Minor repairs to the window double sash extra security Drill a hole through the lintel of the window to the lower half thickness of the lower threshold of the upper frame. Use a nail that you customized formwork and saw the hole stops. Make sure you drill the hole diagonally so the nail is not [...]

Do It Yourself Materials for the paneling and door profiles are obviously ready for sale. More satisfactory per – soonlijker and maybe nicer to yourself to make a flat surface. Doors and walls in the building where usually lend themselves perfectly for. It is also considerably cheaper than the ready made products and make it [...]

Painting the house – outside painting Exterior paint or stain has primarily a protective function, perhaps especially indoors where the decorative value. How your house permanently and professionally maintained and what materials you will need to be step by step description. Paint – traditional colors The color choice and color in the painting is mostly [...]

Quality and Paint The ingredients of the paint, including the added pigments and the ultimate hiding power to a large extent determine the quality and the processing ease of a paint. Therefore not skimp on the purchase of the paint, because even in this regard: “cheap is expensive purchase. This means in practice that leads [...]

Plastic doors and windows Long time from the environmental considerations and subsidies for selected plastic windows, window frames, doors and molding for the house to renovate or decorate. The fact that plastic is less frequent maintenance, play (the) course a role in the choice. Problem is that you are bound to the color and appearance [...]

Sanding and polishing For sanding or polishing is an abrasive material used. Under an abrasive means any natural or artificially manufactured granular materials, which due to their hardness sanded, ground, polished or brushed may be. These abrasives are often only in combination with a substrate and / or binder in the market offered. It is [...]

Painting – Kitchen Plan First you decide what you want the kitchen doors. Let your cabinet doors-in-based as they are, or spend your first example profile of a slat, so they may get a different look? Then you determine the material of the substrate, which is important for your first choice of backing. Make any [...]

Staircase with board and MDF By applying the paneling of the staircase, go in the same way as in the article Paneling – Door described. -You can determine the sloping sides called a zwei-hook use, so you get a nice course. Keep-where the horizontal and vertical pillars-the width of the paneling that you and / [...]

Cost saving and home insulation Glazed Double insulated glass cost about 50 euros per square meter of insulation. HR + + Double glazed costs about 70 euros per square meter. These costs per square meter including VAT, but excluding materials and labor. Average savings per square meter of gas is between 15 and 21 euros. [...]

Attic floor insulation Insulate the attic floor and attic storage space will be used already. However, if the attic will do service as sleep, study or hobby, then isolate the roof, so the room is more comfortable. To avoid dangerous condensation, the insulation on the warm side (ie where firing is) have a vapor barrier [...]