Exterior Lighting
People often ask what is the best way to light the exterior walls of their home, garden walls or patios.
Fortunately in Portugal we have access to li...
Maintaining or increasing your home value in Portugal
Maintaining or increasing your home value in Portugal
Home value ?
Maintaining or increasing your home value in Portugal is a very important issue...
Building a low cost garden sun shade
Building a low-cost garden sun shade
Pergolas, sun shades and Alpendres make a very welcome addition to any garden, terrace or pool side patio.Buildi...
warm swimming pool water for free
Warm swimming pool water for free
In an effort to prolong the comfortable use of our swimming pool beyond the usual 3 months Castelo Construction r...
Narrow or steep stairs
Narrow or steep stairs
Are a constant problem in homes the house holder become use to them and may not have any problems using them for a while and t...
Painting exterior walls
Painting exterior walls
Most people want to keep their Portuguese properties in good condition, attractive and well maintained. It could be the influ...
Minimum Room Sizes
Minimum Room Sizes
You may have bought a property with the idea of refurbishing it or extending or otherwise re arranging the layout of the accommoda...
building land
Building land
Location, Location, Location are still the three most important considerations when buying a property that will be easy to live in and ...
Electrical Installation
Electrical Installation
How we love the simplicity of our everyday dealings with the Portuguese electrical supplier EDP
The complexity of dealin...
Warm Swimming Pool
There is nothing better than a warm swimming pool
Lazing around in our warm swimming pool , cooling off in those hot summer months make you glad that...
Cracked Ceiling
Cracked Ceiling
Your new property acquisition in Portugal probably has traditional boarder ceilings which will no doubt be cracked even a little sa...
Cost to Renovate
Cost to Renovate
What does it cost to renovate a house in Portugal ? Was there ever a bigger question? Or a question more open to misinformation in t...
Borax as a wood worm killer preventative
Borax as a wood worm killer preventative
Can’t help thinking of BORAT and the famous “man-kini” when I see the word Borax.
Not as funny but it has...
full refurbishment of an old house
We are about to start the full refurbishment of an old house. Originally well-built in stone it is suffering quite a lot from damp and water ingress.
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