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Home Management Paper 2, Nov/Dec. 2010  
Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Main
General Comments
Weakness/Remedies
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Question 6

Describe any four features of a modern house.

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Observation

In the question on features of a modern house. The candidates were writing that a modem house is built in a good soil, usually well ventilated, beautiful etc instead of the ways the windows, floors, and doors are treated in a modem home. The required answers to the questions are as follows:
(a) Features of a Modem house
The walls: They are constructed with concrete block or wood. They are either plastered and/or painted.
The roof: The roof of a modern house is built with any of the following corrugated iron sheets, cement, tiles and asbestos. The roof is then ceiled. The ceiling can be made of plaster of paris, Painted or lacquered wood.
The floor: The floors can be finished with concrete, wood, vinyil, tiles, terrazzo or marble. They can be covered with rugs, carpets, linoleum or mats.
The rooms: A modern house usually has the following rooms; the sitting room, dinning, kitchen, bed rooms, toilet and bathroom. Some may have visitors' room and study.
Windows and Doors: The modem house has doors made of wood and steel frames with glass panes. Windows may be finished with louver blades or sliding glass panels. Metal burglary proof bars may be fitted for security purposes. Mosquito nets are also fitted to prevent the entrance of insects.

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