I’m lucky enough to have family living very close to Chester which means that over the years I have had many opportunities to wander around one of the most beautiful and interesting towns in Cheshire. If you are ever in the region of Cheshire, Chester is a town that you must visit. The town dates…
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Suggestions For Home Improvement Plans
Read moreThe home is a funny place sometimes; there are those occasions that you just want to sit and enjoy the roof above your head and others where you need to tear it all apart and start from scratch. That feeling tends to crop up at this time of year as the move towards a bit…
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Giving The Girls Bedroom A Facelift With New Duvet Covers
Read moreWe live in a two bedroom bungalow, we have one bedroom and our seven year twin girls share a bedroom. A perfect arrangement you would think. Well not quite! Our twin girls are total opposites when it comes to their tastes and interests. In fact I call them my Superhero and Princess because of their…
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Cleaning Up After The Builders Have Gone
Read moreThe cost of moving home or upgrading to a larger home can be very expensive. There are many reasons why people need to upsize. Perhaps because you need more room such as an extra bedroom etc. Whatever you decide it can be very expensive. Sometimes you may not want to move away from the area…
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How to reduce the risk of burglaries.
Read more#AD. In the interest of disclosure and transparency, the syndication of this article has been provided and paid for by FBD Insurance There is no doubt that having your home burgled is a very distressing experience. That is why FBD Insurance have prepared a few simple a few simple steps that can help protect your…
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How to Know When It is Time to Re-Paint a Room
Read moreWhen you are a homeowner there is always work that can be done on the house. One of the areas which often needs attention is the walls – these play a huge role in how the entire home both looks and feels so you will want them to look their best add to the aesthetic.…
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5 Reasons You Should Get Your Boiler Serviced Regularly
Read moreRunning a household can be a complicated and demanding job. There always seems to be a job that needs doing or some DIY maintenance that you keep meaning to get around to. Getting our boiler serviced is one of those things we keep meaning to do but it just never seems to happen. While getting…
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Protecting Your Property as Best Possible
Read moreThe average person works eight hours a day, five days a week. There’s a reason for this. We want to provide ourselves and our loved ones with a good quality of life. We want a roof over our heads, we want to be comfortable and safe, and we want to surround ourselves with lovely things…
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Tips On Treating Your Garden With A Makeover
Read moreWhen it comes to the garden, many households can have a love/hate relationship with it. Unless you have a passion for gardening, it can seem like a constant struggle to keep your outdoor space looking nice all year round. So here are some useful tips on treating your garden with a makeover. Some gardens can…
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Great Shopify Apps & Add-Ons to Consider
Read moreThere are many ecommerce platforms on the market, but Shopify is an extremely flexible option. What is an ecommerce business? According to Shopify, it is an online retail store that ships physical merchandise in exchange for customer payments and data transferred digitally. To make this process easier for store owners, Shopify features many add-ons to…
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4 Easy Ways to Give Your Home a Facelift
Read moreImage source Your home’s exterior is the first thing people see. It is what will give them that all-important first impression of your home and family, and first impressions tend to stick. Take a long hard look at the front of your house and if it is looks as though it may need some TLC,…
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Things To Consider When Buying a New Bed #AD
Read moreGetting a good, well rested eight hours of sleep is so important in order to feel wide awake enough to deal with the trials and tribulations of daily life. This can be exhausting if you have young children like I do. I’m a dad of five which includes six year old twins. There is no…
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Keeping Your Home Cosy And Warm During
Read moreIt seems that our winters are getting colder year on year and it really is not unusual for temperatures to drop well below freezing on a regular basis. It also pretty common now to have snow right across the country every year. When I get home from work all I want is to walk into…
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It’s Time To Buy Some New Furniture For Our Home
Read moreOur twin girls turn seven years old very soon and looking around our home, it has become apparent that our furniture has started to look very worn out and tired. The dining room table, coffee table, sofa and sideboard have now been completely personalised by the girls with crayons, felt-tips and more paint than I…
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What is Social Housing?
Read morePretty much everybody has heard the term ‘social housing’ used, however many people don’t really know what it entails, what it takes to qualify for social housing, and what your options are if you’re rejected for social housing. Social housing isn’t as black and white as simply receiving a house from the council, there are…
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Essential Daddy DIY Skills
Read moreBeing good at DIY is sort of in the daddy rule book. Well, it’s sort of in the man’s rule book as well. Most women will expect the man they’re with to know a bit of handy skills around the home. Perhaps changing a door handle, being able to redecorate, and really fixing anything that…
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One Way to Make Some Extra Money: PPI Claims #AD
Read moreMaking some extra money is never easy, but if you could find a way to make some extra, what would you spend it on? Here are a few things that I would spend it on. Home Improvements This is a really big one for me because there is always so much to do when you…
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I Had A Go At Repairing My Sash Windows
Read moreI’ve had a look at the outside wooden sills on my sash windows and I really think that it might be a job for a DIY enthusiast. Sash window repair doesn’t seem all that complicated, to my understanding we simply cut out all rotten section of timber, treat it, splice the timber back as neatly…
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The Stress Of Moving Home
Read moreOver the years I have moved house more times than I can count. This was something that started when I was a child. We seemed to be moving house every other week. Part of the reason for this was my mother used to rent and we seemed to change homes every few months. I always…
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Finding The Time To Sort out Your Garden Can Be So Difficult
Read moreWith spring fast approaching our attentions start to turn to getting our garden ready for when we can enjoy sitting out in the garden having family around, getting the barbecue lit and spending more time outdoors, especially during the long warm summer months. It is also good to see the children outdoors enjoying the garden…
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3 Problems That Can Derail DIY Jobs (And Their Solutions)
Read moreIt’s fair to say that, for most people, DIY jobs rarely reach their conclusion without a hitch or two. There’s always at least one unwelcome surprise or unforeseen circumstance that sets progress back, and all you can do is try to adapt and move on as quickly as possible. These things happen and, for the…
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