A Log Home is More Fire Resistant and More Energy Efficient

July 4th, 2011 by admin No comments »

Not only is a log home a dream house because of its beauty but such a home has serious advantages. Log structures and log homes do a lot to reduce the pollution that we face everyday. When it comes to noise pollution one should go for the log home as a log home reduces noise and sound pollution to a great degree whereas the other wooden structures like a house of timber can not do anything similar to this. A log home wall keeps sound off and at the same time creates a very comfortable situation within the home and this helps the family to be at ease with each other and thus bond.

Log walls are more fire resistant than any other wood is and this has been proved by the various studies. Therefore alot of people these days prefer log homes over timber homes. It is much less likely that a log wall will burn or catch fire very easily whereas timber can not be so fire resistant and can certainly catch fire pretty easily.

Any wooden structure has got a lot of cavities through which fire moves once it has caught one part of the wooden frame but in log structures there are no such holes or cavities within and therefore fire is unable to travel through. This is the main reason why people prefer log homes over timber homes nowadays. Whenever it comes to a home with lots of electrical cords and wires and also a kitchen where cooking goes on and wherever there is gas and gasoline there is always chance of the place catching fire. The more fire resistant the home is, the safer it is and is the first choice of a lot of people when they decide to build there dream homes.

10 Innovative Online Travel Websites

July 3rd, 2011 by admin No comments »

Traditional online travel planning and flight-booking sites like Expedia or Orbitz are still strong although their traffic is slowly lowering in relative terms compared to web based applications with a touch of Web 2.0. User generated content, social networking features, blogs, use of google maps, collaborative planning, tagging, RSS feeds and similar innovations changed the way we travel. So what are the best travel web sites

WAYN (Where Are You Now) is a social networking web site with 4 million members where you can log your trips, see who’s where or make new friends. Users are able to create a profile and upload photos, search for others and link them to their profiles as friends. Since this service is designed for travelers, members are able to search for contacts based on a particular location. Using a world map, it enables a user to visually locate where hisher contacts are situated around the world.

Wikipedia buzz has influenced also travel industry. Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide. It uses wiki model to create the guide and is built collaborative by travelers from around the world. Articles cover any level of geographic specificity, from continents to districts of a city, and wikitravel has become useful resource for travelers. Similar service is World66, which is an open content travel guide, where people from all over the planet can write about the places they love, the hotels they stayed in, or the restaurants in which they have eaten. Every part of the travel guide can be edited directly, and you can change the info you find, do a write up, add a complete city or just a bar or a restaurant. Service also generates a map of the world showing which countries you’ve traveled to in your life.