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Time to insulate your home

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, refurbishment April 15, 2015

Its spring in Portugal and now is the time to start insulating your home. [caption id="attachment_2800" align="alignright" width="300"] time to ins...

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Cold Winter Hot Summer

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in buying property in portugal, Living in Portugal, refurbishment April 14, 2015

Early April in Portugal and its getting warm outside. People are sitting out in the sun its 27 degrees with a warm wind blowing. The perfect drying d...

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Are there small holes in your wood work?

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in buying property in portugal, property problems, woodworm wood worm April 13, 2015

Normally you hardly notice the small holes in your wood work unless they are on a piece that is painted like this. [caption id="attachment_2792" al...

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Swimming Pools

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in buying property in portugal, House for sale, Living in Portugal, property problems, swimming pool, Swimming Pools: All you need to know April 12, 2015

Swimming pools are the stuff of lottery dreamers. The must be very high on the list of items in an ideal home. You need some good weather to enjoy a ...

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Scrapbook

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, How to . . ., low cost build, refurbishment, swimming pool April 7, 2015

House renovation or new build scrapbook? I have seen it described on television as a mood board a shopping list or a bunch of Likes. I tend to think ...

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Green is not always nice

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, damp house, House for sale, property problems, woodworm wood worm April 6, 2015

While inspecting an old house recently for clients we came across this on the underside of this roof "Green is not always nice" [caption id="attachme...

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Castelo Construction

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, buying property in portugal, Living in Portugal, low cost build, property problems, woodworm wood worm April 2, 2015

Castelo Construction. Helps people like you to get the very best out of your new home in central Portugal. Whether it is an old house that you want t...

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Buying a property next to a lake or river

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building Plot, buying property in portugal, damp house, House for sale, Living in Portugal, property problems April 1, 2015

Many people dream of buying a property next to a lake or river in rural Portugal. [caption id="attachment_2743" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Many...

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Bathroom Questions

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, buying property in portugal, Living in Portugal, refurbishment April 1, 2015

Whenever we plan to fit out a bathroom there are always lots of questions and choices to be made. Take tiles for instance - Colour, size texture, til...

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swimming pools

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in How to . . ., Living in Portugal, refurbishment, swimming pool, Swimming Pools: All you need to know March 30, 2015

We had a client meeting today Pleased to say that they are very happy with our work and wanted to talk about phase 3 of their property refurbishment....

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Your ideal home in Portugal

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, Building Plot, House for sale, Living in Portugal, low cost build March 27, 2015

What is your ideal home in Portugal Many of us are seduced by large homes in even larger plots of land when we are house hunting in Portugal. We thi...

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Lime Render in Portugal

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, How to . . ., low cost build March 27, 2015

Truth be told we don’t see a lot of it (lime render) in Portugal. [caption id="attachment_2720" align="alignright" width="300"] Render has washed off...

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Planning

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in Building in Portugal, buying property in portugal, How to . . ., Living in Portugal, property problems, refurbishment March 21, 2015

Many people moving to Portugal and intending to extend, refurbish or remodel their Portuguese property may decide not to talk to the local council abo...

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Open tread stairs

Posted By Castelo Construction Lda in buying property in portugal, House for sale, property problems, woodworm wood worm March 19, 2015

When you are house hunting in Portugal it is common to come across homes with open tread stairs like these. [caption id="attachment_2707" align="alig...

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