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London builders: Sheer appeal of your shower. Part one.

March 29, 2023   Matt

London builders: Sheer appeal of your shower. Part one.

If you think that your old bathroom or even your shower needs a little bit of modernization, you would be surprised of the great choice at your disposal.

Today showers vary greatly according to shapes, models and places of installation. Sometimes an ordinary shower head is impossible to recognize – so much it is modified according to new fashion trends and tendencies of bathroom equipment design development. It has to be mentioned, that the shower heads have recently become an object of an active art-design. On the one hand, the bath ceased playing the key role in the bathroom and is now often replaced by a shower cubicle. The accent shifted and now shower set is emphasized. On the other hand, overwhelming majority of bathrooms are equipped with showers, which are an integral part of their image.

Owing to the intensive development of installation systems, a shower can be located in any place, on the wall or ceiling; it can arise on a column out of the floor, or even soar in the centre of the room like an UFO. All these factors have greatly influenced its shape, size and dimensions.

Column shower.
Column shower is perhaps the most modern phenomenon in shower sets design. One should not mix it with shower column (water pipe) or panel on the wall. It appeared, because a shower cubicle or an open shower usually do not have any contacts with walls and, moreover, are often situated rather far from them. Nevertheless, they should be somehow fixed. Therefore a metal column with a water pipe inside appeared. At the top of it there is a fixed shower head of a large diameter, which can be of various geometrical shapes. Shower mixer taps are located at the convenient level. Sometimes manual shower is included in the column.

Now, besides separate floor-standing shower columns, floor mixing drainages for baths and even sinks are produced. Sometimes all the set of hydrant accessories for bathrooms with the corresponding collection of bathroom equipment is performed in this model.

Fixed shower heads.
Traditional fixed shower heads resembles very much a well-known model that has been considered until now something hopelessly obsolete. Fixed shower pipe, through which water is supplied from the mixer to the shower head. This type of shower, modernized today, has become one of the most popular and asked-for one. As a rule, such shower system is mounted on the wall, but there are some modifications designed for free floor-standing model.

Elegant shower arms are topped by massive shower heads: solid dome-shaped or almost flat with distinguished high tech features, round and sometimes rectangular. Most of manufacturers supply them with a protection from lime deposits accumulation system; therefore, they are not threatened by danger, which disabled their predecessors. Special location of outlet openings allows reaching variable massage effects. Besides the large top shower head, manual shower is included, which increases its convenience in use.

Rotating shower heads.
Today instead of a fixed shower head, rotating shower head is often used.

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Builders Cleans – A Lucrative Market For Commercial Cleaners

December 20, 2022   Matt

Builders Cleans – A Lucrative Market For Commercial Cleaners

With office cleaning becoming an increasingly competitive market for contract cleaning companies they must diversify or move into a niche market if they wish to continue to grow. One niche market that is not so competitive is that of ‘builders clean’. The number of companies that offer a good, high quality service to the construction industry is relatively small. So for small to medium sized firms it is well worth considering entering this market.

In order to succeed the company must be prepared to come out of the safe environment of office cleaning which provides a regular and consistent income but at relatively low profit margins and take a leap into the world of uncertainty. You can build up a group of builders that you clean for but the work can still be spasmodic and irregular. You could go for the large house building companies where a project might extend over two years and carry out three or sometimes four cleans on each dwelling. For these you do have to be prepared to reduce your profits for the security of constant work because they actually pay less than other types of construction but still require the same high standard of cleaning.

To gain credibility in the industry you have to be prepared to work with the builder and meet their requirements. Their requirements are under time constraints and the cleaners are generally the last contractors to be brought into a project. Very few projects run smoothly to the planned programme therefore quite often as a cleaning contractor you must be prepared to alter your schedules and react quickly to changes in the plan. Sometimes with only 24 hours notice. This can cause problems in staffing a particular clean. So you and the workforce must be prepared to be very flexible.

It is also not uncommon to turn up on a site to carry out a clean to find a whole variety of sub contractors still at work and nothing ready to clean. Although frustrating it is all part and parcel of getting into the world of builders cleans.

