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Healthy House Light House is a typical reflection of the character of its owner. Similar to the way we dress, how we are managing the home also is a reflection of how our character as owner of the house. But like anything else our personality, we certainly hope to have a beautiful home, clean, and healthy. But less well maintained mansion instead become a boomerang for the owner. The first and foremost our Terms comfortable staying at home is the cleanliness and health, (in addition to already completed his mortgage)

Well, here are some simple tips to create a healthy home, clean, and comfortable.

Kitchen
Get used to wash dishes in the kitchen. The sooner you do, then you maintain the cleanliness of the kitchen load will become lighter. Piles of dirty dishes in the kitchen will make you more reluctant to touch it. In addition, the kitchen is usually damp, bacteria will easily and fastest growing in the rest of the food on your dishes.

Provide adequate ventilation and lighting for your kitchen. Provide a minimum of two bins, one for organic waste, and one for non-organic waste. In the first place is kitchen and easiest way for you to participate to keep this earth. Nothing is more fun when I saw a kitchen that is always in a clean condition.

Bathroom
Ventilation is still a key element to make your bathroom comfortable. Do not let the dark and humid condition. Of course you do not want to see your bathroom walls moldy. Brush and clean the bathroom floor of your bath water regularly so that you are kept clean.

In addition, also great to put ornamental plants in the bathroom, your bathroom becomes so fresh and beautiful. Do not forget to put the perfume and anti-bacterial camphor. Choose the color of bright colors, like green, blue, or pink, for the color of the floor and walls.

Bedroom
You believe that the ‘mattress’ is a dangerous place? You have to believe this, bacteria can easily multiply there. Try changing, washing, and drying the sheets and pillowcases often as possible. Choose a material that absorbs sweat and does not easily hairy. The mattress is also very necessary to dry as often as you can. Make sure your bedroom clean and tidy, because that’s where most of the time you spend sleeping. If your bedroom is dirty, you are likely to be even greater pain.

Middle chamber
The middle room is usually used as a family room. There is usually a member of your family spend time together. Quite often also the living room together with dining room. Because activity in this space involves the whole family, it is likely to be a sizable gross. That means you should give extra attention to this one room, immediately trim items scattered about, make sure the cable cleanly, especially if you have small children.

To maintain the health of space, it is suggested you place a small bamboo tree in this space. In addition to reasons of beauty and beauty, bamboo is believed to be a filter of formaldehyde (a chemical found in many of the wooden furniture) and benzene (found in the ink, plastic, or rubber material) that are harmful to your family. To be more beautiful, you can add lilies, which can also eliminate trichlorethylene (chemical substances contained in the paintings and paints are harmful to the respiratory)

In doing repairs on the damaged concrete and want to repair, usually done in several ways as below:
1. Grouting
2. Epoxy
3. Bonding Agent
4. Repair
5. Shotcrete

Here is an explanation of the properties, uses, and how to make the concrete repair material that is generally done.

1. Grouting
The properties of Grouting:
- Consists of one component
- Workability and high strength
- Hold the load impact and moving loads
- No shrinkage and segregation
- Economical

Used in:
- Stand the machine foundation
- Charging anchor
- Improvements in the porous concrete
- Bearing pads

How to use Grouting:
- Every 1 m3 requires 2000 kg
- The concrete surface is cleaned of dirt (dust, oil etc)
- Mix the grout material and water and stirred
- The part that will grouted prepared with a good formwork
- Apply the grout material in a way that will be poured on the grouted
- Sealing the formwork of the possibility of leaks Read more »

For some people, cleaning job can be a fun job. However, many people do not like it because it bothered, tired and time consuming. Do not worry, for you are the lazy, comfortable home you can still get, too! Peek into the trick!

DAILY
• Opening the windows to facilitate air circulation and reduce the amount of dust.
• Clean the surface of the table, like a coffee table, dining table, or kitchen. Use a clean cloth dampened with water or cleaning solution.
• patting the surface of the mattress, pillow, or a sofa. Useful for cleaning dirt and also makes the surface of the sofa, cushion, or mattress back into its original shape and puffy.
• Sweeping the room. Do it at least once a day.

WEEKLY
• Clean the bathroom. The bathrooms are clean and fragrant bath can make the atmosphere becomes more comfortable. For that, clean the bathtub, bathtub, bathroom floor, sink, and toilet seats.
• Changing towels, sheets, pillowcases, and bolsters. Wash using hot water temperature of 60 ° C, for all the dirt on the towels, sheets, pillowcases, and bolster disappeared without a trace.
• Empty the trash that was in the bathroom.
• Wipe the door and the handle. Use warm soapy water or special cleaning solutions.
• Wipe the dust on the surface of the cabinet that is rarely touched or which is located on high ground.
• Suck carpet using a vacuum cleaner. Apply also to the sidelines of the couch. To be effective, use a vacuum cleaner with a small tip.
• If you are made of parquet floors, wipe with a special cleaning agent, to keep it shiny.

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Something that does not seem dangerous usually tend to be ignored. This also applies to your home remodelling project. You certainly will be motivated to do renovations if you see large disturbances that may jeopardize your home. It’s not a bad thing. However, if examined further, there are little things that actually affect the aesthetic value of the house that we live in, one of which is hair cracks in the wall.

Hair cracks are cracks caused by non-structural factors and usually in the form of fine cracks that form curved lines. There are 2 main causes of non-structural cracks like this, such as material shrinkage and expansion differences in relation to temperature, and composition of materials that are less precise.

When building the wall, there are several alternative materials that can be used, such as red brick, brick, brick light and the different types of mortar or plaster. These materials have different shrinkage expansion value each other. When the temperature around the building changed, there are some of the material will experience a more rapid shrinkage while there are other materials that have not undergone a change. When this happens, between the two materials or layers of conflict of movement, it is this that triggered the cracks on the wall. Read more »

Floor of the house looks so beautiful and attractive, floor tiles need to be given such coatings. Just by installing ceramic with good and true, will make the floor look more nice views. Actually, to install tiles on the floor is not difficult. However, if the area to be coated ceramic area, it’s worth asking for help builder.

Although the quality of ceramics that we use good, if one put ceramics, will cause problems later on. Therefore, there are tips you should look in installing ceramic:
Before installing the tiles on the floor, which will be fitted with ceramic surfaces must be clean of dirt and dry. This is important for the future of ceramic tape with a well on the stand. It’s good ceramic soaked in water for about 2-4 hours before being installed.
Measure the floor area that will be fitted with ceramic, and divide the floor area with an area of ceramics. This way you can get the required amount of ceramics. But do not forget to buy a few extra tiles in case there are broken tiles later.
Use a good quality cement, so that in later days did not show problems such as popping or cracking in ceramics. You can use instant cement, and besides saving time for live mixing cement with water, the special cement also glue the tiles better. To flat it, use the special tool to get maximum results.
If installing ceramic, make sure the floor surface is flat or level with the water pass. Read more »