Construction Methods

We are quality builder and developers and we pride ourselves on our high standard of construction. Nokta is one of the premier construction companies in North Cyprus. All our properties are built to the Turkish Cypriot Building Authority standards. Nokta Construction Properties are the only properties in North Cyprus to carry a 15 year guarantee...

Our target is to work to a 12 months completion period. Not long to wait for your dream home, finished to your own specification! We encourage our clients to be part of the process by giving them the opportunity to select ceramics, cupboards, paint colour etc. and the option for upgrade or extras. Our clients are kept up to date and are able to watch their dream come true with regular reports and photos. It is our pleasure to hand over keys to delighted new home owners who have by this stage become part of our family.

Please click on to sections below to find detailed information of our Standard Building Specifications.

1. Structure and Foundations
2. External Walls
3. Windows
4. Doors
5. Internal Walls
6. Floor and Wall Covering
7. Roof Construction
8. Water Storage
9. Staircases and Balconies
10. Stone Walls (boundary)
11. Air Conditioning
12. Electrical Points
13. Telephone and Television points
14. Paving and Pavement

Client’s selections

1. Fitted Kitchen units
2. Bedrooms
3. Bathrooms
4. Fire Place in lounge
5. Optional Extras
   • Central Heating
   • Marble Flooring
   • Granite Worktops
   • Granite Vanity Units
   • Shutters
   • Garage
   • Garden Landscaping
   • BBQ
   • Swimming pool

1. Structure and Foundations:

are laid with metal reinforced concrete and completed with an insulated concrete floor plate and damp proofed. Our vertical structures are reinforced concrete with binding.

A foundation is a structure that transfers loads to the earth. Foundations are generally broken into two categories: shallow foundations and deep foundations.

Shallow foundations

Shallow foundations are usually embedded a meter or so into soil. One common type is the spread footing which consists of strips or pads of concrete (or other materials) which extend below the frost line and transfer the weight from walls and columns to the soil or bedrock. Another common type is the slab-on-grade foundation where the weight of the building is transferred to the soil through a concrete slab placed at the surface.

Deep foundations

Deep foundations are used to transfer a load from a structure through an upper weak layer of soil to a stronger deeper layer of soil. There are different types of deep foundations including piles, drilled shafts, caissons, piers, and earth stabilized columns. The naming conventions for different types of foundations vary between different engineers. Historically, piles were wood, later steel, reinforced concrete, and pre-tensioned concrete. Sometimes these foundations penetrate bedrock.

2. External Walls:

Are a double thermal brick cavity construction with damp proof course and insulation. External walls have 6 layers of plaster and are painted (customer’s choice of colour).

An external wall finish is your first line of defence against the elements so you need to make sure that you choose wisely. If you have kept it simple and gone for a plaster finish you will need to employ a plasterer unless of course you feel 100% confident in your own abilities to do a good job yourself. A plaster finish consists of sand and cement with water proofer mixed in. In the hot or warm weather lime is usually added to this mix to slow down the drying process, or else the plaster dries too quickly making it unsecured against the block and will crack from shrinkage.

Another finish that used to be popular for years is pebble dash, cement is applied to the walls and a machine is then used to throw the pebbles at the wall embedding them into the cement. In days gone by the only reason that people used to plaster the outside of their houses or use pebble dash was to cover up the bad workmanship of the block layers but now a days people have to work to set standards so that is no longer the case.

3. Windows: our standard windows are white UPVC and double glazed.

All new and replacement windows now have to be double glazed to cut heat & cool loss. Consequently, wooden window frames have given way to PVC framed double glazing, which is the very best and modern quality.

PVC Windows have many, many different benefits and advantages over other window materials. Some of the main benefits and advantages are listed below: Low Maintenance

• No Painting
• Colour Fast
• No Rotting, Rusting or Corroding
• No Warping or Twisting
• Resists Combustion
• Insulation
• Design Capabilities
• Environmentally Friendly
• Sound & Temperature insulation
• Anti aging
• Resist impact
• Excellent water tightness and air tightness

4. Doors:

- we use Swedish solid wood front doors and American style press lacquer internal doors with importance to security (a selection of colour and designs available).

Internal doors are not just used to provide privacy to family members but they are also used to complete the internal look of one's home. There are various designs of internal and external doors that provide much wider option to customers to choose from in tune with their requirements. Latest designed internal doors are engineered to provide greater stability than traditional construction methods.

5. Internal Walls:

are a thermal hollow brick construction. Internal walls have 5 layers of plaster with a special plaster finish, coving at the ceiling and are painted (choice of colour available).

Please read the advantages of Double Brick Cavity Walls;

Advantage 1:

Double brick houses are cooler in summer:

Cool relief. That’s the feeling you get entering a double brick house on a hot summer day.

Why is it so? Dense materials such as bricks have what engineers call ‘thermal mass.’ Put simply, heavyweight building materials can absorb and store heat energy, releasing it slowly.

This is a very different quality to insulation (measured by the ‘R-value’), which is a barrier to heat. Unlike insulating materials that have little or no capacity to store heat energy, the mass of brickwork helps stabilize internal temperatures by delaying the passage of heat through the wall.

This delay is called the ‘lag time.’ The higher the level of thermal mass, the longer the lag time. A double brick cavity wall will have a lag time of up to eight hours.

Advantage 2:

Double brick houses are warmer in winter:

This is where the inner layer of brickwork comes into its own, absorbing, storing and slowly releasing heat that is generated inside the house.

