Marble vs Vitrified Tiles

Before we compare marble with Vitrified Tiles, lets find what is happening with marble.

How is the quality of Marble over last few years. Is it getting better?

We get good marble only the Makrana. white marble is less in market now a days because this type of Marble they are mining it since years now. So good quality of this type is less. Only after Marble is been Mined and brought out on surface, you come to know it’s quality.

What is Italian Marble?

Home Renovation Tips for Flooring

Once again one of our reader asked about “home renovation tips for flooring in Pune“. We answered below points. Below points are applicable for any city or town across India. Except for labour cost rest of the items should not vary.

So you need to get flooring of your home renovated or repaired or replace

What are important things to check before hiring Contractor for flooring ?
Do you really need Interior Designer ?

Cost of Renovating Kitchen in Mumbai or Pune

When we talk about Kitchen Renovation in city like Mumbai Pune Bangalore or any other big city of India, the biggest expense n most cases is of Kitchen Platform.

Lets say you want to replace complete Kitchen Platform. There is Trolley inside that also gets replaced in such cases. Then you have to manage Cooking Range, Chimney arrangement. So there are these and many such items inside Kitchen that either gets partly repaired or completely replaced.

Cost of Home Renovation in Rupees Per sq ft

It depends a lot on requirement and situation of Home. For example, a Home Owner might decide to get POP ( Plaster of Paris) instead of normal Ceiling. Aluminum Window inside home could be simple of Painted with Powder Coated & Anodized Surfaces. So there is always more then one way of doing things.

Home Renovation in Pune

We spoke to Govind Parmar (Civil Contractor in Pune) about topics like:

1) Repairing Home as per Vastu Shastra
2) Quantity vs Quality
3) Vitrified Tiles

Here’s what he shared:

Any important suggestion you want to share with respect to Vastu Shastra for Interior designer or Decorator?
vastu Shahstra is too much in trend now-days. Everyone wants to implement it. Now one thing to keep in mind is purpose of Vastu Shastra – that is – Peace and Harmony.

Interview with Jignesh Chotalia, Civil Contractor and Consultant, Mumbai

Tell me about your career journey in Home Renovation Industry?
I was born and raised in small Village in Gujarat. after i passed  SSC exam, I moved to Mumbai and started working in business of Construction. I started as Helper, then mason work and later became Civil Contractor. I have been working as Contractor for last eight years now.  I take projects of all types – right from a typical 1 BHK or 1 room kitchen – up to complete new buildings.