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The Latest Lighting Solutions Add Style And Value To Your Home
Looking for interior lighting to add style and value to your home? Then look no further, as UK based Ace Lamps provide a bright new collection of stunning home lighting solutions.
This company offers a large and varied selection of modern, contemporary and traditional lighting fixtures that will give the finishing decorative touch to the interior of any home.
Ace Lamps is a family run business selling home and garden lighting; they are also specialists in the latest contemporary LED lighting and their exclusive collection is available online.
Read more about : Garden Lights, Home Interiors, Home Lighting, Table Lamps
The New Definitive Information Website – AboutUnderfloorHeating
If you are considering installing Underfloor Heating and looking for the best possible information and its suitability for your property. Then you will be delighted to know that Excelsior Information Systems (the owner of UK Home Ideas) has now launched www.AboutUnderfloorHeating.co.uk.
The website offers a wealth of in depth information, to provide solutions to your queries, so that you are not only well equipped to select the best system for your property, but also to achieve the best deal for this very significant
Once you start doing research on the web, you’re likely to discover, as Excelsior did, that there is very little independent first-class information and advice on the subject out there.
Read more about : Building Services, Underfloor Heating, Web Sites
How To Cut Your Lighting Bills By Up To 75%
How would you like to cut your lighting bills by as much as 75%, yet still have an attractive lighting scheme.
Here are some tips from Sally Storey, (Design Director at John Cullen – Britain’s leading lighting company) to help you avoid possible pitfalls.
If you are thinking of redecorating, then now is the best and cheapest time to install more efficient lighting before you start.
Read more about : Garden Lights, Home Interiors, Home Lighting
Clean Your Carpets Without The Hastle
The new Rapide Ultra 2 carpet cleaner from leading UK floor care brand Vax, is able to achieve spotless carpets in just 20 minutes, with its deep cleaning, quick drying technologies.
An average front room takes just 20 minutes to wash, and is dry enough to walk on again within an hour or two.
Cleaning your carpets can seem like an enormous job that you never quite have time to do. Therefore it’s no real surprise that recent research by Vax, revealed that over half of UK parents let their kids crawl and play on carpets that are never washed.*
Read more about : DIY Advice, Home Interiors, Kitchen Accessories
Top Tips For Weatherproofing Your Home For Winter
NHBC, the UK’s leading warranty provider and standards setting body for new build homes, is offering the following tips to keep your home watertight and draught free for the coming winter:
There are many things we can and should do to protect our homes from the effects of harsh weather and good planning also helps to reduce maintenance and utility costs.
Gutters: Gutters should be cleaned out at least once a year to remove leaves and debris. Wet patches on the walls below (both external and internal) may indicate that gutters or downpipes are blocked.
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Yale’s Christmas Home Security Tips
Would be thieves are well aware that we all have lots of high value presents in our homes during the festive period and they do their utmost to take advantage.
So Yale are offering some seasonal security advice, to help keep your gifts safe from surprise visitors, other than Santa Claus:
Alarm Systems
It’s important that your home is protected while you’re out visiting family and friends or away on holiday, therefore a security alarm can act as a crucial visual deterrent and will alert neighbours when activated by burglars.
60% of burglaries attempted on homes fitted with an alarm are unsuccessful – Yale’s wirefree alarm kits are quick and easy to install, and offer discreet protection for all types of properties.
Read more about : Burglar Alarms, DIY Advice, Security Services, Wireless Alarm Systems
Kandabi Creates A Desired Atmosphere In A Given Space.
Kandabi is a lighting design studio in Edinburgh, specialising in mood lighting, just right for those wishing to make a space statement in home lighting.
Mood lighting is a term now widely accepted in the interiors world inspired by cinematography:
Just as in film production, it involves the composition of a scene and addition of special effects, to achieve the images desired by the director – so mood lighting for interiors is a critical lighting layer used to create a desired atmosphere in a given space.
Read more about : Home Interiors, Home Lighting
The 40W Household Bulb Is About To Get Better
Last year IKEA launched, LEDARE (meaning ‘leader’) light bulbs, which are made with Light Emitting Diode technology, which use up to 85% less energy than incandescent bulbs.
Now the company has created an LED bulb that looks just like the old light bulbs we know so well: This reduced usage makes a marked difference on electricity consumption and if you save energy, you save both your own money and the earth’s resources. If you decide to replace your bulbs with the new LEDARE E27 8W bulbs, it’s estimated that you won’t have to replace them again for another 20 years. That’s a long time, but it also means big savings! IKEA believe that high prices shouldn’t put you off saving resources, therefore, they are offering the LED 8W bulbs at the lowest price in the market at £10.99 each.
LED lighting also has great benefits such as, energy efficiency, longer lifetime, mercury free, instant start-up, natural colours and of course better design.
Read more about : Home Lighting
Versatile New HandyCutâ„¢ DIY Tool From Worx Icon
Introducing the compact and lightweight HandyCutâ„¢ DIY tool from Worx Icon, which is half the size of standard models, making it a resourceful and desirable tool for dealing with tasks in tight spots easily: The protective blade guard automatically lowers, to enclose the blade for increased safety once cutting is completed. With four interchangeable blades, the HandyCut slices easily through materials such as floorboards, tiles, plastics, wood, aluminium and more, all without the need for another tool. Laser guide technology projects a sharp laser to ensure total precision when sawing and an adjustable gauge lets you control the depth of the cut at the flick of a switch. The blade depth varies up to 22mm, making it easily the best tool for cutting out kitchen surfaces and other plunge cutting tasks in the home.
So forget frightening and bulky circular saws and treat yourself to the versatile Worx HandyCut tool, available exclusively from B&Q. Priced at £99.99.
About Worx Icon – Worx Icon is the latest innovative range from power tools brand, Worx. This multi-use range, offers powerful performance, whilst being ultra-lightweight, incredibly versatile and, in some cases, unbelievably compact.
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Sturdy British Made Garden Wood Stores
Wood burning stoves and open fires are making a comeback, due to concerns about ever increasing energy prices and people looking for more eco friendly ways to heat their homes.
Wood burning stoves in particular, are more environmentally friendly and cheaper than regular heating methods, especially if you season and prepare the wood yourself:
Slow burning and smokeless fuel is produced when wood is allowed to dry naturally and weathered over time.
Read more about : DIY Advice, Garden Sheds, Wood Burning Stoves