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| Winter repairs |
| Identify leaks and water accumulation |
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Although many experts center the reviews of the house in the autumn and the spring (like preparation to the two most extreme stations of the year) the current period is propitious to prepare some risk potentials in his housing.
" During the raining season it is convenient to make sure that is not accumulating water in the cellar or the base of the housing", says David Lupberger, expert in progress of the hearth.
Lupberger advises that to be looked any indication of filtration or water accumulation, the elements that more can spoil the houses.
" It is a good moment to observe if there are sheets or objects plugging the sewer pipes and channels of the roof", says Lupberger, remembering that the situation of the tiles, ideally, should be had checked in the autumn before the rains or the snowfalls began.
But the expert points out that, due to the descent in the construction and also in the reshapings, this might be a good moment for any hanging repair, included the finished renewal of the roof.
" The contractors have little work these days, what it will make easier to find good prices and immediate payment by cash for any arrangement that needs the intervention of a professional", mentions Lupberger.
Carlos Gutiérrez, independent contractor for all kinds of reshapings and repairs of the housing, mentions that the beginning of the year is also a good moment to identify what arrangements or changes are going to be done in the house.
" Help very much to have a list with dates and dear budgets", says Gutiérrez, mentioning that it is necessary to give priority to the problems in way.
" To ignore a small leak or an air extractor that seems jammed can turn into a costly repair a small arrangement that in many cases the proprietor can do", says Gutiérrez.
Lupberger mentions that the winter is also the station in which it must happen if a few rooms of the house are greatly colder than others.
" This is usually an indication of bad isolation of doors or windows", says the expert, mentioning that in most cases it is something that the proper proprietor can remedy and of very economic form with tape sellante.
The expert advises also to empty completely the water heater.
" It is convenient to do it when it is full of warm water, at least once a year, because with it there are eliminated the sediments that can cause oxidation", says Lupberger.
Gutiérrez indicates that the beginning of the year is a good moment to do a list of all the repairs and reshapings that glide to be carried out, putting a tentative date to them.
" One would like to be repairing the air conditioning in the months of any more heat, neither do not even do not even to paint the exterior of the housing when it rains", says Gutiérrez.
| The moisture believe fungi and the putrefaction of the wood |
| Protect his house with a fan for bath |
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The bathroom produces most of the moisture in his hearth. This is obvious for any person who has gone out of a shower of warm water to find the mirror steamed up by the steam. This condensation does not limit itself to the mirror where it can be seen easily. The moisture becomes condensed in every surface of his bathroom, it includes the walls, roofs and other bath accessories.
If it is not liberated somehow, this moisture can accumulate and hurt to the bath and you even divide others of his house. Deformed doors and the peeled painting would have to be his minor worries in damages terms. The moisture also can stick and be evident in the apartments, walls and roofs, giving place to fungi, what it takes to the putrefaction of the wood. The rotten wood can cause big damages to the structure of support of his hearth and costly repairs are needed.
The norms established by the Institute De Ventilation Of Hearths in the E.E.U.U recommend to use the fans I bathe during 20 minutes after using the bath, especially after the shower. His house is probably the biggest investment that you do, a good ventilation system for the bath will help him to protect this investment.
A hearth with ventilation system, including a leakage fan in the bath, also they will help to protect his family of volatile organic compounds (COV). The studies have demonstrated that the long-term exhibition can cause diverse complications to atmospheric pollutants as this one for the health.
The ventilation Institute of AND E.U:U he recommends that a fan of leakage of a bathroom must deliver a minimum of eight air changes per hour.
Since the Institute of Ventilation of Hearths recommends also the fan of the bathroom to stay working at least 20 minutes after using the bath, it is possible that he wants to install a switch temporizador with his unit of fan of leakage.
To clean the exterior of his fan when it realizes the habitual cleanliness of his bath will support the covering being seen well, but sometimes a deeper cleanliness is necessary. Two times a year, you must clean the unit thoroughly to avoid the dust accumulation in the engine and to support the efficient functioning of the fan of leakage of his bathroom. Before the beginning of his half-yearly cleanliness, insure of cutting the energy flow to clean the interior of the unit of ventilation.
| If it has a wallpaper with texture, change the aspect to him painting it |
| Simple texture for the walls |
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With wallpaper in relief he will be able to add a theatrical touch to any room Then, so that it should highlight the design, should try to put into practice a skill of decorative painting that emphasizes the texture.
How to do it
• The surfaces with textures give warmth to a room and hide the imperfection of the walls.
• To achieve this elegant and ancient aspect simultaneously, we place a wallpaper with relief in two top thirds of the wall. A narrow shelf will smooth the transition between the wall with texture and the smooth part; nevertheless, the frames can achieve the same effect.
• To heighten the texture, there was used a skill of painting that darkens the fund of the design and illuminates the part with relief.
• To achieve this result, first it is necessary to cover or place tape on the base of the frame and the apartment.
• It does in wallpaper with a solid color.
• Then, with a gum brush it eliminates part of the painting in the places with relief.
Last advices he practises in small parts of the wallpaper up to dominating the soft necessary touch to achieve the result that you wish.
| Winter climate they cause thousands of dollars of losses every year |
| Prepare later costly damages |
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(I.I.I).
The winter thunderstorms can do disasters in his house and they are responsible for a big percentage of the claims of owners' insurances of housings a year, for what Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I). he warns of the need to have his house determined for the winter months.
The winter thunderstorms compiled 7,8 per cent of the catastrophic losses between the year 1986 and 2005, with an average of more than billion dollars in losses every year of this period. The ravages for water and freezing produced 17 per cent of all the claims of insurances of housing, while the damages caused by wind and hail added 50 per cent of these claims. The average cost of a claim for damages caused by water and freezing is of $ 5.095, according to statistics of the I.I.I.
Nevertheless, a lot of these damages related to the winter can get ready in spite of only implementing a few simple precautions in his house against the snow, cold or winds.
“ The first one of the steps is that you have insurances coverage sufficient both for his house and for his belongings. “The standard insurance policy of owners' insurances of housing covers accidents related to the climate, like rupture of tubes, structures collapse due to the weight of the ice or snow, as well as losses related to fires (more frequent when chimneys are used)”, there affirmed Jeanne M. Salvatore, vice-president of matters for the consumer and spokesman of the I.I.I.
For what the I.I.I. offers the following recommendations:
For the location of the house
• Clean the channels of sewer pipe of the roof. Remove sheets and other piled up garbage that could brake the sewer pipe of the melted snow.
• Install protective grills in the sewer pipe channels.
• Prune the trees near to his house.
• Seal the cracks and holes in the external walls of his house as well as in the bases.
For the interior of his house
• Support the moderate house.
• Add more material insulator in the attic, the cellar or in the low part of his housing if this one is on props.
• Make sure that his heating system receives maintenance service.
• Check the tubes. Look and repair any split or break that allows the pipes to lose water and it covers with thermal insulating tape the pipes exhibited outdoors.
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