If you are looking to rejuvenate your home a little, what better place to start than the dining room? With a carefully thought out dining room, eating or entertaining may become a much more pleasurable experience. You can design the space yourself if you feel comfortable, or find an experienced interior designer to help you. If turning the ideas into reality is simple enough, you can carry out the painting and renovation yourself. If the work is a little more tricky you may want to find an experienced painter or decorator. Below are a few things that you should consider.
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Need Help Moving House?
Moving house or flat can be a pretty stressful experience. Once you’ve navigated the administrative minefield of organising your new abode, there are the actual logistics of moving yourself and your possessions to your new home. We’ve compiled a brief outline of the various things to remember when you do move, in the hope of making everything just that little bit easier.
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Top Tools for DIY
We all fancy ourselves as a DIY pro – and why not? Many jobs are relatively simple to undertake and with a bit of research and common sense there are a lot of jobs which are not beyond our reach. Although I say this, it is important to know when to hand a job over to a professional handyman. Certainly when it comes gas issues, a qualified Gas Safe engineer is essential. Electrics can also be dangerous in the hands of someone unqualified. We suggest leaving any electrics beyond changing a bulb or simply rewiring a plug to a professional electrician. So for those jobs that we can do ourselves, what are the essential tools that we should all have?
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DIY Can Be Dangerous
Have you ever thought “Maybe I should have hired a professional”? Perhaps the paint job you did turned out blotchy, or maybe the shelves you put up are wonky and/or keep falling down? Hopefully you stopped there, as electric DIY tasks can have much more serious, irreversible consequences.
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The Dangers of DIY
When it comes to DIY many people will ask themselves “why didn’t I just hire a professional?” Perhaps the paint job you did turned out blotchy, or maybe the shelves you put up are wonky and keep falling down or worse, the consequences of your DIY electrics haven’t even given you a second chance to rectify your mistakes.
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One in five tradespeople have considered changing careers
The MyHammer study also revealed the following:
- 73% of tradespeople feel the government is not doing enough to support them
- 39% of those asked find they now have less work with 17% admitting to thinking about a change in career
- 66% of tradespeople have noticed a rise in customers trying to avoid payments
- 57% of tradespeople have noticed that customers are becoming more environmentally aware
- 25% have had to become more competitive to keep their business afloat
- Women in the trade have increased their competitiveness more than the men with 34% of women stating this, against 25% of men
7th June 2009 – Nearly three quarters [73%] of tradespeople feel that the government is not doing enough to support their business, with almost one in five [17%] admitting to having considered changing careers, according to a survey for online trades and services portal MyHammer.
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