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Air Quality - Home Additions
Plan your home addition, room addition or house addition to offset the potential health effects from indoor air pollution in order to relieve potential health problems associated with allergies and asthma.
Beams & Girders
Most home additions will require the use of a beam or girder. A girder is a main beam that extends across a span in order to support joists or rafters that otherwise would be unable to reach across the open expanse. In home construction the girder is usually installed from one side of the foundation to the other side of the foundation.
Building Permits
Most states, provinces and local municipalities have bylaws that require homeowners, or contractors working on behalf of a homeowner to obtain permits for many building and remodeling projects. A home addition, room addition or house addition because it usually includes structural work, as well as electrical, as a general statement, require a building permit.
Concrete Blocks
If you are looking for a construction material for your home addition, house addition or room addition that is economical, does not burn, reduces the transmission of sound, is termite proof and will never rust or rot then you should consider the use of concrete blocks.
Contractor - Home Addition
Whether you are looking for a general contractor or a specific trade to help you with your home addition project, determining who you should contract can be a very frustrating experience. Reference checks are a critical part of the exercise. Adding an addition on your home is an expensive exercise, and if you are not a diy home handyman - it is important that you choose your contractor wisely.
Design Software
3D CAD software, allows the homeowner to see the completed home addition, house addition or room addition before work before any work starts. Review all of your options!
Electrical Wiring
If you are planning on adding a home addition, house addition or room addition consider your electrical service before you start construction.
Flooring
Ever home addition, room addition or house addtion requires flooring of some type. This section provides you with information on hardwood flooring, laminate flooring, ceramic & porcelain tile flooring, marble, granite & limestone flooring, installation and restoration; carpet fibers and much more.
Foundations
How to build the foundation for your home additon, room additon or house,or house addition.
Foundations - 2
This sections describes problems that are commonly encountered when constructing home addition foundations, there causes and solutions.
Gutter Installation
A home addition, house addition or room addition often requires the installation of rain gutters or eaves trough as it is sometimes called is not a complex project although the logistics may make the project difficult to complete.
Heating - Radiant Electric - Home Addition
Heating - Radiant Hydronic - Home Addition
There are so many beautiful flooring materials that can be used for a home addition, house addition or room addition, yet most have a major drawback. They are cool and sometimes very cold to the touch. Before you commit to the design of your home addition, room addition or house addition consider the different flooring materials and whether you should install radiant under floor heating.
Hot Water - Home Addition
On demand or tankless hot water systems have been in use in Europe and Asia for over 40 years, although the vast majority have been fueled by natural gas or propane and were installed in locations within the home that required hot water, primarily kitchens and bathrooms, as they did not use a central hot water tank for an entire home. Tankless water heaters have a number of advantages. But installing one as part of your home addition, room additon or house addition can become expensive, especially if your current electrical service cannot delivery the necessary power.
Paneling
Paneling Installation
Paneling has come along way since it was first introduced in the early 60's. Where paneling was once considered to be the inexpensive way to finish walls in a basement, recent improvements in quality and additions to design have made paneling available in high quality hardwoods, which may be the perfect wall covering for your home addition, room addition or house addition.
Positioning Receptacles & Switches
If you are adding a room addition, home addition or house addition it will involve the addition of receptacles and / or switches you should consider their height and location.
Receptacle Positions In Living Areas
Your home addition, room addition or house addition will fall under the National Electrical Code (NEC). The NEC provides maximum distances from walls and other obstructions and between individual receptacles. This is called the 6 / 12 rule.
Roofing
Your home addition or house addition will require a roof. Learn about the different roof styles and materials; slate, metal, asphalt shingle, wood shingle, clay, ceramic, tile. Includes sections on rafters and trusses. Cathedral ceilings, install gutters, prevent ice dams and calculate attic ventilation.
Sidings & Veneers
Any home addition, room addition or house addition will require some sort of finish on the exterior walls. In North America, 99.9% of all homes have exterior siding or veneer attached to the support structure in order to protect the home from the elements. Although most people think of sidings and veneers as being long narrow sheets of material, materials such as brick an stucco are also sidings and veneers.
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Siding Terminology
Soffit & Fascia Installation
Vinyl Siding Installation
Stud Wall & Partition Construction
Constructing the walls and partitions for your home addition, room addition or house addition is not a difficult project and most home handymen who are comfortable working with lumber and have some knowledge of plumb, level & square are quite capable of handling this type of project.
Sub-Panel Installation
If you require a substantial number of electrical circuits for your home addition, room addition or house addition an electrical sub-panel may be an economical method of construction. An electrical sub-panel provides you with additional electrical circuits. It does not change the amount of power available to the home.
Window Decor For Additions Construction
If you are contemplating the design of a home additon, room additon or house addition one item that is often overlooked is how you will finish the windows on the interior.