What products are safe to use when cleaning your upholstery?
Whether it’s a red wine stain, or a year’s worth of grease and grime, there comes a point where your sofa or chairs will need cleaning. However, not all cleaning products are safe to use on your upholstery and understanding exactly what can and can’t be used for upholstery cleaning is crucial if you want to avoid permanently damaging the fabric. Many shops sell cleaners which are suitable for use on most fabrics. The following natural...
Drain Jetting To Clear Blockages
A new way to clear drains Drain jetting is an effective way to clear drains, using a high pressure water hose to remove tough blockages. If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to experience a blocked drain, you know how unpleasant and inconvenient it can be, often resulting in dirty sewage water flooding your home. Clearing blockages from a drain can be a difficult and messy affair, particularly if the cause of the blockage is some way...
What to Do If Your Home Floods
Act Fast to Minimise Damage and Loss Water can cause untold damage to property, yet we all have to deal with a flood from time to time. Water – giver of life, quencher of thirst and destroyer of property. Every one of us lives in a home that is literally surrounded by water straining at plastic or copper pipes at high pressure. We also live in a country that is famed for its unpredictable weather and the potential for a year’s...
Keep Your Wardrobe Mould Free This Winter
Use a Wardrobe Heater to Keep Mould at Bay Mould can cause irreparable damage to clothes and belongings, and left unattended can also lead to serious health problems. As winter creeps ever closer, homeowners across the country are battening down the hatches and getting ready for the cold months ahead. Most of us think of the obvious things such as getting the boiler serviced and ensuring the oil tank is topped up, but there are also...
Autumn Allergy? It Could Be Mould and Dust
Deep Clean Your Home To Banish Symptoms If you’re coughing and sneezing while spending time indoors, you could be suffering from a common allergic reaction. We associate allergies with spring, when hayfever strikes people all over the UK. It’s not just during the warmer months that people suffer from allergies. As you spend more time indoors this winter, you may find that you’re exhibiting a few strange symptoms. There’s no need to...
Thinking of removing a Load Bearing Wall? Read this first!
If you’re thinking of making some alterations to the structure of your property which will involve removing walls, you’ll definitely need to know which ones are load bearing before you start. Load bearing walls support the structural weight of a building unlike their counterparts, curtain walls (or non-load bearing walls) which divide areas into rooms but don’t bear the building’s weight. Why is...