repairs

Basic Power Tools For DIY Home Repairs

Power Tools are the things Father’s Day is made of. The electric drill has taken over completely from the hand drill and the brace and bit. The bench grinder and jigsaw may come in quite handy. Others should only be bought for a specific purpose.

Building for energy-efficiency

Building for energy-efficiency

If you’re building a new home, now is the time to bring together the benefits of great design and energy-efficiency. Clever thinking at the design stage can pay huge dividends later on.

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