In kitchen renovation, the goal is often to expand, update, or rearrange the space for better functionality. Many homeowners also desire to install the latest appliances, spacious cabinets, bright lighting, and quality plumbing. All of these components create a challenging renovation project; the complexity of kitchens requires much planning and product knowledge, not to mention finding the right contractors and making a budget. Our Renovco expert members brought together their experiences and advice to identify the top five risks of the kitchen renovation.

Nailing the design is crucial to the success of your project as the kitchen is the hub of a variety of activities. From making meals to hosting family gatherings, kitchens should be designed around how you will use them. Forming a layout that poorly organizes the space and chooses options that are more pretty than usable will make for a kitchen that is awkward to move around in and inefficient.

It is always worthwhile to work out an accurate budget for any renovation, but it is even more vital in kitchen renovation. There are a lot of variables and components to keep up with during the kitchen renovation, and you can easily overspend if you lose track of things. You can also pay too much for materials and labor if you do not have experience with remodels. Alternatively, going cheap on appliances is not always the best plan—you get what you pay for in most cases, and in the end, you spend more on repairs or replacements. The same goes for items that have a higher lifecycle cost. It may be cheaper upfront, but an inefficient item will cost more down the road. Consulting an expert who can tell you about the quality and total costs of your products can help you determine which options will be the most cost-effective.

If renovation or kitchen design is not your profession, you run the risk of missing some pretty major issues that can bite you down the road. Kitchen cabinets are just one example. In our experience, we have learned that it is worthwhile to buy the highest-quality cabinets you can afford. They are the workhorse of your kitchen and can last a long time if chosen wisely. And, what’s pretty on the front isn’t always pretty behind the door. Did you know some ranges require deeper than standard cabinets left and right of the range to hide the sides of the appliance? There are hundreds of little details learned through experience that can make or break your remodel.

Kitchen renovations are hefty projects, and it is difficult to predict how long yours should take if you are unfamiliar with the process. Making sure a kitchen renovation project goes smoothly means getting all the necessary materials before you start, and coordinating yours and your contractor’s schedules. Miscommunications, misplaced materials or forgotten items can delay your project and make your kitchen unusable for quite some time.

When you are demolishing parts of your kitchen and moving to plumb around, you always run the risk of damaging electrical lines and pipes. Be sure to consult a plumbing and electrical expert before moving or modifying your space to avoid this issue. Electrical design is more than meets the eye, especially when it comes to the kitchen. If you are adding multiple appliances and new lighting, you may not have enough electrical outlets or appropriate wiring to service them. You may need to have your underlying electrical plan completely reconfigured by an electrical professional; otherwise, you may overload your outlets.

You may want to think about purchasing yourself a dishwasher when you remodel your kitchen if you don’t already have one. Even if all of your kitchen renovations have been planned and you would like a dishwasher, you still should be able to have one.

The most common question asked about dishwashers and remodeling is how it is possible, especially after a remodeling plan has already been developed.

In case you aren’t already aware; there are a number of benefits to owning a dishwasher. One of those benefits is saved time, especially if you have a large family. The average family goes through at least three different sets of dishes each day; one for breakfast, one for lunch, and one for dinner.

What is nice about dishwashers is that you just load them, turn them on, and return back to whatever you were doing before. In most cases, you will find that it takes less than five minutes to get a dishwasher loaded and running.

You can find traditional white dishwashers, black dishwashers, black and white dishwashers, silver, as well as stainless steel dishwashers. Essentially, this means that you can find a dishwasher to match the rest of your kitchen, even after the remodeling has occurred.

In fact, purchasing a dishwasher when you purchase your other kitchen remodeling supplies is a great way to ensure that everything matches.

Fortunately, all of these potential issues can be solved by hiring a renovation professional that has a proven and tested process. For your various renovation needs, Renovco is the best solution. We can help you to renovate your kitchen. We work with quality, also we are fast and very economical. Call us at 613-727-7070 or book an appointment at info@renovco.com.

Few homeowners really bother about security until something happens to their
house or a neighbour.
It’s our “don’t fix it if ain’t broken” attitude that gives the burglar’s an
upper hand. However there are many simple basic things we can know to make our
home safer and give a fighting face.

Assess your home security need

Planning and design a full proof security system starts with assessing your
security needs. The first basic thing to start with is a survey of the home
premise, both inside and outside including physical home objects and their
position within the premises.  Risk
factors and loss potential are scrutinized as these greatly influence how far
we would like to secure our homes and gardens keeping in mind the budget. More
the risk and valuable the objects, greater planning and security considerations
are to be made for particular part of the property.

