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4 Simple Ways To Maintain Your Decorative Concrete Floors
With a wide variety of concrete pavers to choose from, including different shapes, thickness, and colours, decorative concrete floors are a beautiful addition to any home or public space. Once you have invested in decorative concrete floors, you will not be surprised to find that they will need maintenance in order to keep them looking…
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Things To Consider About Hot Weather Concreting
Hot weather concreting can bring a large number of issues that could be detrimental to the construction of a building, we have provided a list of both challenges and precautions for you to try and combat this. The Challenges Of Hot Weather Concreting Concreting in hot weather comes along with many challenges which can all…
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Reduce Your Costs With These 5 Energy-Efficient Building Upgrades
Energy-efficient buildings might seem like a niche fad but there are plenty of ways that making small (or larger) changes can have a big impact on your monthly costs and on your carbon footprint. Whether it’s a domestic building or office space we’ve put together a short list of ways you can cut your costs…
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What Are The Pros & Cons Of Prefabricated Construction?
Prefabricated construction is quickly becoming more popular and less of a niche product. It focuses on minimising the risk to self-builders by allowing the structure of the house to be built off-site under controlled conditions. By removing a lot of the outside influences and allowing the construction to happen in the warm and dry the…
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The Different Types & Uses Of Construction Sealants
In modern construction and renovation, there are numerous different types of construction sealants and each possesses its own specific strengths and weaknesses. With the increasingly widespread use of different styles of cladding on modern buildings, construction sealants are used to provide air and weather seals while still accommodating building movement through thermal expansion, settlement, or…
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The 4 Best Places For Expat Families To Rent In Bahrain
Moving to Bahrain with a young family is a position a lot of foreign professionals finding themselves in. Around half of Bahrain’s population are expats, owing in part to the huge influx of foreign nationals who work in the financial institutions that the country is famous for. The high quantity of foreign workers who have…
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What’s The Difference Between Plain Concrete & Reinforced Concrete?
Concrete is the most widely used material worldwide for construction and has been for centuries. As society has progressed, so too have the building materials we use and that has led to quite a bit of variety in term of the types of concrete we now have available. The most common two are plain concrete…
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Interlock Paving Vs. Stamped Concrete: The Pros & Cons
The Al Manaratain sales team are often asked which style of the driveway we recommend out of interlock pavers or stamped concrete and it’s always a difficult question to answer. Both options have a long list of pros and cons as well as areas that they excel over the other. Depending on the project you…
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Al Manaratain Celebrate Bahrain National Day 2019 With A Special Offer
To celebrate Bahrain National Day 2019 and the opening of the new Al Manaratain block factory in Hidd, we are offering discounted rates on several concrete block products Based in the Salman industrial area on Moharaqu island, our new Block Factory will allow us to reach more of our customers more directly and efficiently, cutting…
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