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Floor Designs for Basement Finishing Reviews Posted: 02 Jun 2014 11:37 AM PDT Floor Designs for Basement Finishing The floor is part of the house that serves to counteract the soil moisture in order to cold and damp do not enter into the room. There are various types of flooring material that can be applied to interior and exterior. The selection of the floor type is usually based on the consideration of function and beauty of the space. Based on material quantity, there are some materials that can be mounted on the basement floor. The following will be explained about the floor designs for basement finishing. Floor-Designs-for-Basement-Finishing PC tiles. This material is made from cement, sand, and dyes. These tiles have the shape of a rectangle or octagon. Of the many other flooring materials, tiles material is including the cheapest and easiest to install. In the market, this kind of tiles are available in a variety of sizes and design, you can select the color and size as you wish. Granite and marble floors. These floors are made from hard igneous material and dominant quartz minerals. This mixture makes the look of marble and granite floors looks speckled. Although granite has dark black color, but the speckled still will look shiny, so granite looks wonderful when it was seen. While the marble floor made from the carbonate calcium mineral rocks-button which processed in high temperatures naturally. The colors and patterns of marble are very diverse, there are like wood or like illustrated stone. In the market, marble normally sold in size or shaped like a flat sheet of tiles. If you want to use the marble on the floor or wall, then there are some tips to take care of it. First, always use coating as marble protector from moss, or spotting and unwanted stain. Usually this coating can withstand at least 3 up to 6 months depending on its quality. Second, clean up drink-colored former spills such as coffee, tea, syrup, cola and others quickly. If you let it left in marble, it will make a black or brown spot so it will decrease the beauty and cleanliness of the marble. Third, to clean marble floors, use special marble cleaners that are sold in market. Never use cleaning materials containing acids such as ceramic cleaner because it will make the white spots appear in marble or granite. Terrazzo Floor. This floor is made from a mixture of cement, terrazzo, stone fragments and sand. Before it was installed, the terrazzo floor needs to be polished with polishing machine or manually. Terrazzo tiles are available in different sizes. Ceramic floors. Ceramic tile floor is the floor material that most widely used. The color and design of the ceramic flooring is various. Before installing ceramic tile floor, first you should determine the type of ceramic tile design, because ceramics for interior and exterior is usually different. Bathroom ceramics is not to be installed in the living room. Before starting to install ceramic tile floor, you need to measure the area of the room, as well as determine the pattern of installation. Natural stone floor. This floor is an important part in the construction of buildings. A building that has a natural stone floor will look much more beautiful than using other floor design. This floor is made from natural stones, it can also be used to decorate your wall or the roof of the building, depending on the needs of the building and your taste. Indonesia is a country that has the most varied natural rocks. The presence of the rock floor is certainly one of the elements which gave beauty in the building architecture. At first, natural stone floors have only slight variations in color and design. Then the designs and colors of rocks floors become vary due to consumer's demand. Natural stone floor does tend to be more expensive than ceramic, but its value artistic that have been displayed is very high. Using natural stone flooring for floor or wall in your basement will give the elegance and natural impression. When you choose a floor design for basement finishing, you must also adjust it with the house style and space functions. Do not use a wooden floor in the basement because the basement is prone with damp conditions. Wood floor will quickly dull and obsolete if located in humid spaces. The rocks floors are the most suitable floor was placed in the basement.

Choosing Basement Finishing Companies Reviews Posted: 01 Jun 2014 11:37 PM PDT Choosing Basement Finishing Companies There are two methods that can be used to build or renovate a basement. The first method, you become contractor who worked on the renovation or construction of your basement. So you have to make the design of the basement, composed of planning in building basements and make plans about budget costs. You just need to hire some workers to help you build or renovate a basement. But if you don’t have enough leisure to work on all the stages of the basement construction, you can choose the second method, hire contractors and architect to turn your basement into spaces that you dream of. Choosing-Basement-Finishing-Companies When you hire a contractor, you should give a rough design of basement so that they have a guide in drawing up the design of the basement according your favor. Then you have to review their budget costs which they have showed to you. Do not let any wastage of funds in the workmanship of the basement renovation. In addition, you must monitor and supervise the workmanship process of basement renovation at least once in a week. The contractor will work carefully and thoroughly if you as the employer do continue supervises. Do not let you bear the loss from errors committed by contractors because you never keep an eye on their work. Every homeowner and buildings who want to do a repair or improvement of the quality of the building like a basement should use services from a competent renovation company. Especially for the finishing process that quite complicated. Using the expert renovators, the planning of basement renovation and its execution will go well because it is doing in a professional way. Here are helpful tips that you have to regard when you choose the services of basement finishing company. 1.    Watch the works to be given to the basement finishing company a lot enough or not. If the job quite a lot, it should be given to contractors that have large personnel or artificer who much and complete. If the work of finishing process is just a little, select small company to finish your basement renovation. To choose basement finishing company which according to need, you could ask your friend or family. 2.    Whenever possible, look the house or building example ever worked by basement finishing company carefully to see the quality of their work. 3. There are some type basement finishing companies based on his work. first type namely basement finishing company which serve only as implementer so that all of the material prepared by the owner. While second type is basement finishing company as a steward as well as implementer so constructed and choosing the material done by the company. If you don't want to be busy, you can barely point to type second. 4.    Set the wage way for basement finishing company: wage daily or once wage for the entire work. If you have enough time to supervise, should use wage daily system. Because of your supervision can make work can done faster than the time specified contractor. Make sure that building material always available without a pause so the working of contractor more efficient and more completed soon. Once wage system can also be implemented in some way. First, in the once wage for entire work and materials. In these systems, the reference of payment is exertion and material that used up to the work finish. Second, once wages system only for worker. Here, wages calculated according with items work completed by worker because building material prepared by you as employer. 5.   Choose basement finishing company according to the ability financial you have. You can use savings or the deposits; you can also borrow money from another party like individuals and financial institution. If you choose borrow money from other party, then consider your abilities to repay the loan.

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