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Why Most Basement Finishing Projects Get an F For Fresh Air
Interior Design Styles

Why Most Basement Finishing Projects Get an F For Fresh Air

- by Christian Harris

How You Can Avoid the Same Problem

One challenge you will find in many basement finishing projects is the original builder placed mechanical systems without regard to any plans you may have. Chances are your furnace and water heater, as well as numerous pipes and ducts, are located in the basement.

Of course, it will be ideal if you might go back and redesign the mechanical systems together with your basement finishing project in mind, but that simply isn’t realistic. So, you’ll have to work with what you’ve been given.

You’ll no doubt must create a separate room that can keep the furnace and trouble heater outside of your project. However, don’t simply close the furnace and think you’re done.

Basement finishing creates some unique challenges on your furnace.

In previous articles within this series on basement finishing, we’ve discussed the have to develop a furnace analysis, and also make …

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Basement Finishing - The MOST Important Question
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Basement Finishing – The MOST Important Question

- by Christian Harris

What is the central question just before employing a contractor for your basement finishing project?

Believe it or otherwise, the key question may also are the least asked: Do you carry Worker’s Compensation Insurance?

Why on earth would that be the key question?

If you engage a contractor to function in your home, you will be legally liable to buy medical bills and a day off if he gets hurt. It doesn’t matter if he could be licensed, unlicensed, a sole proprietor, an official of your corporation, a bum over the street, or possibly a millionaire – YOU are “the boss.”

Regardless of who your basement finishing contractor is, in the event you pay someone to function at home, you are an “employer” under workers’ compensation law.

As the party providing “employment,” you happen to be also responsible for providing compensation if someone is hurt at your residence.

Who would

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Affordable New Home Construction - 5 Tips on Getting the Most For Your Money
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Affordable New Home Construction – 5 Tips on Getting the Most For Your Money

- by Christian Harris

With the real estate market floundering in many areas nationwide, this may be the best time to build a new home rather than buying an existing home. Building a home can be affordable, if you follow these tips:

Affordable New Home Construction Tip #1: Estimate First – Plan Second

Just like a kid in a toy store, it’s easy to get carried away once the idea machine is turned on. Extra bedrooms, an exercise room, a studio, a home office – all of these add-ons will have a dramatic impact on your new home’s price tag. Subtracting them from your building plan because they put your project over budget, even if that plan lives only in your imagination, is painful. Better to add them in if your budget allows after you’ve gotten several estimates.

Affordable New Home Construction Tip #2: Location Still Matters

There may be a very good reason …

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The Beauty of Butterfly Lamps
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The Beauty of Butterfly Lamps

- by Christian Harris

Many people especially children loves butterflies so much and through these butterfly lamps, they will be able to enjoy the view and witness their beauty. There are lots of lamp designs out in the market that brings out the joy of all butterfly lovers in the world. These designs will surely captivate their hearts and will catch their attention when seen in shop displays, television advertisements and in the internet.

These lamps are customized made that will really please their desires.

One will just have to choose and purchase a lamp design that will fit on the kind of atmosphere one wants or the kind of butterfly one adores so much to experience the beauty of these lamps. There are lamps with butterfly designed posts or even the shade filled with colorful butterfly patterns. Also there are shades designed like a miniature of a butterfly that really projects one. But …

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Things to Know before Wall Mounting Your TV
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Things to Know before Wall Mounting Your TV

- by Christian Harris

Wall mounting your TV is most probably the great idea because TVs nowadays come with thin panels which make them look fabulous when they are mounted on wall. It also saves extra space but doing this installation by yourself can be a daunting task. You should rather hire a TV installation company to have a perfectly fine Wall mount.

Following mentioned are some of the key things that you are required to consider to select the perfect TV mount for your home based on your TV type and TV specifications.

About TV wall mounts

Normally all the kinds of TV wall mounts are compatible with the drywall’s and there is some special kinds of hardware too that makes the TV mount compatible even on the wet walls but you need to include drywall anchors and bolts to it. If are you are thinking to wall mount your TV on a …

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