Home renovations on the television look incredibly simple. The project starts when the show begins and is over before the hour or half an hour is up. This is not the way that home renovations work in real life. You most likely don't have lying around your home to speed up the process. Instead, home renovations take a long time and can be tedious fro novice builders. The television shows have the help of professional builders to make the project go along smoothly.
Home renovations shows offer a ton of great ideas for home improvements. However, they do not offer all of the advice that is necessary to complete them. There are things that you should consider before embarking on a huge home renovation. One of which should be your skill level. Unless you are a professional builder, you will not be able to finish project with the ease of those on television.
Home improvement shows take shacks and make them into quaint cottages. Flipping houses is the most recent home improvement show theme. What it means to flip a house is to buy a low priced, rundown house and make it beautiful before selling it for a nice profit. Renovations on have way decent houses are difficult. When the home is in very bad shape, renovations could take months or even year sot finish. Also the buyer must have lots of money to invest in the house before they can fix it up and sell it.
House flipping should not be taken lightly. Also, anyone that tries to do this in real life should check out the shows that follow up on the flipped houses. These shows give viewers a truer sense of what happens after the flipped house is ready to sell because they show how the profit can be much less than originally expected.
Wall replacement is not the easy task that home improvement shows make it out to be. Simply taking out a few walls can be very dangerous. On television, within half an hour the walls of a house are torn down a and replaced. Surely there are some wives that have come home to find that their husband, inspired by a renovation show, has torn down a wall. A very important aspect of wall removal is load bearing. Load bearing walls is an important aspect to know about because being unfamiliar with this process could cause the whole house to fall down.
Watch home improvement shows with caution. Be in awe of the elaborate improvements that are made but beware of trying them on your own. Watch but do not attempt these feats on your own.
When it comes to home improvement, most people think that it's has to do with painting the house from inside out and forget about it.
But any architectural structure is much more than just walls and ceiling. There are many systems working simultaneously which keep the building under function.
Let's have a look at these systems one by one.
1) Structural System:
This includes the support system of the entire building, namely foundation, columns, beams, slabs(in R.C.C structure). The most commonly used structural systems is R.C.C. Other types include steel and wood.
While renovating a building special attention must be given to the structural support system. Slabs should be checked to be leak proof. Columns and beams which are exposed to external atmosphere must be checked for damage. R.C.C structural members are always covered with plaster. This plaster must be without damage.
In case of steel structures, anti-rust treatment must be applied wherever necessary.
In case of wooden structure anti-termite treatment must be applied wherever necessary.
2) Plumbing System:
All pipelines which carry water in and out of the structure must be checked for leakage. The main are of possible leakage is at the joints, hence must be carefully treated.
Water taps at the washbasins, inside bathrooms, kitchen sinks, toilet blocks, should be checked for good and smooth operating conditions.
3)Drainage System:
Drainage from kitchen, bathrooms, toilets should have an unobstructed and shortest path to outside chambers. Any clogging of these lines can cause overflowing of the chambers, hence should be checked and cleaned.
4)Electrical Systems:
This starts with the main supply of the electricity from the local authorities. The point of entering the main supply should be checked for any excessive disturbance in voltage levels, which might cause damage to electrical appliances inside.
All switch boards and switches in respective rooms should be checked for proper and safe functioning. Security systems such as earthing and M.C.B's should be checked for safe functioning.
5) Doors and Windows
These form an important part of any structure as far as safety is concerned. Proper functioning of the doors and window shutters is necessary. If your home has a security alarm system installed, then it must be kept updated and in proper working condition.
Door and window shutter hinges should be applied with lubricants for smooth operations. I case of sliding doors and windows, tracks which allow sliding should be dust free.
6) Glass Panes
All glass panes used on windows and doors should be dust free. Any broken or cracked glass panes should be replaced immediately.
If the building has a skylight, then it should be checked to be leak proof and clean, to allow clear and unobstructed sunlight in the interiors.
7) Flooring Materials
In most cases tiles are used for flooring. All tiles should be checked for cracks and most importantly leveling.
In every home flooring has a natural slope to avoid clogging of water if any such situation arises. Tiled flooring must be checked at joints. Any cracks in joins must be checked with proper bonding material.
In case of wooden flooring, extra care must be taken to keep the flooring termite-free.
8) Wall Plaster and Wall Paint.
All external walls must be checked from outside for a proper layer of plaster. Plaster prevents the rainwater to seep inside the structure. If external plaster gets damaged, rain water seeps inside causing dampening of walls.
All internal walls must be checked for scraping of paint.
8) Furniture and Carpentry Items.
All furniture items must be termite free and sturdy at the joints. A coat of good quality wooden polish can add life to the furniture pieces.
Other carpentry work includes door and window shutters, door and window frames.
9) Other Accessories.
This includes small thing which matter a lot, such as all the locking arrangement at doors, windows, towel rods in the bathroom/wash basins, arrangement to dry washed clothes, storage arrangements in kitchen/bathroom.
10)External Systems
This can include a solar water heater, electric pumps to push the water from underground water tank to Overhead water tank., Cable TV antennas.
All these systems must be checked for proper functioning.
From the above discussion it is clear that proper functioning of any architectural structure is dependant of many complex systems which work simultaneously.
Hence all these must be given attention and respect. Any building is just like a human body, with movable and stationary parts. If dealt with proper care can give a very healthy living experience for years to come.
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