Elegant Simplicity
In an article for the website Domain, Jason Dowling talks about the really harmful impact of rising sea levels on waterfront properties. The threat against coastal communities is just so real, with the possibility of sea levels rising by 0.74 metres by the turn of the century. Just just as post and building inspection is significant, climate change inspection should also be made a norm, argues Dowling.
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A flooded basement is always a frustrating situation to many homeowners. What you do next is like a call of truce in utterly chaotic times. Does any bit of strategy help? Yes. I firmly believe so.
I agree that a flooded basement is close to the worst call you can take. You can still live with leaking kitchen sinks and perforated ceilings- but flooded basements, really, who wants that?
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New South Wales has taken an appreciable initiative in order to offer home owners more security. Reflecting on the acute statistics of number of children drowning in swimming pools every year, the state government has made it mandatory for owners and contractors (of new unsold houses) to get a ‘certificate of compliances’ for the pool.
I have this friend’s daughter who got married pretty recently and shot off to the most coveted trip- her honeymoon. Everything was just so brilliant about the idea except for the fact that she announced it boldly, unabashedly and perhaps in an over-the-top way on Facebook (Facebook and Twitter are our constellations today and thanks Lord that Twitter is a Microblogging site where posting details is tougher).
So to come back to the narrative, the beautiful couple posted each and every detail about the trip on the Social Media behemoth.
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“Children see magic because they look for it” but their exploration and yearning for magic sometimes takes them to places we would not want them to go near. Take flyscreens for example. Australia has already witnessed its fair share of deaths when it comes to children toppling over from windows.
So what do you do in order to prepare your home for children? I mean make it really safe for them. Let me take you through a few tips I learnt in the great school called Life and those that I picked up from association with my clients over last many years.
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Bushfires, floods, storms…..these are timely reminders that a force mightier than human beings guides the planet. While we might often feel helpless in the wake of natural disasters, there is no harm (and only gain) in keeping ourselves as well shielded as possible. Within the ambit of this article, let me talk about a few ways you can prepare your home against storm.
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What if I share with you a 3-pronged approach, aimed at enhancing the quality of air in your home? I know you will love the idea because poor indoor air quality has been a silent assassin for long. It has offered fertile grounds for allergens, and they have done enough to make our home a high dome of respiratory illnesses.
In fact, science tells us that poor quality of indoor air can not only trigger asthma and bronchitis related fears but also process less oxygen than the threshold limit to our brain, thus making us considerably duller. So here then is my 3-pronged approach.
You would agree that the National Weather Service is a reliable source. Just as you would imagine, it believes that the tropical storm winds can cause great damage to the roofs of your homes. To make matters worse, it’s that same time of the year again when those winds and that really harsh “willy-willy” can do unprecedented damage.
Roofs bear a great part of the storm brunt and there are as many as three tell-tale signs of damage you roofs give even from the ground level.
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