Types of Home Security

Next comes considering four golden types on which any security system
planning is considered;

Time or barrier security: TIME
is a biggest enemy of any burglar. The more time it takes to break into a home,
the more discouraged a burglar will become. This makes time or barrier security
the simplest and must have security type for any home. Simple home security
devices such as locks on doors (here deadbolts are worth looking), window bars,
security gates, security film, security grilles 
that are visible from the exterior of the house will not only act as a
deterrent but slow down an intruder should they decide to try to enter. For
example, security bars are very useful for protecting basement windows as they
provide visual deterrence as well as providing barrier security. However we
have to understand here that locks and other barrier security serve primarily
to prevent entry by the amateur and to slow or deter the professional burglars

Lighting security:  Lights
are sweet curse for any burglars since good security lighting is one of the
greatest deterrents to crime. Many
burglars prefer the cover of darkness and by keeping your property well lit at
night, you take away their opportunity to strike. When using light as a type of
security, make sure darker areas like back doors and windows, shrubbery,
walkways and entrances to your garage and basement are well illuminated. Nowadays motion detection
lighting which lights on sensing any motion are best since they save on energy
and provide on demand security lighting needs. For more information on how
lights can provide a mean to secure your homes and gardens, please read our Outdoor
Lights comes to secure our Homes and Gardens article, http://www.foryourhome.co.uk/outdoor-lights-comes-to-secure-our-homes-and-gardens/articles/40.html

Sound security: SOUND ORNOISE is also the enemy of the burglar. One can get huge
range of home security alarms activated by doors or windows opening or by
motion. If you are pet lovers then a dog is one of the trusted and lovely sound
security one can get. Not because it’s vicious, it need not even be seen, but
it has to be heard. Nowadays people can even get a recorded dog bark and will
scare most burglars away.

Surveillance security: BIG BROTHER is watching you. No body
likes being watched and not when one is illegally entering a property. Surveillance
security like, Close circuit camera TV (CCTV) are the latest techno way of
securing our homes and gardens. However we have to understand here is that most
of the security systems just helps us to identify the culprit if no body is
home and the crime has taken place There are also alarm guarded security
cameras whereas some cameras can be linked to internet for you to watch from
where ever you are present or to a security company that will send help
immediately. To find the right Surveillance security system, you can read our Quick
Guide in Selecting the right CCTV Security System article, http://www.foryourhome.co.uk/quick-guide-in-selecting-the-right-cctv-security-system/articles/37.html

Last but not the least

Almost all police stations have alocal
crime reduction officer who will happily give you advice over the phone or may
visit your home if they think it is necessary.

One of the most effective and inexpensive ways to secure your home at the
property line is to turn on senses of your neighborhood. Community policing
programs, like ‘come and be one’, have shown great success in reducing property
crime around the world.

As risk and value of the objects inside the property increases the security
system should be layered so that thieves are forced to spend valuable time
after entering the premises but before penetrating the barrier security to get
to the reward.

Avoid regular routines that make it obvious you are away from home at
specific times of the day or night. This may be bit inconvenient, but try to be
flexible in your routines of departure and arrival when possible

Whenever you are on vacations, check all the security systems/items are functioning
and also arrange for neighbor to watch house. Plus have your mail and newspaper
delivery stopped and arrange to have your yard maintained which will help to
keep your home a live in like look.

Planning and designing an effective security system is as much as an art
then logic, but more than anything else involves common sense and while there
is temptation to rely on high technology, try to keep it simple. The best
security system gives equal importance to all the four type of security with
the barrier one being the leading one and then backed by other three types
wherever needed

Part of the fun of owning a home is experimenting with keeping your home a
safe and better place to live in this unpredictable unsafe world. While you’re
making your home as attractive as you can to your friends and neighbors, you
can make it equally unattractive to intruders. We at For your home hope these
information and suggestions on how to secure your homes and gardens will help to
reduce the ruining of your dream home.  

You can also read this article in our news and article section at;

http://www.foryourhome.co.uk/quick-guide-on-securing-your-home-and-gardens/articles/41.html

Some of my proposal lessons learned that I began to take for granted include Adapt the process to serve you – do not be slave to the process, Always carefully read everything that’s related to your proposal, Triple-check everything. Do not trust what you cannot see.

I am in foggy San Jose in Silicon Valley, teaching a course for Stevens at NASA Ames. It is an intense, inquisitive, and exceedingly bright group of students. Some of their questions got me to remember some truths in the proposal profession that I began to take for granted – so I am sharing them with you after quickly jotting them down at 4 am (I am still on the East Coast time). Here are some of my proposal lessons learned:

1.       Adapt the process to serve you – do not be slave to the process. Every proposal is unique in duration, events that take place during the scheduled proposal time, quality, and availability of proposal resources, and so on. If you need to cancel a review or two because they would be meaningless or would take too much time, do. But don’t cancel all of them – have at least one. And, make sure you stay out of trouble – we are all fallible and human and make mistakes – if you involve your management in a review early, you can prevent some mistakes or share the responsibility.

2.       Always carefully read everything that’s related to your proposal: the whole RFP with all its appendices; the documents that fly around such as templates, background, and boilerplate; and especially draft sections. You can course-correct earlier.

