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Electric heated floors are great during cold winter months because they keep your floors warm which is especially useful with kids around the house. Kids can catch a cold by walking barefoot on cold floors, whether it is hardwood floors or marble floors. This is why more people prefer to install flooring that has heaters. Everyone prefers to have warm floors as opposed to freezing cold floors, especially during the winter months. Underfloor heating is a common thing in countries which have winter as a season. It is built like an electric blanket except it’s a floor tile. The heaters are usually made of fibreglass mesh backed rolls that looks…

Most of us complain about the lack of space in our kitchen. A messy, cluttered kitchen is not an appealing place to spend time even to prepare a simple meal. So how can we maximize the space in the kitchen and make it look bigger? Paint the kitchen with a light color as this will make it look more spacious whereas dark colors make a room appear smaller. Choose light colored flooring as well. Add more cabinets; they can be under and over the counter tops and paint them the same color as the walls. Use these to store kitchen appliances without cluttering counter tops. Cluttered counter tops will make…

Are you planning to change the flooring in your home? Trying to decide between the classic timeless beauty of hardwood floors and the cozy, warm comfort of carpeting?  There is more to choosing flooring than what the eye can see. The main advantage of hardwood is that it is easy to maintain, just vacuum and wet mop and you have a spotlessly clean floor. But carpeting needs regular vacuuming and shampooing, but will still have residue dirt, dust, pet dander and mould trapped under the weave and padding. This makes carpets unsuitable for people suffering from allergies such as asthma. Regular wear and tear would discolor the carpet over time…

Setting up air conditioners in your house is an expensive affair. Not only do you have to buy air conditioning units for each room, but you also have the added expense of maintain multiple units going forward, including repairs and filling up gas. This is where a portable room air conditioner comes in. No installation charges, no breaking walls, just plug and play. A single unit or two will be more than enough to move around a house. When it comes to offices or server rooms, portable air conditioning units will not do. You need proper cooling systems that utilize newer fan coil units that can provide the kind of…

For those of you who live in the tropics, you will have no idea how cold it can get anywhere where temperatures often drop below zero degrees Celsius. While one solution is to turn that thermostat up, the floor stays cold and this means that either you have to cover your feet or find a device that can provide floor heat separately. Perhaps your first reaction might be that this is just another device that promises but does not deliver.  The method of heating is very different as opposed to other devices since it uses pipes that are placed under the tiles in order to provide the desired effect of…

Not so long ago, it is difficult to hire the services of General Contractors Los Angeles when the construction market was booming, especially if the remodeling work you needed for your home was a small one. Of course, all that has changed now, with the crash of the construction, mortgage, and real estate market.  This is why it is an opportune time for you to complete that Home Improvement Los Angeles project that you might have been sitting on for a while now. Since there are very few jobs in the market today, thanks to the reluctance of people who need to invest a considerable amount of money in redoing…