Home Repairs
By Pouya Bostani DIY • General • Home Improvement • Tips and Tricks 0 Comments

TOP 5 HOME REPAIRS YOU SHOULD NEVER DO YOURSELF

We all know the hassle of something breaking in our home. The headache that comes with looking for a professional to have it fixed is no joke. It might be tempting to do it ourselves with the help of the internet, and there are certain home repairs that an enthusiastic amateur can handle on their own, it is better to leave the complicated stuff to the professionals. Not only is it dangerous to deal with a major problem by yourself, it can cause grievous injuries if done wrong, but you might make the situation worse by not calling for skilled help. So with this in mind, here are a few home repairs that you should never do on your own.

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Home Improvement Tips and Tricks

While everyone wants his or her home to be perfect, you may not know exactly where to start. What can you renovate or improve to achieve this? What room requires your attention the most? Can you even afford to change anything?

This article is here to shed some light on some home improvement tips and tricks that will do wonders for your house. Wouldn’t you want your home to be look and feel at the peak of comfort? This does not need to break your bank, and nor is it as hard as you may think. Continue reading for more information.

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Steps for Converting a House into a Senior Friendly Home

It’s not something you want to think about, but there will come a time when your parents or your own home needs some modification. It’s a fact of life that we all get older and can’t do many of the things we’d always taken for granted. Getting upstairs, reaching high cupboards, negotiating steps, bathing and keeping the home clean can get increasingly more difficult as we get older. In a perfect world, we’d all be living in a single storey home with no front step or a mansion with a functioning elevator and someone to push us around. Unfortunately, the perfect life does not exist, so you have to look for ways to make your home as safe and convenient as possible. Here are some tips to help you make your home more senior friendly.

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5 Ways to Enhance the Exterior of Your Home

The idea of improving the exterior of your home can seem intimidating to many. This might be in part due to the fact that re-painting the outside of a home can involve more ladder work, hiring contractors to do dangerous and technical changes and maybe even getting a little bit muddy. While it might not necessarily be as easy as changing a light shade or replacing a sofa, it is still an incredibly worthwhile endeavour for the kerb value of your property.

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Important Areas Of the House To Remember

3 Important Areas Of the House To Remember

Sometimes, it’s easy to find yourself focusing heavily on one particular area of your home and, subsequently, not showing enough attention to another. Doing this, however, could prove dangerous to you, your family, and your wallet. By, say, focusing all of your attention on changing the way you living room looks instead of ensuring that your roof hasn’t been comprised by recent rainfall, you could quite easily come home one day to find that your celling has caved in.

Quite simply, it is essential that you spread your focus across the length and breadth of your home. When you do, make sure to pay extra attention to the following three all-important areas.

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How to Ensure Your Building Project is Successful

Building your own home, renovating an old building, or simply extending your property are all great ways to get the home you want, and if you manage the project well, you can often get far more for your money than you would if you tried to buy a house. That being said, it’s no small task managing a building project – even a fairly modest one – and it can take up a great deal of time and be quite stressful at times.

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Tips for Keeping Your Conservatory Cool This Summer

Are you listening to the winds howling around the house and longing for warmer days ahead? With spring now well under way, it won’t be long before the hot, sunny summer days are here – or at least, that’s what you hope! If this summer is anything like last year, we’re in for another scorcher, and as pleasant as that prospect sounds right now, when your conservatory is so hot you can’t go in it, you’ll be wishing you’d been better prepared.

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How Do Double Glazed Windows Work? A Brief Guide

We all know that double glazing is more energy efficient than single glazing. And we all know that there are two panes of glass involved. But what about the science behind why double glazing is so much better than single glazing? What’s in between the panes of glass? How do double glazed windows work? Let us explain…

First of all, when we talk about double glazing, we are referring to sealed window units that contain two panes of glass within the frame.

Adding an extra, single pane of glass in front of an existing window is called secondary glazing and although doing this will carry many of the benefits of a double glazed window, this is not what we’re interested in in this article.

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Conservatory Too Cold in the Winter? Find out Why and How to Fix It

Is your conservatory too cold in the winter months? Do you find yourself closing it off from around November until it warms up again in April? We look at why this happens and what you can do to improve your space and make it a true year-round part of the house.

Time and again we hear the same thing: “My conservatory is too cold in the winter.” Sometimes, we also hear, “My conservatory is too hot in the summer.” In this blog post, since the weather’s not so great outside, we will focus on the cold months and what you can do to make your conservatory a space you can use during the winter.

Conservatories are wonderful spaces where you can experience the openness of the outdoors from within the comfort of your home. In theory, this should be the case throughout the year.

But all too often, the conservatory becomes a no-go area when the temperature outside drops.

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What To Look For In A Roofing Contractor

Making improvements to your home is a costly and significant investment on your end. This is why it’s so important to take the necessary steps to ensure you’re hiring the right person for the job.

There are certain qualities and requirements you’re going to want to look for in a roofing contractor before you hire someone to complete your desired house project. Do your homework up front and you’ll run into fewer complications or issues throughout the process. Use the following tips to help guide you to making wiser decisions and feeling more confident going with the person who you choose at the end of your research.

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