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  How can I make my house more environmentally friendly? Making your home a green home has now become an important part in the home-building process, doing your part to protect the environment once meant separating paper from plastic in your recycling bin and buying organic greens that you carried home in a reusable tote. But these days, there is a lot more you can do to create a green and healthy home. Let’s know more about how you can make a green home: A green home uses solar energy to do many chores, such as solar panels for electricity solar heaters for water and solar cookers for kitchens, which are a few eco-friendly options. Incorporating solar into your home is a great way to make your home greener by reducing your carbon footprint and completely slashing your utility bill. Photovoltaic solar panels are getting cheaper and more efficient. Choose Native Plants : By adding native plants and trees to your landscape, you allow less water to be used for irrigation.  If y...

  What are examples of insulation? When insulating your home, you can choose from many types of insulation.   Proper insulation protects a home from exterior cold, heat and sound. Properly insulating your home not only reduces heating and cooling costs,   but also improves comfort. Insulation saves your electricity and also creates a cozy environment in your home.    There are four type of insulation in a home. First, window insulation: cold from outside mostly enters a home through windows and doors. To prevent this, you can install double glass windows with a rubber gasket in it. Secondly, floor insulation: By installing a layer of wooden flooring/ laminate flooring/ cork-based flooring. You can prevent your home from cold entering through the ground. Third, walls and roof insulation: Create air pockets in the walls while building it or use AAC blocks as a building material which will provides insulation from harsh sunlight. Apply light color paints on ...

  How can I hide my water pipes? Concealing the pipes and the wires of your home into the wall keeps the look and finish of your home intact. Let’s understand the right way to conceal the piping in the walls of your home. First, mark the tracks of the pipe outlets, such as tap, showers and wash-basin onto your wall with spirit level. Ensure that the drinking- water pipe and drainage pipe do not overlap. Then cut the marked area with the help of a dish blade. See to it that depth should be 4-6 mm more than the thickness of the pipes. Ensure that you don’t cut any column or beam of your home in the process. Use a spade to make grooves in the marked area. If the wall is a load-bearing wall make sure to not shatter the whole marked area in one go. Fit the pipes in the grooves with the help of nails fill with the gap between the pipes and the wall with cement and sand mortar and use a steel mesh to avoid cracks in the wall. Place the mesh on the groove and fix it with the help of nails ...