There are various kind of window shades available now a days for window decoration and functinality and the quality of window blinds have improved a lot with time, now window shades are not only for light control purpose we now count on the decorative aspect of the shades too. Gama Cortinas brings a full range of products for windows, that suits your needs and can match any home decor. Here are the products you can get from them:

1. Rolling: Roller blinds which come with motorised or manual rolling system. Roller blinds comes in various shades imparting beauty to the windows.

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The air flow gauge or Thermo-Anemometer is a neat tool. It measures the amount of air flow coming out of a HVAC duct to see if the unit is functioning properly.

The display unit is digital and can be programmed for metric or English measurements such as cubic feet per minute (CFM), kilometers per hour (KPH), knots, miles per hour and temperature displays. The other piece is a vane sensor that looks like a propeller in a cage. A cable connects the two units together.

To use the air flow gauge, you simply program the size of a register in the house. You enter in square feet into the unit, set a location and measure to air flow using that parameter.

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The Portabello Estate ( beautiful door) is an ultra exclusive estate located between Newport and Laguna beach in Orange County, California. The giant residence consists of no less than eight bedrooms, ten bathrooms (and 5 half baths) and two saltwater pools surrounded by spectacular grotto cliffs. To list just a few, here are some of the unique amenities of this project, as seen on the official Portabello website: a garage for 16 cars, full fitness facilities, a three-story central seascape grotto with two saltwater swimming pools, two spas, a tunnel, a waterside, waterfall features, barbecue area and bathroom, 10-pin bowling lanes and many more.

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Like most people, I love working in the yard, but hate dealing with weeds.  I know that we must accept that no matter what we do, weeds will always be there.  You may not be able to rid them completely, but a good layer of mulch can greatly reduce their existence.

Before applying mulch, make sure the area is as weed-free as possible.  Use a hoe or shovel to remove large weeds and their roots.  Pull the smaller weeds by hand.  Be sure to throw the weeds in the trash and not back in the dirt for compost — they’ll just re-root and grow back.

Another way to get rid of weeds is to turn the dirt with a tiller.  This will expose the roots of any remaining weeds to sunlight.  The roots will dry and the weeds will die.  If time allows, do this two or three times several days before mulching.  The more times you turn the soil and expose the roots of weeds to sunlight, the less likely they will return.  For the few weeds that do come back, try hitting them with a weed killer as a last resort.

In areas that have good drainage, apply two to three inches of compacted mulch.  This should be sufficient to block the sunlight to any new weeds that germinate.  Without the sunlight the chance they will mature is greatly reduced.  In areas with drainage problems, apply one to two inches compacted mulch.

If weeds do pop up through the mulch, simply pull them out.  Weed starts are easy to pull from mulch because the root structure does not have a good hold until it reaches the soil under the mulch.  Mulch won’t stop all the weeds, but it will reduce the amount of time you are on your knees pulling them. 

Here is a little information about us. Our names are Dave and Glenda Altman. We live in Middle Tennessee. Dave is a licensed realtor. I am a legal secretary.


HOW IT ALL STARTED

We started doing remodeling projects over 40 years ago, shortly after we were married.

It was 1968 and Dave was in the Navy and we lived in Portsmouth, Virginia in off-base housing.

When we moved in, the floor in the kitchen was deplorable. It was just pieces and chunks of flooring.

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