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Spare Parts For Household Appliances From eSpares
ESpares, is an online retailer, specialising in supplying spare parts for household appliances and may be of interest to consumers in the current financial climate, enabling them to save money by repairing their broken appliances, rather than replacing them.
The company aims:
To help you find the UK’s widest selection of spare parts, consumables and accessories online; for all the electrical appliances that make your house a home; they source direct from the major manufacturers and are continually adding to their extensive library of genuine spare parts.
To offer customers savings of up to 30% off typical high street prices.
To offer levels of customer services that set the pace, for the rest of the online shopping community.
Savings example: Taking eSpares most popular washing machine replacement part the ‘drum lifter’, which agitates your clothes in the wash and lifts the dirt – this retails at £8.99.
Should you choose to buy a replacement washing machine, rather than just the part, the cheapest washing machine listed on the Argos website for example, is the Beko WM5100W retailing at £169.99, plus the cost of an engineer to install it could cost over £100.
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Keep Your Home As Pristine As A Palace
1001, the magic number for carpet and upholstery cleaning, has joined forces with Katherine Dewhurst, ex-Buckingham Palace housekeeper, to provide top tips on how to keep your carpets and soft furnishings fit for a Queen.
Follow Katherine’s hints and tips below, to make sure your home remains your castle, regardless of whether it’s a baronial pile or a suburban semi:
A technique employed in some of the most regal of residences is to use a stiff, clean outdoor brush and sweep the carpet in the opposite direction of the grain so the pile stands up straight, making it look as good as new and ready to welcome the grandest of guests.
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Give Your Home A Summer Makeover With Sandtex®
Now’s the time to get the front of your house into shape with a splash of Sandtex® colour that will set off the sunshine now, while providing excellent weather protection in the winter for many years.
Whether you opt for eye-catching shades of Silver Blue or Suffolk; earthy tones such as Terracotta and Etruscan Red, or neutral colours like Sand Dune or Light Cream, a fresh lick of paint to the exterior of your home, is one of the easiest ways to make it more attractive and welcoming.
Sandtex Exterior Masonry Paint has been designed to give tired looking exterior walls a new lease of life, whilst protecting the home from the elements with its unique Microseal® formulation; available in two alternative finishes and offers fifteen years of guaranteed protection.
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Ten Steps To Saving Money And Energy In The Home
Further to our article on Pilkington’s new energiKare glass on 10/12/07:
There follows a ten-step guide, to help you make some simple changes to your home and implement more energy efficient practices, to reduce your CO2 output. (Courtesy of the Energy Savings Trust and Pilkington Glass)
1. When replacing windows, look for those carrying the Energy Saving Trust’s Energy Saving Recommended logo along with the Pilkington energiKare™ branding ; assuring you of high levels of energy efficiency, with a quality name you know and trust.
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Evo-Stik Anti-Germ Puts The Seal On Clean
Evo-Stik has put the seal on bathroom and kitchen cleanliness with Anti-Germ, the first antibacterial tile adhesive, grout and sealant range.
Even though you clean your kitchen and bathroom surfaces rigorously, it’s impossible to get to the grime that lurks in the gaps and cracks between your tiles – unless you replace it regularly, or do a deep steam-clean – who does that?
Even worse, that pure white surface sealant you used to finish the job
becomes a breeding ground for ugly black mould and home to bacteria within days of application.
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The New Household Savers’ Guide From Together.Com
As cash-strapped consumers struggle to cope with rocketing prices and rising costs of living, Together – the UK’s largest climate campaign, has launched a new Savers’ Guide at www.together.com, which reveals easy ways for people to save money and the planet.
The new guide shows that an average UK household could save up to 3 tonnes of CO2 and up to £1,144 per year on household bills.
The savings can be made by simple everyday consumer actions, including switching to low energy light-bulbs, washing at 30 degrees, installing home insulation, switching to green energy tariffs and not upgrading mobile phones.
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Clear Your Green Conscience With Together.com
It isn’t always easy being green – whether it’s driving 20 metres to grab a pint of milk, because it’s just started raining, or sneaking up the thermostat so you can sleep with the covers off.
So have some fun this spring, by confessing all those eco-sins and lighten your conscience with The Green Confessional; you can bare all to Together.com’s online priest and have the chance to win a fantastic prize:
They are giving away a Brompton bike, cutting edge Voltaic solar backpacks and some sexy Wattson energy monitors.
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Let’s Deal With Climate Change Together
Together.com is independently approved by The Climate Group, which is an international charity dedicated to working with big business and government to help solve climate change.
Climate change can seem like an overwhelming problem, however doing something, even a small something, can help reduce emissions and your impact on the climate.
The Together Community believes that reducing emissions should be easy and have partnered with some top household brands, to produce a great range of products and ideas to help you do just that:
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The Energy Savers Report From British Gas
British Gas is commited to cutting emissions and helping their customers to be more energy efficient; they are launch partners in the ‘We’re in this Together’ campaign, which has the same aim.
Cut energy bills by up to a third, average savings of £175 and half a tonne of CO2 every year.
How does it work?
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Self Build & Renovation Show 6th To 9th March 2008
The National Self Build & Renovation Centre is to host its second Self Build & Renovation Show at the Renovation Centre, just off Junction 16 of the M4 next month, (Thursday 6th – Sunday 9th March 2008).
The show is offering a unique practical learning experience for anyone interested in building their dream home.
With a shortage of the right kind of affordable homes and uncertainty in the existing property market, ‘doing it yourself’, whether self building or renovating, to create a home that is compatible with individual lifestyles’ is becoming more appealing and is a very realistic option for many people looking to get on, or move up, the property ladder.
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