Helpful home advice for the winter months
The winter months can put a huge demand on your home with potentially more chance of suffering an emergency or breakdown such as bust pipes, broken boilers and electrical faults. So it's important to be prepared
So here you'll find heaps of practical tips and tricks to keep your home toasty this winter, plus loads of other useful home advice.
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- Use kitchen salt & warm water to unblock frozen drains.
- Use kitchen foil behind radiators to reflect heat into the room.
- Leave your loft hatch open a little to stop pipes and tanks freezing in the roof space.
- Keep blinds and curtains closed to minimise heat loss through windows.
- Keep candles and torches to hand as power cuts are more frequent during the winter.
- To stop pipes freezing when nobody's home leave internal doors, even the kitchen sink cupboard open and central heating on low.
- Shut off all outside taps and drain standing water to stop burst pipes.


