Lourenco Property Maintenance & Renovations

Beautification and added features

• Wallpapering and painting walls or installing wood panelling.
• Adding new flooring such as carpets, tiling, linoleum, wood flooring, or solid hardwood flooring.
• Upgrading cabinets, fixtures, and sinks in the kitchen and bathroom.
• Replacing siding and windows
• Improving the backyard with sliding doors, wooden patio decks, patio gardens, jacuzzis, swimming pools, and fencing.

Comfort

• Upgrading heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems (HVAC)
• Increasing the capacity of plumbing and electrical systems.
• Waterproofing basements.
• Soundproofing rooms, especially bedrooms and baths.

Maintenance and repair

Maintenance projects can include:

• Roof tear-off and replacement.
• Concrete and masonry repairs to the foundation and chimney.
• Repairing plumbing and electrical systems.

Additional space

Additional living space may be added by:

• Turning marginal areas into livable spaces such as turning basements into recrooms or attics into spare bedrooms.
• Extending one's house with rooms added to the side of one's home or, sometimes, extra levels to the original roof.

Saving energy

Homeowners may reduce utility costs with:

• Energy-efficient insulation, windows, and lighting.
• Renewable energy with biomass pellet stoves, wood-burning stoves, solar panels, wind turbines, and geothermal exchange heat pumps (see autonomous building)

Safety and preparedness

Emergency preparedness safety measures such as:

• Home fire and burglar alarm systems.
• Fire Sprinkler Systems to protect homes from fires
• Security doors, windows, and shutters.
• Storm cellars as protection from tornadoes and hurricanes.
• Bombshelters especially during the 1950s as protection from nuclear war.
• Backup Generators for providing power during Power Outages

 From Wikipedia