Thursday 10 May 2012

Devon Builders Facebook Business Page


Here is a link to the Devon Builders facebook fan or business page, please if you have a minute go to the page and hit the like buttton, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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Devon Builders Video showcase on youtube


More in depth Devon Building videos coming your way soon, thanks for watching

Monday 10 October 2011

Devon Builders Free Index Profile is Live

The Devon Builders have launched their company profile page on the uk's free index service. This is a very well known business directory for local products and services. Go check out the great profile page here,


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Friday 23 September 2011

Devon Builders Video

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Here is a great video of a 16th century Millhouse being restored by the Devon Building Company Brimblecombe.
Victorian House Restoration Videos Part
Victorian House Restoration Videos Part 2
Victorian House Restoration Videos Part 3
Thank you for watching the devon builders Victorian House Restoration Videos. More episodes coming soon

Thursday 22 September 2011

Funding Your Old Devon House Restoration Project


Funding your Old Devon Home Restoration Project
When it comes to home restoration projects there are all sorts of questions that may run
through your head. Perhaps the most important question, though, if you don't have a full bank
account, is how you will fund these home restoration projects that you want to do. There are
actually many different plans that you can come up with, but this is the first question that
you should think about. After all, restoration your house does take money; if you don't have
it then the home contracting company may not decide to work for you!
Tapping into Loans
Loans are actually a good way to make home restoration projects around your house a success!
Unless you do not have a very good credit score and report then chances are that you will be
able to easily obtain a loan through a bank or a credit union. One of the best reasons to use
bank loans, though, is if you will be quickly selling your house and moving after you have
completed the restoration projects. For example, if you obtain the loan through a bank to
complete the home restoration projects then it is very possible, if not almost guaranteed,
that you will get all of your money back when you sell your home. In addition, the price that
you sell your home for may well exceed the price that you paid for your house and the
renovations that were completed. If this is the case then you are able to pay off the loan to
the bank and keep the extra that is yours!
Another route to go about getting a loan for home restoration projects is through a home
equity loan. Unless you don't have your house paid off then you will be able to easily obtain
a home equity loan. These loans are obtained directly through a mortgage company and it is
essentially borrowing a little bit of money against the house. Just as in the bank scenario,
though, if you are about to move after home restoration projects are completed then you can
easily pay off the home equity loan and keep the overhead profits!
Raising Money
This is another way to complete much needed home restoration projects, however, you should
definitely only use this route if your home is in dire need of repairs around the house.
There are plenty of ways to raise money for your house, though. One way, which is also
commonly used in the United States, is to ask the church you attend to help you out
monetarily. Most church members will be more than willing to do something like this. But
again, this method should only be used in extreme circumstances.
Saving Money
This is perhaps the best method of all. One sure-fire way not to lose money in your home
restoration projects is to simply save the money that you need in order to complete the home
renovations. By saving money each week and each month you will be very close to the monetary
goal that you need to remodel your home.
All of these ways, though, are great ways to fund the home restoration projects that you have
on your plate. Of course, the amount of home restoration projects that needs to be completed
and the time you have to complete them will probably dictate how you will pay. But
nevertheless, there are definitely various ways that you can use in order to successful
remodel your home!

Sunday 7 August 2011

Setting up Restoration & Renovation - The Worth of Working with the Correct Resources & Strategies

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  • A small embodied energy, i.e., the elements of the household have to also be green or like the CAFE standards of the vehicle sector an average lower power expenditure in the manufacturing, mining, processing, transportation, and many others. (another consideration is that vitality use equates to CO2 emissions)



  • A superior percentage of sustainable parts, Straw bale, papercrete, tire construction are beneficial examples simply because they make use of reused, as opposed to recycled, or waste merchandise. Adobe, Pressed and Rammed earth, cob and earth sheltered are great examples of environmentally non intrusive, sustainable, building as properly.


    A reduced vitality use, enough thermal mass or insulation, appropriate photo voltaic orientation and design and style, productive heating and cooling pattern between several other standards.


    It is important to realize that vitality performance on your own DOES NOT qualify as green construction. Like the expanding nationwide deficit, higher embodied power and or unsustainability can not be repaid by small electricity use, as the saying goes "you are unable to make up for damage with volume".

    Products and solutions like brick, concrete, steel, and engineered lumber have a large embodied power and unless of course applied sparingly convey the embodied electricity so large that the deficit can by no means be repaid.

    An additional enormous consideration is the reusability of a item at the finish of its' lifespan. Metal has a really good reuse, as properly as a recycle-power but concrete does not. How about polystyrene? NOT, I suppose you can grind it up and blend it with cement, that is what Rastra is. then you can enhance it with three or four tons of steel rebar then core it with ten or 15 yds of concrete. all on a concrete slab and some with a concrete roof. all metal reinforced. NOT GREEN

    I even have my doubts about strawbale, considering the cement stucco and concrete essential for construction, By the way, straw has a quite higher embodied vitality not to mention the injury to the land triggered by eliminating it and not plowing it again into the soil. taking into consideration the bailing and the transportation then the use of membranes to continue to keep it dry. It doesn't have any a lot more lifespan than body building and there is a significant use of timber frame or engineered lumber simply because straw bales are not load bearing. But it is electricity successful for a time and low-cost. (it is my view that strawbale development is NOT GREEN despite what lots of internet sites are declaring. It is correct that strawbale building can be green with the afore pointed out issues addressed nevertheless the sustainability is nevertheless in dilemma simply because of the marginal lifespan of the structure.)

    Papercrete? The utilization of reused newspaper with a slight volume of Portland and sand along with non-mortared stacking and vermin resistance make papercrete a viable alternate for the owner builder as a Green dwelling. This a quite labor intensive strategy even though not as intensive as Adobe or Rammed Earth or applied tire building.

    Utilized Tires? I involved this system to underscore the value of the proprietor-builder's contribution to the pantheon of Green construction practices. With the inclusion of Rammed Earth and or CEB interior partitions and photo voltaic orientation and the exclusion of a concrete slab and foundation this is a terrific system that has the likely of lasting hundreds of a long time, what superior way to use a merchandise that has carried out its' lifespan as created. House Builders Devon  .

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