Home improvement
**Types of Home Improvement:**
– Building projects altering existing home structure
– Improvements to lawns, gardens, and outdoor structures
– Maintenance, repair, and general servicing tasks
– Goals include comfort, maintenance, additional space, saving energy, safety
– Projects can upgrade HVAC systems, add luxuries, increase plumbing/electrical capacity, waterproof basements, soundproof rooms
**Comfort Upgrades:**
– Upgrading heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems
– Adding luxuries to rooms
– Increasing plumbing and electrical capacity
– Waterproofing basements
– Soundproofing rooms
**Maintenance and Repair Tasks:**
– Projects like roof tear-off and replacement
– Installing new windows
– Repairing concrete and masonry
– Repainting rooms and fences
– Fixing plumbing and electrical systems
**Creating Additional Space:**
– Turning marginal areas into livable spaces
– Extending houses with extra rooms
– Adding levels to roofs
– Creating add-ons for more living space
**Energy Efficiency and Safety Measures:**
– Reducing utility costs with thermal insulation and efficient lighting
– Using renewable energy sources like biomass stoves and solar panels
– Installing programmable thermostats and geothermal heat pumps
– Implementing energy-saving measures for a more sustainable home
– Safety measures for emergency management, security, and privacy
– Fire protection systems, technical solutions for natural disasters, home safety enhancements
The concept of home improvement, home renovation or remodeling is the process of renovating, making improvements or making additions to one's home. Home improvement can consist of projects that upgrade an existing home interior (such as electrical and plumbing), exterior (masonry, concrete, siding, roofing) or other improvements to the property (i.e. garden work or garage maintenance/additions). Home improvement projects can be carried out for a number of different reasons; personal preference and comfort, maintenance or repair work, making a home bigger by adding rooms/spaces, as a means of saving energy, or to improve safety.
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