In order to succeed you must firstly maintain a high standard in your cleaning if you wish to be called back to do other cleans by the contracting company and secondly you must be prepared to be incredibly flexible and meet demands that come in at short notice. Once you have proved your worth to a building company they will call you in to complete all their cleans. Each clean is quite profitable so it is well worth the time and trouble put in to developing the right contacts and putting together a good team of cleaners who are prepared to be very flexible in when and where they work. If you do not have a pool of cleaners that you can call on easily and quickly then you will end up finding it difficult to cover builders cleans when they come in thick and fast!

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London builders: bathroom microclimate and placement. Part two.

February 17, 2022   Matt

London builders: bathroom microclimate and placement. Part two.

A suspended ceiling is very functional in the new bathroom. Good looking, it can hide electric wiring, ventilation pipes, and etc. A suspended ceiling can be of different types: metal or moisture-resistant gypsum-plaster.

For the ceiling area increase, suspended ceiling boards should be mounted perpendicularly (a 90-grade angle) to the long wall or diagonally. For creation of the effect of a high ceiling, mirror boards or white mat boards with mirror fillets between them are used.

A moisture-resistant gypsum-plaster ceiling can be made multilevel one of any shape: semicircle, diamond-shaped, oval, circle, zigzag lines with decorative cornice, into which daylight lamps can be installed. Spotlights can also be installed in the gypsum-plaster ceiling.

Let’s turn to the lighting now. A new bathroom should be lit brightly. Bright light arises bright feelings, feelings of protectiveness and joy. A simple wall lamp creates a lot of unnecessary shadows, that is why it is better to replace it with spotlights, built into the suspended ceiling. There exist spotlights of various shapes and colors, with halogen bulbs and incandescent lamps. You should choose the type of light you need before making a renovation of your bathroom. Halogen bulbs produce sharp directed ray of light. If you need to highlight some place in your bathroom, it is reasonable to use a rotary lamp with halogen bulbs. You can get softer light out of halogen bulbs with the help of glass diffuser, preset in the shape of the lamp. Incandescent lamps produce more uniformly diffused, soft and bright light. For a bathroom lighting mirror with the built-in lamps will also fit.

The best location for the mirror is above the bathroom sink. The distance between the bottom of a mirror and the top of a sink should be about 15cm; this will help to avoid splashing. In addition, mirror is the best and indispensable material for expansion of bathroom space. Today there exist a variety of mirror types, however, the most optimal and functional of them is the mirror with lamps and shelves for various toilet articles.

It is possible to add variety to the new bathroom with the help of differently shaped niches, as well as decorative glass blocks. It is also advisable to decorate the bathroom walls and floor with flowers in the pots, taking into account, that for some species of plants such microclimate is perfect for constant growth and blossoming.

While making bathroom renovation one should pay attention to the following main stages.

The bathroom floor. The most important and difficult subject of the bathroom renovation is the floor damp proofing. Tiny cracks can lead to a damp proofing malfunction, which will result in leakage and fights with neighbors.

Pipe run. It is important to carry out pipe and new bathroom equipment assembly in a quality manner, in order to avoid leakage.

Making a plan of bathroom renovation, don’t forget about ventilation. If the bathroom has poor ventilation, condensate will appear on the walls and ceiling, mould will appear as a result of it, and the whole bathroom renovation will come to nothing.

Bathroom renovation and decoration give place to unbounded flow of fantasy. You can achieve any effect, necessary exactly for you!

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London builders: Sheer appeal of your shower. Part two.

May 18, 2021   Matt

London builders: Sheer appeal of your shower. Part two.

Silver or golden impeller wheel with plenty of fans penetrating small outlets is rotated under the pressure of water streams. As a result, they form zigzag spirals that, sliding and dancing, massage the body slightly, which is very pleasing and useful. It appeared as a part of multifunctional shower cubicle equipment; now it is available as a separate unit and can be installed on the wall or ceiling.

Rotating shower heads look very original and besides its direct functions, it also serves as a decorative addition to bathroom furniture. It should certainly be complemented with a manual shower, as a rotating shower head rather serves for giving its owner a pleasure, than suites as a main washing system.

