If you need some work done around your home, or are planning to sell your home, or need financial advice do you know how to find a good local business? Of course, you could simply look in the local telephone directory and start making some phone calls, or you could ask your friends, family, or neighbours. However, another great resource is the local directories of tradesmen and other local businesses that you can find both in print, and on the Internet.
Everyone has heard horror stories about cowboy tradies, shonky builders, and simply unethical contractors, and finding someone who is local, trusted, and reliable is a huge priority when you have something need doing that requires a professional. However, many people are not sure how to find good local tradesmen that are both affordable, ethical, and most importantly, trust worthy.
Below are some tips to finding a good tradie that should help you find the right one for the job.
We live at a time when DIY seems to be the way to go for home owners when it comes to renovations. For many home owners, doing renovation work by themselves not only saves them money, but also gives them the satisfaction of having used their own two hands to create something for their own homes.
A DIY renovation project is good, but the truth of the matter is, getting professionals to at least help in planning the whole thing is even better. They are more skilled and infinitely more experienced at planning a renovation project than the average home owner. To drive this point home, here are 5 reasons calling in the pros for a renovation is worth it.
Are you looking for a House Painter in Sydney?Painting your own house can be fun, and it’s a great way for you and your loved ones to bond. However, there is likely a big difference between the painting job that you and your family can do and one done by a skilled and experienced painter. If you want your home to have that professional finish you’ve always wanted, your best bet would be to find a professional painter in Sydney. Here are 5 useful tips that could help you find a professional painter.
For a long time, most homes depended on just curtains to add visual appeal to their windows. These days, however, many home owners go for blinds for various reasons. Aside from being even more aesthetic, blinds are also more practical in so many ways.
Aside from décor and sunlight control, blinds also provide you privacy. More importantly, blinds help your home become more energy efficient, especially during the summer when the scorching heat of the sun passes through your glass windows and makes your air conditioner work harder, which results in larger electricity bills.
If you’re thinking about switching to blinds, you need to know how to choose the perfect blinds for your home. To help you get started, here are the types of blinds that are available in Australia.
In general, buying or selling property is a fairly drama-free affair. That is, until your neighbour claims that you have encroached on his property. That is where all the fun begins. Actually, a friend has actually experienced this. He had a fence built around his newly bought house, only to find out later that his fence to the right actually sat on his neighbour’s property.
Lucky for him, it was just a simple fence. If the encroaching structure was anything bigger than that, it would have been a pretty costly proposition. You can only imagine how much of a hassle it would have been for him if the encroaching structure was a veranda or eaves that cross into the airspace of his neighbor. Even worse would be if the encroaching structure was a swimming pool that he has poured a lot of money into.
The thing is, property encroachment can actually be avoided before it happens. If you want to avoid encroaching on your neighbours, we’d like to share some tips in that regard.
Here’s a bit of great news for home owners who are renovating to sell. According to a report on Smart Property Investment, you can boost apartment value with a second bathroom, and by a significant amount at that.
For couples living under one roof, the idea of initiating a renovation project for their home together seems like a very romantic idea. After all, what could be more romantic than making your dream home come true by working with the person you love on it? Alas, a renovation project is not that simple. Exciting, yes, but easy, no. As a matter of fact, renovations could prove to be so stressful it’s not uncommon for couple to get into arguments or fights over the way they’re going. Some relationships may even suffer so much strain with the renovation that they eventually fall apart.
However, don’t let the preceding paragraph scare you if you’re a couple planning to get some renovation work done. Far more couples have survived a renovation than those that broke up. Here are some tips that we hope would help make your relationship survive a renovation project.
When it comes to making our homes more energy efficient, we often bury ourselves in doing things like installing ceiling fans, changing light bulbs to more efficient ones, installing programmable thermostats and sealing and insulating our homes that we often overlook the attic, which is one part of the house that is actually an essential part of the overall energy profile of your home.
Many home owners actually don’t realise that attic ventilation is so crucial to keeping your home warm during colder months and cool in the summer. In addition, attic ventilation also helps deliver fresh air throughout the home, giving us a lot of comfort and allows us to save money as well.
There will always be moisture in the air in your home, especially when you live in a place with a more humid climate. While moisture in the air in general is okay and, in fact, important for good health, too much of it inside your home can lead to several issues. Aside from causing health problems, too much moisture in the air inside your home could also be detrimental to the structure of your own home.
