More peace of mind
Building a home is life-ambition for, perhaps, all of us. We want it to be a journey full of joy and peace.
Joy and peace while we build it for you.
Joy and peace once you start living in this.
It does not mean that we do not make mistakes. We do, and at times, blunders. But we own it up. This way we both are calm and comfortable.
But then you have heard hundreds of horror stories around from people who have built a home. So, how can we promise peace?
Why don’t we demonstrate it to you when we tour a near-completion home of ours? Or over a cup of home-made tea in our office?
Intrusion alarm system
Safety is a big concern for all. An intrusion alarm system or electronic security is a very easy add-on to our HomeEssential to enhance safety. This is emerging fast as an invisible alternative to bulky, very visible grills or jaals. To make maintenance easy, this is part of our warranty.
Better defined plaster ratio
Generally, the plaster ratio is defined as the ratio of cement and sand/dust. We believe it should be defined as a ratio of cement, coarse sand and fine sand. Coarse sand gives it strength and fine sand gives it workability.
Rain water harvesting
As a good and/ or legally compliant practice, we recommend rain water harvesting in our homes. This ensures that rain water is not wasted in drains, but is used to increase the declining levels of underground water.
Specific quality definition of bricks, sand, dust & aggregate
If you ask your 4 neighbours about how to check the quality of bricks, sand etc., you will get 5 different suggestions. To avoid misunderstandings during construction, we have defined the quality criteria that we use in a simple manner in our specifications documents.
Wall thickness
We recommend wall thickness of 9 inch in two cases:
1) External walls, unless plot size is small and
2) Internal walls where concealed fittings and fixtures (like Cistern, diverter) are to be placed or niches are planned.
Curing chemical
Water based curing/ tarai on structure has been largely replaced by curing compounds in large projects like group housing projects of large national developers. It has been incorporated in the IS codes and large chemical companies like Pidilite, Sika, Fosroc make this compound. It reduces wastage of water.
Overflow provision in underground tanks
In the unfortunate situation of overflow of water in the underground tank, we design an overflow pipe to guide the extra water to the rain water harvesting tank. To protect against the reverse flow, there is an NRV (Non return valve) installed.
2 internet connections
Considering how dependent our lives are on internet connection, we provision for two internet connections. So, you can take two different internet services, one acting as a backup for the other.
200+ drawings
Detailed and comprehensive drawings running into more than 200 pages are issued for execution of work at site. Site constructs only on the basis of drawings reducing the chances of errors and misunderstanding.
Requests:
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This page explains some practices that we follow. In case, you would like to propose a better solution, please do contact us. There can be differences of opinion among people on the solutions that we have proposed.
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If there is a problem that we have not captured here, do let us know.
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Based on our experiences and future developments, we can change any of the proposed solutions. This document captures what we are doing as on date of writing.
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Specific features may be available as add-on in some products.