Aerocretos de Mexico

Your Yucatan Design, Build and Renovation Specialists

Category: Advice

  • Ever look inside your Pipes ?

    If you have a squeamish stomach, stop reading here. But maybe your stomach gets upset from the water in your home. I realize most people don’t drink house water in the Yucatan or the rest of Mexico, for that matter. But a lot of people do brush teeth in it, bet you won’t when you…

  • Concrete always cracks

    We often, hear complaints from a variety of sources, saying the concrete on counters, walls or floors has cracked. The answer is yes, it cracks and in most cases it cannot be helped. If for example, you raise a block wall from 4 feet to 6 feet, the majority of the time a crack will…

  • Tinacos, Cisterns and city water.

    We often get calls from customers, that go something like this. “My tinaco is over flowing”, “My tinaco is dry” “do I need a cistern” or “the city water is not constant and does not fill my cistern or tinaco”. It is obvious that a lot of people in the Yucatan do not understand how…

  • SARRO, coming soon to a waterline near you!

    If you have spent any time in the Yucatan, you have heard the word SARRO, probably in a combination of swear words. Sarro is to water systems, as cholesterol is to arteries, it plugs them up. Lets start with the basics, Sarro is simply a calcium deposit, also called scale in Canada or the USA. It…

  • Water heater stopped working, maybe it is a 50 peso fix.

    I received a call the other day from some good clients of ours. They have guests arriving and when they went to turn on the water heater, for that part of the house, it lit once and went out and would not relight. They needed to fix or replace it ASAP or the guests would be…

  • Know your proposed budget.

    Quite often we are asked for suggestions on a particular project. While we have always got some great ideas, we also need to know your budget for the project. There is no point in any contractor coming up with a design plan, only to be told it is too expensive. It is much better to…

  • Our latest project at night.

    Simply night and day

  • Damaged paint on mamposteria or block walls.

    There has been lots of discussion lately on expat forums, about the damage that occurs to paint coatings in the Yucatan. This damage can usually be seen in the bottom 1/3 of the walls. Peeling paint, plaster falling off or even fungus or mould growing are all symptoms of the same issue, water in the…

  • Roofs of the Yucatan

    There seems to be a lot of confusion when it comes to roofs in the Yucatan. There are basically 4 types of common roofs here, they are Palapa, Mamposteria, Loza and Viga with Bovedillas. All have their benefits and draw backs and I will go through each type, but the one thing they all have…