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DIY Advice
Garden On A Roll® – The Latest Concept
Garden on a Roll® offers to bring an attractive garden border within the reach of every household. It is ideal for those with no gardening skills, no plant knowledge and no desire or time for gardening.
It eliminates the need to research suitable plants for your garden and as close to providing an instant garden as possible. After planting, it’s just a matter of watering, feeding and pruning.
Garden on a Roll enables homeowners and new home-builders, schools and business premises, to order ready planned, personally designed borders by the metre:
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Dremel’s New Modular Accessory System
Dremel, the best-selling multi-tool supplier, has launched a Modular Accessory System of five different kits. Each kit is filled with high quality Dremel accessories and/or attachments, perfect for hobby, DIY or crafting tasks – whether it’s engraving, grinding, polishing, cutting or sanding.
Each of the five kits is unique in its contents and comes with internal dividers to create separate compartments for organised storage.
Due to their modular set up, the kits can be stacked and connected to each other, using a ‘smart click’ system, to create an accessory storage tower – saving space on your worktop.
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Security Specialist Yale Launches ‘Yale Security TV’
Yale has added a new section to its website, offering ‘how to videos’ that show consumers how easy it is to replace or update their home security products.
Available on their website, Yale SecurityTV features informative and educational videos on a range of Yale products: Including how to change a Yale euro-profile cylinder, and how to install a Yale replacement PVCu handle. Videos showing how to replace a Yale nightlatch and how to upgrade to a British Standard rim cylinder will be coming soon. The videos form part of a new campaign that will see Yale products promoted to security conscious homeowners over the next few months.
Caroline Martin, Marketing Manager for Yale, says: “Consumers are watching two billion videos a day on YouTube and the growing trend for smart phones, also means it’s easier for homeowners to watch ‘how to’ videos on their mobiles, if they need installation help in the middle of a DIY project at home.
Read more about : Burglar Alarms, DIY Advice, Security Services, Wireless Alarm Systems
Simple Steps For A More Eco-Friendly Home
According to a recent Mintel study, going green and being more eco friendly is becoming a priority in many UK households.
The latest report revealed that almost six in ten adults in the UK aged 25+, claim to be more aware of their effect on the environment, and feel that they have a duty to protect it (2010).
There is no escaping the fact that the way we live our lives is having a big impact on the environment and slowly but surely, people are starting to do what they can, in a bid to combat high energy bills and global warming.
A few simple changes can go a long way and like charity, going green begins at home.
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Greenstamp’s New Mini Heatkeeper Radiator Panels
One of our biggest household expenditures during the winter months is central heating, and with increased prices, plus the threat of gas shortages, why not use radiator panels to get the most from your radiators, and even enable you to turn them down?
Radiator Panels fitted to the wall behind the radiator make use of the heat that conventional radiators waste, by reflecting the heat being radiated to the wall and bouncing it back into the room, which can save up to 20% off heating bills.
Heatkeeper Radiator Panels are quickly and easily fitted behind existing radiators – normally without removing them – giving instant results:
Read more about : Central Heating Radiators, DIY Advice, Heating & Fireplaces, Web Sites
Christmas Gifts for the DIY or Hobby Enthusiast
If you have a DIY or hobby enthusiast in your family, then Dremel will solve all your Christmas present dilemmas this year!
The Dremel 300 Series multi-tool is at the heart of the Dremel range – and both of the specially-packaged seasonal gift items have this tool at the centre of their offering.
The first idea is a high value Christmas Gift Box containing the Dremel 300, a Flexshaft and a new Modular Accessory Set that provides the ultimate storage system – packed with 100 high quality accessories, including the fast-change SpeedClic.
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Beat the Snow This Winter With the Award-Winning ‘Snow Wovel’
Last winters heavy snow fall saw millions of UK households unable to clear their paths and driveways for many days and even weeks.
Apart from the immense inconvenience caused, the snow was also directly responsible for a record number of falls and accidents.
Now, as meteorologists predict another winter in which high levels of snow are likely, the UK launch of an innovative and award-winning snow shovel, the ‘Sno Wovel’ comes as a timely godsend.
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Create Your Own Scary Halloween Mask
Celebrate Halloween by creating fun masks for your children to wear to their Halloween parties – or when they are out Trick or Treating:
Step One
Take newspaper fragments watered down with PVA glue and build up several layers onto the balloon surface and leave until thoroughly dry and hard.
Step Two
Using the Dremel Stylus with SpeedClic cutting disc SC476, trim around the edge of the mask
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Preparing Your Conservatory For Winter
The winter months provide the perfect opportunity to bring fresh life to your conservatory.
It’s also time to perform a few maintenance tasks to prolong its longevity and pristine appearance.
Jonathan Hey, MD of Westbury Conservatories shares his top tips for extending the enjoyment of your conservatory throughout the winter months…..
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Prepare Like A Pro For Decorating With Polycell
We all like our homes to look nice and have grand plans for decorating, even having already decided on the colour of paint for the walls.
But dealing with problems such a stained ceiling, uneven walls or holes in the plastering, can often mean that the fun part of decorating is put off to another day.
Polycell can show you how to easily deal with these problems with a series of easy-to-follow videos, showing you how to get walls and ceilings in tip top shape ready for decorating:
Read more about : DIY Advice, Paints