August 2012 - The Castelo Blog

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Portugal ideal refurbishment property

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, buying property in portugal, Construction land, House for sale, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, refurbishment, Swimming Pools: All you need to know August 31, 2012 0 comment

Portugal ideal refurbishment property What makes a particular house ideal for refurbishment ? This question “What makes a particular house ideal for ...

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Moving to central Portugal or just won the Euro Millions

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, buying property in portugal, Living in Portugal August 30, 2012 0 comment

Moving to central Portugal is a life changing moment. Most of us are in a position to choose the type of home that we want to live in and how we want ...

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Own a house, ruin, refurbishment project in Portugal ?

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, buying property in portugal, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, property problems, refurbishment August 30, 2012 0 comment

Then you no doubt have the same problem that most of us do here. Were to leave your keys when you are on holiday or out of the country. A neighbour, u...

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Pre Installation of a condensing gas boiler

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, Construction land, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, property problems, refurbishment August 30, 2012 0 comment

Basic per-installation is the same It doesn’t matter whether you are going to use town gas, natural gas, propane or butane. ...

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Chestnut Beams in a portugese house

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Living in Portugal August 28, 2012 0 comment

Heavy Chestnut beams Here in central Portugal the trunks of chestnut trees are often used as the main beam in a house. Usually they are built into st...

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Our clients often look back at the original photographs of their homes in Portugal

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, Construction land, How to . . ., Living in Portugal August 28, 2012 0 comment

Our clients often look back and compare them to the ones taken after we have refurbished, extended or altered them. It’s always fun to see the differe...

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Roof problems – The end

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Living in Portugal August 28, 2012 0 comment

As we have seen in previous posts Link https://www.casteloconstruction.info/2012/08/23/roof-problems-get-worse/ Link https://www.casteloconstruction...

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Roof Problems Get Worse

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, buying property in portugal, Driving in Portugal, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, low cost build, property problems, refurbishment August 23, 2012 0 comment

Roof Problems Get Worse - The sorry end to a sagging roof In the previous blog we talked about a soundly constructed house with a sagging roof was a ...

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Roof Problems Portugal

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, buying property in portugal, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, low cost build, property problems, refurbishment August 23, 2012 0 comment

Roof Problems A typical house in central Portugal with a typical roof problem. I often notice this house in Ansiao. The roof is displaying almost all...

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Swimming Pool water jets what do they do

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, How to . . ., Swimming Pools: All you need to know August 16, 2012 0 comment

Jets, what are they and what do they do Your swimming pool will have one or several “water jets” these jets are normally positioned up wi...

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Pool Water Filter

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, Swimming Pools: All you need to know August 16, 2012 0 comment

Sand Filter (the large round thing) This filter receives water from the swimming pool that has gone through the basket filters in the skimmers and ...

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Swimming pool Portugal – equipment, going into a pool house

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, Swimming Pools: All you need to know August 16, 2012 0 comment

Swimming pool Portugal - equipment, going into a pool house can be very confusing and made more so if the various equipment is labelled in Portuguese....

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Swimming pool and water treatment equipment

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Living in Portugal August 16, 2012 0 comment

If you planning on having a swimming pool, just bought a house with a swimming pool or are about to build your own swimming pool you will also be int...

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very popular house design Portugal

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, Building Plot, buying property in portugal, Construction land, House for sale, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, low cost build, property problems August 9, 2012 0 comment

[gallery order="DESC" orderby="title"] This house design is very popular. It can be built in stone or rendered or a mixture of both. The house has 3 ...

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