Commonly Used Definitions & Terminologies in Property Bazaar / Real Estate & Construction Sectors in India

Since the time this blog ( bricks-n-mortar.com ) came into existence in April 2008, we keep receiving umpteen queries pertaining to Pr...

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Maintaining your home and surroundings in the times of Covid19 lockdown

In these unfortunate times of home quarantine and prolonged lockdowns due to the unfortunate ongoing corona virus pandemic worldwide—tec...

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[Web-share]: How electricity reaches our homes

A quick shared web-knowledge bite... Came across a simplistic pictorial representation about 'Electricity Generation and T...

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About Linking of Bank account & Aadhaar card numbers with LPG Cylinder (Cooking Gas) Consumer number

This post relates to quite a many queries and mails received by us pertaining to the subject matter of this post, i.e., ...

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[TechTalk]: What are 'Cadastral maps' or 'Khasra maps' or 'Land Parcel maps'?

A number of emails, tweets and queries that come to us by different other means every now and then ask a similar question -- ...

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[Q&A]: Which bricks are good for new house construction..?

Query received from a fellow blogger (who's initialed as 'GPS') in the comments section of our previous post... Which br...

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[Tips-n-Bits]: Cleaning of Wax left-overs & Oil Stains post Diwali Celebrations & Festivities

Indians, South-East Asians and others all around the world celebrated the festival of lights- ' Deepawali ' (also called ...

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[Tips-n-Bits]: Common dos & don'ts for wash basins and their holding slabs - [Part-1/2]

Apart from being a must-have for offices, restaurants and commercial places alike, wash basins form an essential part of any household now....

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[Q&A]: What is Web Content Syndication?

Jennifer Cole ( jenn...12@...org ) asks us via BnM's feedburne r platform:  "WHAT IS WEB CONTENT SYNDICATION'? ...

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[PART-2 / 2] : Opt to Receive blog updates by 'RSS Feeds Syndication' or 'Mailbox Subscription' methods?

NOTE :- THIS POST IS THE CONCLUDING PART (PART-2  OF 2) UNDER THIS POST MESSAGE THREAD.  THOSE, NOT HAVING READ THE PART-1 OF THE POST, MAY ...

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[PART-1 / 2] : Opt to Receive blog updates by 'RSS Feeds Syndication' or 'Mailbox Subscription' methods?

NOTE:- THIS POST HAS BEEN DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS BECAUSE OF ITS LONGER CONTENT, THIS BEING THE PART-1 (OF A TOTAL OF 2 PARTS) UNDER THIS POS...

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[Q&A]: Brick Masonry work | "Why bricks be soaked in water before placing them?"

One of BRICKS-n-MORTAR's regular readers, Mr. B. Kumar asks via ' contact us ' form... "My mason soaks the bricks in wat...

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Understanding manufacturing process of Cement in simple steps

All of you must be aware how CEMENT has been the cornerstone of all the building materials worldwide. You have been seeing cement getting...

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[Readers' Q&A]: What is the difference between OPC and PPC (cements)?

Question posted by one of B-n-M's readers, Muthiah in the comments section of one of our earlier posts [Readers' Q&A]: Differ...

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[NewsOfUse]: IITK-BMTPC's Useful and Informative Series on Earthquake related Disaster Management Tips

Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council ( BMPTC ) Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, ...

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