3.       Triple-check everything. It means after you have read the final copies, made sure you have included everything you need to include, you have checked compliance, do it again, even if it feels unnecessary. You will be shocked and grateful more often than you can imagine.

4.       Do not trust what you cannot see: if you are told section is in progress, you need to see the section in progress. If you haven’t seen it, it does not exist. Procrastination has deep roots – and the most professional and trustworthy of people suffer from it – if you don’t believe me, check out proposal procrastination flowchart.

5.       Do not back yourself into the corner with your schedule. It does not matter how tight it may be – always leave a contingency. Murphy lives inside printers, PDF generators, email transmission speed, and other accouterments of the final days or hours of proposal delivery. Plan to be early so that you are on time. If you plan to be on time, you may be late.

However, the
choice of the kitchen style is only one of the features of the design of a
kitchen, a work that includes many steps and requires the help of specialized
professional people. Since a kitchen is composed of many household appliances,
when you design this space of your house there are many factors that you must
take into consideration, besides the aesthetic one. This is what you need to do
when you decide to buy a new kitchen, or to replace the old one. First of all, you
must consider the peculiarities of the room, i.e. its size and shape, then the
position of doors and windows and of sockets and waste pipes. Once you have
taken all these characteristics into consideration, you can decide the
composition of the furniture of your kitchen. In single line kitchens pieces of
furniture and home appliances are all lined up along one wall (the best
solution in case of small rooms or doors and windows taking up more walls),
while in two-way gallery kitchens the furniture takes up two parallel walls.
There are also L-shaped kitchens, on two contiguous walls of the room, U-shaped
kitchens, in which the furniture takes up three contiguous walls, and kitchens
with insula and pensinsula added.

Now you can
start designing your kitchen, to have it done by a carpenter or a mason, or to
go to a shop and find the model that best meets your desires. If you cannot
afford an interior designer, you can take pen and paper and try to draw a scale
model of your kitchen. In this way it will be much easier for you to have an
idea of what your kitchen will look like, and to buy the perfect kitchen for
your room. During this step it is also very important to highlight sockets and
waste pipes, to know exactly where to insert home appliances (it is advisable
to keep the oven, the fridge and the dishwasher at least 60-80 cm away from
each other).

Finally you can
deal with the choice of the style of your kitchen: on the market you can find
cheap and luxury kitchens, with classic or modern furniture, traditional or
futuristic. What is essential is to choose the style that best represents you,
and which is consistent with the rest of the house, paying also attention to
the materials that you want to use for tiles and panels.  

It took a bit
time and effort, but now the design of your kitchen is over, and you only need
to wait for good professionals to build or install it, then you will be able to
enjoy this important space of your house!

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Chapter 2, to analyze the top manufacturers of Automotive ESP, with sales, revenue, and price of Automotive ESP, in 2016 and 2017;

Chapter 3, to display the competitive situation among the top manufacturers, with sales, revenue and market share in 2016 and 2017;

Chapter 4, to show the global market by regions, with sales, revenue and market share of Automotive ESP, for each region, from 2012 to 2017;

Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, to analyze the key regions, with sales, revenue and market share by key countries in these regions;

Chapter 10 and 11, to show the market by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2012 to 2017;

Chapter 12, Automotive ESP market forecast, by regions, type and application, with sales and revenue, from 2017 to 2022;

Chapter 13, 14 and 15, to describe Automotive ESP sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, Research Findings and Conclusion, appendix and data source

In today’s business world what are good small business opportunities? The answer is new businesses that can provide products or services to a sizable market of customers who want to buy. One way to move forward is to get involved in a marketplace that is already established and offer products or services in that market in a unique way so that customers want to start buying from you.

Another alternative is to identify unusual small business opportunities in smaller niche markets. These smaller markets are ones suited to the resources of a small business, do not compete with larger businesses and are big enough to make a profit.

The key to success is that your products or services must connect with your target audience. The problem often faced by new entrepreneurs when getting involved in small business opportunities is that they target a market that is too broad or a niche market that is already heavily exploited. .

The Search For Small Business Opportunities.

A lot of successful small home based business opportunities begin with an entrepreneur’s unique area of expertise. They look at what they are good at, things that they enjoy and use their skills and resources to transform an idea into a real business.

In today’s economy, the best new business to start is an online business, as the start-up costs are costs considerably lower than any physical offline business costs.The internet is the most effective marketing tool in today’s digital world and all new small business opportunities need to have some sort of online presence to remain competitive. The internet allows you to easily expand your business beyond the confines of your physical location.

Starting A Small Business Opportunity.

There are many websites online that help people get started with small business opportunities. The internet is a worldwide marketplace where people are buying and selling online constantly. There are physical products bought online that get delivered to the customer’s door and digital products which the customer can download to their computer right after purchase and start using immediately.

There is a boom in small business opportunities within the digital products and services sector. Just think of all the online film, music and information services that are available online. People will pay for information products that they can download online and there may well be a market out there who will pay for your current skills and expertise.