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How to maintain a healthy boiler all year round

Regular servicing of your boiler is essential to avoid expensive repairs and ensure it’s operating at its most efficient. In more extreme cases it can even become a danger to the household as a faulty or poorly maintained appliance could cause carbon monoxide poisoning. So the best way to stop any of that from happening [...]

Easy Tips to Cure Your Plumbing Woes

Knowing how to maintain your plumbing can be an extremely useful skill. As your plumbing may need attention usually at the most inconvenient time when you’ve spent all your money or there’s no plumber available. Hopefully this article will provide some useful advice to keep things running smoothly. Things to remember If there is an [...]

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Home sweet home – new improvements?

A lot of what we do as DIYers isn’t the cooler or trendier end of the home improvement scale. okay – so some are born to be like Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, but the rest of us, well … we’re really just a Handy Andy type character. But there’s nothing wrong with that at all. The aesthetic [...]

The pro’s of regular boiler servicing

It’s not always easy to find the money for seemingly small or unimportant things like a boiler service, especially not when everything appears to be working fine. However if things do go wrong or you leave something to go unchecked it can end up causing you a lot of extra expense, when it comes time [...]

Fancy saving 16% on your water bill and helping the environment?

As you all know we’re pretty environmentally friendly here at Home Vibe and we try our best to do what we can. That’s why I can’t believe we never came across this excellent idea sooner. Not only does it save you money but given all the water problems just now this is a great trick [...]

Eight epic DIY and home improvement fails

As enthusiastic amateurs we have been known to make the odd gaffe here and there in our DIY projects. We accept that this is pretty likely and is par for the course in the world of DIY and Home Improvement – the complexity of many projects can make mistakes inevitable. There is however another strata [...]

How to service your boiler

Following on from our last post about why you need a boiler service, we have a great video here that shows you in detail what should be covered when you choose to get your boiler serviced. Now whilst your boiler service should only ever be carried out by a Gas Safe registered professional it certainly [...]

Why you need a winter boiler service?

Winter… It’s an expensive time of year; with the cost of extra heating and all the festivities it can leave even the most frugal of us a little tight in January. However this situation can get a lot worse if you haven’t properly prepared your house for the change in conditions. One of the most [...]

Upgrading your boiler: the grants that matter

There’s no escaping the fact that upgrading your boiler is expensive. And while it’s a cost most people can’t avoid, there are some ways to reduce the price when you need a new boiler. Most people aren’t aware of the grants available to them, and although not everyone is eligible, it’s something everyone should check [...]