
Interior designers have many tools at their disposal when it comes to creating interior design schemes. One of these tools, however, is quite often overlooked as people don’t realize the potential that it has to transform a space. This tool is lighting and it has the power to make or break an interior scheme. Lighting can make a house into a home and will allow the per...
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Scraping off your old, flaking paint is essential to helping you get a long-lasting paint job. Don’t ever skip this step! Leaving old paint on your walls will make your new coat of paint flake faster. Use sandpaper to soften the rough edges of the wall to avoid having thin, vulnerable areas in the new layer of paint.
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There are different materials that can be used during the walling of a structure in Kenya. Some of the available materials with the available labour skill set include;
1. Stones
Naturally occurring stones are the most popularly used materials in the Kenyan market for construction purposes. They are usually mined from stone quarries with the m...
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A construction project is a major investment which can give you sleepless nights if you end up with the wrong contractor.
In an industry teeming with many contractors, all exhibiting different levels of experience and expertise, it can be tasking for an investor to choose the right contractor for their project. Here are five steps to choosing and hiring a great contr...
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Wazimart, a digital construction directory, announced that a larger company called Construction Revolution Market has bought it off effective immediately to mirror the company’s intention to tap into the global market to make construction business convenient for companies and customers.
“Having been the preferred construction directory for ...
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Today, a panel on the wall with a beautiful view of the sea is, of course, beautiful, but nothing more. The modern buyer demands more, therefore manufacturers by means of innovative technologies have tried to recreate such clothes which simply immerse in an illusion of improbable and very realistic beauty.
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Mabati, or iron sheets in English, are a basic requirement for every construction project. The roofing sheets are a type of external covering for the roofs and walls of different buildings and structures. As the name suggests, they are basically installed to protect the top of the building from various forces of nature across all seasons. The sheets must have some basic prop...
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Waterproofing is the process of making an object or structure waterproof or water-resistant so that it remains relatively unaffected by water or resisting the ingress of water under specified conditions. Such items may be used in wet environments or underwater to specified depths. In buildings using earth sheltering, a potential problem is too much humidity, so Read more...
With the recent rains, who wants to stay in the dark? I bet no one does
The phrase backup power is used often when discussing generator and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), but each system performs different tasks. The facility’s generator provides an emergency or alternate source of power during an incoming power event. On the other hand, the UPS provides...
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