In a house using passive design principles, the internal brickwork mass can also absorb the warmth of the low winter sun as it enters through large north-facing windows. As the temperature falls at the end of the day, the brickwork slowly releases the stored heat into the house.

The result is a natural level of comfort without having to constantly resort to artificial heating. Dense materials such as bricks are essential for this process to occur. Insulation has a role to play but it has no effective capacity to store and slowly release heat energy.

A concrete slab also adds to the potential thermal mass. However the ability of a slab to absorb solar energy is reduced if covered by carpet or timber. Ceramic tiles bonded to the slab in the areas struck by the sun will preserve its solar efficiency.

6. Floor Covering:

Our standard is the use of quality ceramic tiles throughout (choice of colours and size available).

Ceramic is dynamic. Its unique character, texture and nature-made material add energy, excitement and enchantment to any room.

Nokta Construction deal with several ceramic tile companies in Northern Cyprus. Which allows us to offer a large assortment of coordinating floor and wall tile looks and interesting textures. You can customize your home with unique trims and accent pieces for a truly personal touch. You can also select granite, marble, glazed or mosaics if you require an extra material.

We let you make your own design for every single room and wall.

7. Roof Construction:

we use concrete reinforced roof joists, hidrofugo board of 40mm thickness under foam insulation of polyurethane of 35kg/m and 40mm thickness and the best quality roof tiles to be used.

Roofs were probably the first structures built by man. The skill to construct a shelter enabled the primitive homo sapiens to live outside of natural protection such as caves. This might have been an inclined apparatus such as a lean-to covered in leaves which directed the water downward and away from the occupants.

8. Water Storage:

we install a 2 ton water tank with engine on the ground floor and 1 ton on the roof with energy saving solar panels and emersion. As an Extra we can also provide additional water storage underground. Underground water storage depots come in all sizes up to 15 ton. These are easily placed and out of sight. Our water tanks are made of polyethylene.

9. Staircases and Balconies - have decorative wrought iron railings where applicable.

Wrought iron railings are extremely practical and yet can give any home an elegant quality. They have been the most favoured type of railing for centuries. Wrought iron railings can be used indoors or outdoors, which makes them versatile. They can be used as terrace railings or inside your home to give an elegant appearance. Being strong and durable they will last a lifetime with minimal maintenance. The most that needs to be done is painting them every few years.

10. Stone Walls (boundary)

- are constructed to the front of our properties with attractive wrought iron gates and metal fencing to sides and rear. According to the elevation of the land and client requirement we are able to build reinforced retaining walls, traditional stone walls, wrought iron fences.

11. Air Conditioning

- points are available in all rooms their location to be discussed between client and our internal architect.

• Cools, circulates, filters and dehumidifies the air.
• Ranges in size from small units with a cooling capacity of 9,000 BTUs (enough to cool a small room) to capacities as high as 12,500 BTUs.
• It is important that customers carefully choose the right size of air conditioner. An oversize unit will cool but leave a damp and clammy feeling because of high relative humidity. An undersize unit
• will not operate effectively on very hot days.
• Select by BTU rating, not horsepower. BTU is the actual cooling capacity of the unit.
• Determine the efficiency of the unit by dividing the watt rating into the BTU output. The unit must have an energy efficiency rating (EER) of at least 9.7 for models under 8,000 BTU/hr and 9.8 for larger models. The most efficient models have an EER of 11 and higher. Each model should have its EER clearly marked.

12. Electrical Points - each room has a minimum of 5 sockets their location to be discussed between client and our internal architect. All our electrical sockets are imported from the UK.

13. Telephone and Television - infrastructure is installed into every property their location to be discussed between client and our internal architect.

Our Clients play an important role in the construction of our properties with their selections helping us to make their property their dream home.

Client’s selections

When you purchase home design plans from a designer or an architect, you will receive a suggested list of building materials for your new home. Generally included in the home plans is a list of items such as suggested framing materials, kitchen cupboard materials & colours, bedroom wardrobes materials & colours, door & window designs & colours, flooring materials design & colours, electrical points in whole house and many more options. Also, most of the time a set of home plans will come with a list of these materials accompanied by the quantity necessary to make your dream home a reality.

Home plans generally are accompanied by many sections of construction specifications for your contractor. The specifications will include information used by the contractor to build your new home.

Keep in mind that the materials selection sheet must include every material used in the construction of your new home. It will detail the estimated number of wires necessary to provide electricity. It will also contain an estimate for the number of nails, screws and other fasteners. Do not be alarmed upon seeing the size and extent of the document, and be sure to contact the architect or designer of your plans should any concerns arise after discussing the materials selection with your contractor or builder.

14. Fitted Kitchen units – we have a selection of quality cupboard types, laminate worktops, colours and tiles.

15. Bedrooms – all bedrooms have fitted wardrobes with a choice of finish and colour.

16. Bathrooms – have fully fitted sanitary ware and are tiled floor to ceiling with client’s choice of tiles

17. Fire Place in lounge – are clients are given a choice of marble or stone finish.

Optional Extras

Nokta Construction Company in North Cyprus is confident that you will be delighted with a property built to our standard specification but like to give our clients the opportunity for upgrades or extras for those special touches or extended luxury. Our standard features are extensive. Features that are often included as optional extras by our competitors are included in our builds. (please see a selection of our extra specifications)

• Central Heating
• Marble Flooring
• Granite Worktops
• Granite Vanity Units
• Shutters
• Garage
• Garden Landscaping
• BBQ
• Swimming pool
• Garage