Chandelier shower.
Chandelier shower is really something exotic. Huge shower head mounted on the ceiling have become an integral part of modern first-class bathrooms. They resemble fantastic chandeliers. Imagine, for example, such “chandelier” consisting of two sections, each having almost 11 inches diameter, installed into huge murano glass screen, sometimes coloured, with an impressive illumination. This is a spectacular construction. In combination with frameless glass it looks striking.

Artifact shower.
A number of shower heads have such unusual shape that it is difficult to describe them. We have even got used to thin cigar-shaped shower head, which has shorter diameter than a hosepipe, but artifact shower odd shapes are often impossible to describe or classify.

Stationary shower, shaped as complex unsteady connections located directly at the top of its body, which allow one to change a stream angle, is something truly innovative. Or some object consisting of seven autonomous small showers heads (a big central one and six rays), that connecting their jets together are capable of giving unforgettable pleasure. When looking at such objects for the first time, one can only guess, what their functions are. Their shape puzzles with the lack of objects to compare them with. The only way to be sure that this is really a shower you have to try it out yourself!

While choosing a shower one should first concentrate on its functional benefits and reliability. Certain factors would determine which shower is right for your. Without going into technical details of a household hot and cold water pressure, there is a choice of the modern showers designed for your needs. Choose a shower that is compatible with your water supply system. It may be worth checking installation requirements to ensure the shower is coping with water system, or get it fitted by experienced plumber. Because of different methods of delivering hot and cold water in the dwelling it is fundamental that you use the right product. Good mews is that having hot and sold supply you will find the best shower solution for bathroom.

Nevertheless, design is important too: a shower is now a decoration element, not only a technical one. Constructions presented today are usually close to high-tech style, but there are also offers of other style showers: from modern to almost traditional English style. Professionals say there is a choice.

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London Builders – New Shower Room Setup Stages

October 20, 2020   Matt

London Builders – New Restroom Installment Phases

New bathroom installment or old washroom renovation is a multistage structure procedure. It consists of a number of steps, which might be executed all sequentially from absolutely no to the final shower room improvement. Likewise a bathroom refurbishment functions might be carried out uniquely – after that you would have newly renovated shower room performed at your own pace as well as desire.
Depending upon the wish, washrooms repair might be total new washroom installment project, or partial restoration functions such as brand-new washroom devices installation, re-tiling, old paint refreshing, brand-new shower cubic setup. As a matter of reality even bathroom accessory replacement might be thought about as shower room remodelling works as a result of the amount of structure works entailed.

To make a choice regarding what sort of washroom refurbishment works you require, it deserves to obtain a suggest from restroom distributors as well as from restroom fitters. A brand-new bathroom installation works may be staged in 3 crucial actions: removals, setups, design. Old shower room elimination functions consist of walls as well as flooring tiles removal, old washroom devices stripping, ceiling stripping if necessary, walls demolition, again if necessary.
Then coming installation stage. New ceiling installation, brand-new walls, floor if necessary. Washroom plumbing and electric works need to be done virtually at the same time. These works are very important for the area of the brand-new shower room devices (tub, bathroom, sink, bidet, shower) and electrical equipment installation(lightning, extractor, electric razor, under-floor heating, towel heater etc) Then gluing (levelling of the walls as well as the floor surface areas), wall surfaces refining with special waterproof sealant. Tiling, painting designing, devices suitable jobs are the last ones on the last.

It is necessary to state that restroom units relocation is fairly intricate shower room repair jobs and also can just be undertaken by contractors firm specialising in washroom setup jobs. Shower room tiling is an essential decor jobs and needs careful technique depending on the tiling materials to be made use of (ceramic, porcelain, all-natural rock) size of the floor tiles (large, tiny, mosaics). The larger is dimension of the tiles you use, the much less the facility appears visually. If the kerb tiles are placed flat, the flooring location of the premise will certainly be raised, if vertically – the elevation will certainly boost. Selecting your shower room ceramic tiles might be the hardest part of the restroom repair job. There are actually countless shades, sizes, designs, forms as well as qualities to select from.

The shower room has actually ended up being an important component of the home and according to the quantity of accessories is extremely affordable with various other properties. Your brand-new shower room style is one point otherwise one of the most crucial one. To begin with, you must make yourself certain regarding the style. Unique web-sites, publications as well as brochures will be valuable for the decision production.

