How we built stairs at our house
To ensure complete privacy, we can’t add the stairs inside our living room. So we gave our staircase its own 7 ft wide section.
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Construction, Design, Finishing
Construction
A list of blog posts related to house construction. A complete journey from land to a dream house. We invite you to come along.
Construction, Finishing
Marble Floor Tiles in Porch – Update
This week, we did a lot of minor updates in floor tiles, false ceilings, cement plastering etc, and also installed marble floor tiles in Porch area.
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Construction, Design, Grey Structure
Finishing Cement Plastering and Plumbing – Construction Update 11
Our estimate is that it will take about a week to finish plastering the outer walls. After that we’ll finalize the plumbing.
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Construction, Design, Grey Structure
Cement Plastering – Construction Update 10
The construction of water tank is complete, we’ll let it dry and test it in a few days for any leaks or cracks. In the meantime, we can start working on our next task, i.e. cement plastering.
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Construction, Grey Structure
Mumty Room, Parapet and Water Tank – Construction Update 9
The construction we need to do on our second floor will be a Mumty room, Parapet (walls) and a Water Storage tank.
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Construction, Design, Grey Structure
Significane of OTS (Open to sky) in a house plan
Open To Sky (OTS) is an area in a house plan, which directly opens to the sky and it is covered by fiber glass or some other translucent material.
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Construction, Grey Structure
Septic Tank – What you should know!
One end of the rectangular septic tank has an inlet pipe, which brings all the sewage, and the other end has a pipe which connects to sewage system.
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Construction, Grey Structure
Electrical Wiring and Plumbing – Construction Update 8
While the shuttering is still on, we’ll keep on watering the concrete for the next two weeks. In the meantime, we’ll focus on electrical wiring of the rooms, and plumbing.
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Construction, Grey Structure
Completion of First Floor – Construction Update 7
In our design, floor plan of first floor is almost identical to the ground floor. So, the construction work is much faster then before.
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Construction, Grey Structure, Plot
Sunk Slab (also: Sunken Slab) and First Floor walls – Construction Update 6
Sunk Slab is cast a bit deeper then the normal floor. This way the floor height is not increased and you get a plain consistent floor throughout the house.
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