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| Rains and strong winds damage the roofs |
| Avoid the damage of his house for the spring thunderstorms |
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Bertha Sáenz
Washington Hispanic
The thunderstorms with so common rains in many during the spring that might have disastrous effects in his hearth if it does not take the necessary measures to avoid damages.
The strong winds and the spring rains might damage the roofs and infiltrate into the housing for other means, as across doors and frames of windows badly sealed. Only it is enough a few inches of water to damage seriously walls, apartments and other areas of the hearth.
If it does not realize a routine examination in his house before the winter period, at least it might check and repair certain places before the rains come. Next, the places that he must inspect.
• If his house has attic, rise to detect if there are places for which it has penetrated the water.
• Inspect the chimney and any ventilation orifice to detect any crack or filtration in the water bars.
• Inspect the eaves to see if stagnant water of the snowfalls stays.
• Inspect the roof to detect peeled, flaky or lost tiles. Probably have to replace all the tiles or repair certain areas.
• Inspect the gutters to clean piled up sheets or granules of the tiles of the roof, indicators of which the same ones are spent and need substitution.
• Inspect to detect bleaching about the frames of doors and windows. This might indicate filtrations or accumulation of condensation that has penetrated in the wood or the boards of plaster of the walls.
• Inspect the property to detect any level change in the area as a consequence of the snow and the work for palearla. Look for water accumulations. A change in the level of the area might do that the water flows towards the house instead of doing it
far from this one.
| From the safety system up to the shower |
| The life with a little of technology |
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At present, the digital technologies provide to the consumers more suitable options and of easy use to redeem any type of function, from the safety system of the housing up to the shower.
This is a new measurement of the interests that every family
But the key to gain him the interest of the consumer is in the creation of a product that offers a real benefit, and whose use is not too overwhelming. Big news for the Hispanics, who are extremely dedicated to his hearths, they focus in the decoration and attack reshaping projects to embellish the house, to extend the rooms or to realize additions.
According to the results of a study realized by Iconoculture, “the consumers look for a major expediency in the hearth, and open the welcome carpet to the product that could create a more perfect experience. In order that they could be of easy use, both for the connoisseurs and for the neophytes on the subject of technology, the products with technical innovations must provide intuitividad and simplicity”.
Does he want to know which products and services easy to use and of recent technology does it have today at his disposal, which they could turn in the common and current amenities of the future?
• The Commission Electrotécnica Internacional (International Electrotechnical Commission) is carrying out initiatives to facilitate that the devices domestic appliances and of health and physical conditioning they could
to "speak" with the audio-visual teams and the computers. In the future, the TV set might say to him when there are ready the clothes that stopped in the washer. An innovation that is already used in Japan, where domestic appliances such Feminity de Toshiba like fridges and washers, they are linked to the Internet and are controlled from the TV set, the computer or the cell phone.
• ListPro processes lists of market in a computer and/or personal digital assistant (PDA), the products addition allows to the users to need to acquire, and “to erase them” of the list when they are bought, as it is done by the conventional lists.
• The system ioDIGITAL of Moen incorporates easily the technology in the bath, allowing him to mark and support the temperature and the water flow in his shower exactly electronic, and with a programming as simple as to presort broadcasting stations in the radio of his motorcar. Even by means of an optional remote control it is possible to activate his shower or ideal bath even from 30 distance feet, or while it is put to bed comfortably in the bed.
The forms in which the rooms are used also are changing, thanks to the increasing presence of the technology in the hearth.
• The Hispanics who use Internet in the United States are “specialists in means”, since they consume and adopt means and technology at a level higher than that of the general population, according to a new study announced by Yahoo! TV world and Experian Simmons Research.
• Often, the American Hispanics adopt and use the electronic devices and his characteristics very much before the population in general. For example, 79 per cent of the Hispanics possess digital cameras, compared to 53 per cent of the population in general. Also, 90 per cent of the Hispanics have cell phones, in contrast to 70 per cent of the general population; and 66 per cent use his cell phones to take pictures, versus 28 per cent of the population in his set.
| June: National month of the Property of Housing |
| I acted as informed |
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Bertha Sáenz
Today, with so many difficulties on the housing market, it is very important more than never that the proprietors of a house and the future buyers take decisions informed about the investment in property of the housing.
For that reason, Housing Counseling Services Inc. (HCS) realizes a series of titled seminars: "I bought, arranged and do not lose his house,” a series of three workshops that were helping him to act as informed like proprietor of a house, to renew or to rehabilitate it, and like avoiding to lose his hearth by means of the mortgage sequestration.
The first seminar is an orientation of buy of housing: If he is going to buy a house, you have probably many questions: How much money needed to have saved? How do I choose a loan, a real property reagent, and to a house inspector? How can I take advantage of mortgages and of the buyable advantages of tax for the housing proprietors for the first time? Find answers to all these questions in this workshop the June 9 of 6:00pm-8:00 pm.
The second one, is on “Rehabilitation and renewal of housing: there be informed of how a contractor to choose and to supervise his project under the local laws and the protection of the safety from potential suits, this workshop is realized on June 16 16 from 11:00am-1:00pm.
and the third seminar will be a Clinic of prevention of mortgage sequestration: one inform that to do if you are slowed down in his mortgage or in the danger of losing his hearth in a mortgage execution, I looked for help immediately. This clinic will provide the impartial information and the advice of an approved not lucrative agency of HUD to help him to understand which his real options are to avoid execution of a mortgage. On June 23 from: 6:00 p.m.-8:00 pm
| Decorate correctly |
| Combine flowers and plants to decorate |
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The good place of the furniture, the coloring of the walls and the circumstantial aggregations in an ambience, they need a fundamental element to stop complementing a comfortable space: the flowers and the plants that must be chosen according to the personal taste, but with certain essentials they help him to be able to decorate it correctly.
To obtain the comfort of an ambience depends on two things principally: the objects and the colors that get together.
For the side of the furniture, the wood is always a material that contributes the only warmth, and for the side of the colors, the plants and the flowers are elements that stop rounding this effect of serviceability that is chased in the decoration.
One of the more effective resources of setting, is the flowers laying in a center of table. But bear in mind, the coloring and aroma that can be generated, also it is adapted to locate different type of plants.
There is advised then, to change the scenery with a vegetation that shows different types of green and color touches with interior flowers in combination. For it, it is important to select plants that need few lighting or adapted for the type of light that has the ambience.
The yellow or red flowers generate a movement climate with rubbings of excitement and youth, the hoar-frost on the other hand, generate romanticism and somehow they install certain visual peace. The white flowers give light and enlarge the corner where they are located. If you have a slightly dark corner, place white flowers.
The flowers of blue tones are seen very well with the green ones, and the tones violets believe a good contrast with the golden and yellow ones.
Mix the colors of the flowers to realize this way a harmonious branch, or do a branch with a predominant tone and add some flowers of another color to give him variety. If he wants that his vase shines, puts in him simple flowers.
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