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Properly Planning Home Improvements

. Home Improvement by Tyson Markle . Comments Off on Properly Planning Home Improvements

If your goal is boosting your home value, then you first need to know how much it is currently worth. You need to have a good idea just how much value you will get from a home improvement so you can know where your home value will wind up, and then you can figure out whether or not it is worth all the time and money you have to invest into it.

You have to know what your budget is. You might identify a five thousand dollar project that adds fifteen thousand to your home value. But what if you only have two thousand dollars free? At that budget, you should not even do a two thousand dollar project because you have no wiggle room for errors, accidents or overruns.

Make sure that you apply for and receive all needed permission for the project you want. At a minimum, you … Read the rest

Choose Oak Dining Table

. Home Improvement by Tyson Markle . Comments Off on Choose Oak Dining Table

The first thing you need to think about is where your oak dining table is going to go in your home (you probably know this already). Chances are it’ll be in your dining room itself, so you need to go and measure your dining room’s dimensions so that you know what kind of sized space you’re working with. There’s no point going out and blindly buying an oak wood dining table and then hoping it fits! The next question to ask yourself is ‘how many people does this wood dining table have to seat?’ This is just as important as the previous question, and will help you decide whether you need to buy just a cheap dining table or an entire dining room set (with chairs and all).

Next (and perhaps most importantly for some people) we have to think about our budget (i.e. how much you have to spend) … Read the rest

Remove Asbestos Tile

. Home Improvement by Tyson Markle . Comments Off on Remove Asbestos Tile

If there is a need to remove asbestos tiles from a home, there are things that are needed to keep it from doing any damage. First and foremost, the people working on the project’s health needs to be a huge consideration. So a full protective suit with a hood should be worn to keep any fibers from getting on the body or in the lungs.

Gloves, glasses, and a special asbestos respirator are also essential to maintain the health and safety of those removing the tiles. A bag that is made to hold in the asbestos fibers when they are discarded is also recommended. This keeps the fibers from contaminating anything that may be used and it also keeps them from getting in the air.

Take everything out of the room where the tiles are located and cover the floor with fabric cloths to catch the fibers. Make sure that

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