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Cosy, Original and Stylish Interior Decor From ORAC
Established in 1970, Orac a Belgian family business, has become a leader in high quality products in plastic for interior decoration.
Their range is broad and complete including, different mouldings, ornaments such as ceiling medallions, pilasters, columns, skirting, niches, garlands, pediments, windowsills, wainscoting and decorative lighting – in short, everything to give your house a new look in no time.
With an extensive range of synthetic mouldings and ornaments, the interior decor specialist ORAC offers a wealth of ideas:
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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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Louis Poulsen’s 50th Anniversary Gold For PH Artichoke
Louis Poulsen is celebrating the 50th Anniversary, of the PH Artichoke by offering 50 units of the largest light fixture, with leaves gilded in 24-carat gold.
PH Artichoke is one of the world’s foremost icons of design and lighting; for over 50 years, the pendant with the botanical name has impressed its audience by its sculptural, organic design, clarified simplicity and warm, glare free light.
PH Artichoke manifests an ingenious design – bordering on art – completely justifying the gold finish and it’s set to become a collector’s item, as Louis Poulsen will only manufacture a numbered limited edition of 50 fixtures.
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Griffin Glasshouses At Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
With five family members working within the company, Griffin Glasshouses can truly claim to be a family business; they have been designing made to measure glasshouses and greenhouses of distinction, since the early 1960s, so you can be reassured by their wealth of experience and expertise.
To see these wonderful glasshouses first hand, visit their stand at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – 8th to 13th July.
You will find Griffin Glasshouses at stand C46, where they will be launching their new glazing bar and new shape cap on their Victorian style lean-to glasshouses.
Read more about : Building Services, Garden Rooms
Transparent Architecture Online From CANTIFIX
CANTIFIX the award winning specialists in glass structures, now offer a superb range of products, along with comprehensive advice, and a help guide, from it’s easy to navigate on-line shop.
Whether you are looking for folding doors, sliding doors, hinged doors, windows, glass roofs or glass floors, a visit to their new website will both inspire and inform you.
The featured glass floor has been engineered to allow people to walk and stand on it.
These floors are both practical and stylish and permit light to be transferred between floors in your home, without restricting the floor space.
The glass floor is available in either clear, sandblasted or low iron glass.
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MyHammer Launches New Trades & Services Portal
Building on its success as the market leader in Germany, MyHammer means to revolutionise the UK trade services market and has now launched its interactive website, which aims to take the hassle out of home improvement, for consumers.
From putting up shelves to fitting a whole new kitchen, MyHammer offers a one-stop-shop for any home improvement job.
Through its approval process, users are assured in the knowledge that all tradesmen’s qualifications are verified, and the customer feedback mechanism provides further reassurance, when selecting the right tradesman for the job.
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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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