Bathroom devices would certainly be not just beneficial for the showering yet stress your perfect option and also preference. Vendors of shower rooms and washroom devices are trying to be successful each other supplying new layout nearly daily, however the distributors are generally not the most effective consultants. The option today is endless and also there are no regulations. Bathroom repair is an extremely specific sort of structure jobs. For that reason, it is a good idea to entrust it to the washroom installation specialists.

When the new restroom installation is finished as well as the It is specifically pleasant to take a bath, coddling in sweet-scented foam, when around you there is not just warm water, however likewise the shower room environment that helps to loosen up.

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London builders: restroom ideal selection.

August 21, 2020   Matt

London contractors: restroom best choice.

What makes a great restroom.
Just how to choose the ideal shower room suite from all the range we carry the marketplace? What is it required to consider when picking a tub or needed equipment? Well chosen as well as successfully put bathtub and tools will make them comfy as well as simple to use.

To start at the right time.
It is essential to select required bathroom devices (including a tub) prior to the brand-new bathroom setup works start. Having picked the setup of shower room tools, it is required to function out water-piping as well as water drainage system, in instance new format varies from the existing one.

A choice and also a number of pipes as well as fitment required (adapters, fittings, branch boxes, etc) will be selected in accordance with the configuration strategy. In situation the existing layout is protected, it is essential to make a decision whether old shower room pipes need to be replaced. New washroom units setup begins just prior to the beginning of finishing jobs.

Where to start with when choosing a tub.
When picking a bath tub, it is necessary to adhering to requirements. A bath tub needs to be of comfortable dimension as well as form, to fit to the size as well as interior of the new refurbished shower room. The bathtub ought to be strong and immune to mechanical damages, immune to solvent activity of water (wood tubs or Ofuro, also referred to as furo a typical Japanese bathroom, normally connected with a steep-sided wooden bath tub). A brand-new washroom setup system shall represent the existing water system system. In situation water drainage devices (waste traps) are not included in a set, it is required to get a tub and also a waste trap at the very same time to provide compatibility of buildings. Every one of the bath tubs are supplied with the openings for overflow which are structurally gotten in touch with a bathroom catch.

It is advised to select mixers when buying a bath too. It is very important to know that
setting up a brand-new tub, it is required to enable a comfortable room near the brand-new bathtub to make your restroom safe to make use of. Additionally it is better to pick a version with anti-slip finish on a bottom which is provided by adding quartz granulated product or rubber droplets. For ease of utilizing, stylish bath tubs are commonly provided with different sorts of elbow-rests, headrests, comfortable chrome-plated or opulent manages, real estate for soap meals, etc. Many producers generate bathrooms with the back-rests of anatomic kind which comply with body contours. Depending upon a purchaser’s predilections and also general bathroom interior design, it is possible to pick a bathroom collection of virtually any type of color. Generally, the majority of offered industrial restroom suites are of white color. A lot more polished shades are supplied to purchase. Timing of orders differs.

What does a rate of a restroom collection relies on?
Manufacturing product (in increasing rate: steel, cast-iron, acrylic), a size (bath tubs of conventional sizes are more affordable), a form (rectangular tubs are cheaper than angular as well as shaped ones, at various other equivalent summaries: manufacturing material, course, setting). Also the existence of extra practical information: headrests, elbow-rests, seats, deals with, shelves, etc. A class as well as style of an item specifies the rate variety too: “practical”, “initial course”, “super de luxe”. As an example the “very de luxe” rectangle-shaped cast-iron bath tub is much more pricey than the “sensible” shaped acrylic tub).

What is not suggested.
Acquiring a bathtub in case there are also trivial chips or fractures on its surface area. Selecting a restroom suite provider it is better to purchase a bathroom collection of the well-known restroom supplier, which ensures quality of product and coverage: thoroughness of surface area treatment prior to enamel application (no spaces, no handles, neither crumbs or sand are permitted under enamel), quality of the bath tub enamel and also its application. Similar shades of different bathroom suite vendors can have different tones, consequently, it is far better to get a total set of washroom equipment of one maker.

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