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Wind Turbine Installation and Portability Made Easy
FuturEnergy’s new Tower Kit for its 1KW wind turbine, uses easily installed ground anchors, rather than a concrete base, making installation simple and allowing the turbine to be relocated if necessary in the future.
The Tower Kit has been developed by FuturEnergy in association with Mysolarshop.co.uk, the alternative energy retailer and will retail for £450 + Vat.
The Tower Kit is exclusively intended to accommodate the popular FuturEnergy 1KW micro turbine, which is widely used in rural and off-grid locations around the UK and overseas.
Read more about : Wind Turbines
Tommy Walsh’s Online Shopping for DIYers and Tradespeople
TV DIY and gardening guru, Tommy Walsh has launched a fast and competitive shopping comparison website, with an impressive inventory of merchant contributors and a wide array of products; Tradessupermarket.com is aimed at the construction trade and DIY enthusiasts.
As the UK faces its toughest recession since the 1930s, Trades Supermarket launches at a welcome time for tradespeople and consumers, who want to find the best deals for building materials and tools, including drills, kitchens and flooring: For consumers who don’t have the skills of tradespeople, but want to ‘have a go’ – a section on-site called ‘Tommy’s Trade Secrets’ provides a portfolio of video diaries by Tommy and his friends undertaking DIY tasks. The footage provides helpful hints and tips and advises about the necessary material and tool requirements. Tommy’s Deals is another section on the site, this time dedicated to bestsellers and deals of the week and is categorised by hand-tools, powertools, work-wear and materials. In addition to listing the products of the UK’s larger and more well-known merchants including B&Q, Screwfix and Wickes, smaller independents are also included, providing an important balance of materials, tools and prices, from brands such as Makita and Ryobi.
Commenting, Tommy Walsh, said: “In Tradessupermarket.com we have a site, which not only stores a large catalogue of products, but can also be used as a resource for DIYers who need practical help at home, be it a lesson on how to plaster a wall or hang a door.
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New Wall Sconces Designed For Period Properties
The versatility and functionality of wall sconces makes them a popular lighting format; in a period property.
The dilemma is how to integrate the lighting with the soft furnishings and furniture, whilst being sympathetic to the architecture of the property.
Christopher Hyde, the classical lighting designer, has introduced twelve new wall light designs, which are inspired by key decorative eras and then adapted to modern day living and style preferences, to ensure timeless, classical appeal:
The Restoration sconces: two wall sconces featuring the lavish decorative influences of the French Court of the late 17th century. Retail prices: WL633 £2,736 (in our picture) and WL 210 £912.
Read more about : Home Interiors, Home Lighting
A Helping Hand With Assisted Living From Focus DIY
Focus DIY has launched Assisted Living – a range of practical gadgets and tools ergonomically designed to make life easier.
The 22 strong product range will help avoid strains and injuries, when tackling everyday tasks that just aren’t as easy as maybe they used to be.
With prices starting from just £1.99, these affordable, handy products will fit easily into your lifestyle.
Read more about : DIY Advice, Kitchen Accessories
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:
Read more about : DIY Advice, Garden Plants, Gardening Advice, Web Sites
Retro Is Back…and Panton’s Panthella Fits
Louis Poulsen is still producing one of Verner Panton’s greatest successes, Panthella – a lamp, which has achieved a cult-like status and fits right in with the retro trend.
Panthella is a reflection of the organic mode of expression, which is so characteristic for Verner Panton.
The lamp, which is formed like a toadstool, is a sculpture in itself.
Read more about : Home Lighting, Table Lamps
Top 10 Money & Energy Saving Tips By VPhase
With energy prices soaring and temperatures plummeting this winter, now is the perfect time to wise up on the most cost effective changes you could be making within the home.
VPhase has compiled the following Top Ten Money & Energy Saving Tips to help your home, your pocket and the environment in 2011:
1. Domestic Voltage Optimisation
Save energy, CO2 and around 10% off your electricity bills, by installing a VPhase voltage optimisation device.
Read more about : Central Heating Boilers, Condensing Boilers, Gas Boilers, Home Lighting, Web Sites
Evoke the Glamour of Yester-Year with a Decadent Chandelier
If you are looking to re-create the elegant glamour of yester-year, as seen in the new BBC dramatisation of Upstairs Downstairs, then these opulent ceiling lights from The Chandelier and Mirror Company will be right up your street.
The Zagir in our picture is a large twenty-one-light gold and Egyptian crystal chandelier that would not have been amiss in the foyer of Sir Hallam and Lady Agnes Holland’s home at 165 Eaton Place.
It would look stunning in a large hallway, or hung above a round dining table.
The Lux is a large flush-fitting ten-light chandelier, which would be perfect for a boudoir or smaller entranceway, to create a lasting impression of decadence in your home and inspire gasps of awe from anyone visiting.
Read more about : Home Lighting, Mirrors
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.
Read more about : DIY & Building, DIY Advice, Leisure
New Year New You
The New Year may mean a whole host of New Year’s resolutions for many of us, but it can also mean the start of a series of positive changes to others.
To encourage you to stick to your promises, why not ring-in the changes to create a renewed energy in your home?
A change in your surroundings can change your mood and what better time of year to do something about it…?
Read more about : Bedlinen, Bedroom Furniture, Beds, Bookcases, Childs Furniture, Contemporary Furniture, Curtain Fabric, Cushions, Home Interiors, Home Lighting, Wardrobes