Elliot Preece

Is your home really safe with ‘smart’ home security?

Is your home really safe with ‘smart’ home security?

Mobile apps represent the latest in smart home technology. Advanced home automation softwares have made it possible for you to turn lights and appliances on and off, control thermostats and perform other handy home functions from your mobile phone. This capability has...

Changing Locks? Make Sure Your Locksmith Is Licensed

Changing Locks? Make Sure Your Locksmith Is Licensed

If you are planning on changing your locks, you need to make sure you get a licensed locksmith to do the job. Unless you’re a professional, doing it yourself could invalidate your home insurance, or leave your property vulnerable. Unfortunately, choosing a good...

Who has the best Superhero Hideout

Who has the best Superhero Hideout

This wonderful infographic will measure which superhero has the best hideout, they can measure this by how much the property is worth measured by estate agents tower hamlets. They can also measure the quality of property based on how many bedrooms it has and a house...

A Brief History of Health and Safety

A Brief History of Health and Safety

Although we come across health and safety on a daily basis, whether this is PPE or work guides. But throughout all the encounters have you ever wondered where it all began? Where the initial spark of safety legislation started and how it evolved to be part of everyday...

4 Tips for moving house with children

4 Tips for moving house with children

Moving home isn’t a barrel of laughs, even when it’s just you. Now throw in children or a family and you’ve got an exponentially more difficult job on your hands. While we’re not claiming to take all of your house-moving anxieties away with a man and van service, but...

Hygge, the secret of Scandinavian happiness

Hygge, the secret of Scandinavian happiness

Hygge, an exclusive Scandinavian concept everyone envies. Everyone who has visited one of the Scandinavians countries has noticed the famous hygge. A concept the rest of the world tries to translate as “cozy”, "familiar", "lovable" or "warm". For Scandinavians, it...

4 Design Tips For A Modern Poker Room

4 Design Tips For A Modern Poker Room

The idea of having a poker room in your home might seem a little bit old fashioned. You might think of it as the sort of thing people might have done 30 or 40 years ago, and you may even associate it with the so-called amateur poker “boom” of the early-2000s. But...

3 Home Insurance Myths You Probably Believe

3 Home Insurance Myths You Probably Believe

According to Aviva, as many as 30 percent of UK homeowners think that their home insurance covers just about anything that harms their home. As much as people want that to be true, it simply isn’t. Electrical breakdowns, wear and tear, and mechanical failures are just...

7 Tips to Build Your Own Self Build Garden Cabin

7 Tips to Build Your Own Self Build Garden Cabin

Rather than take on the humongous of building a garden cabin, some people ease the task by buying self-build garden cabin kits. These utilities can be found in major stores across the country readily available for clients, as opposed to gathering specific materials...

3 Tips for an Ideal Garden Office

3 Tips for an Ideal Garden Office

While many people may not have heard of a garden office, it’s exactly as the name suggests - an office in your garden. Breaking away from the tired ideas of what a home office should look like, garden offices place you exactly where you are most likely to get in some...

9 Tips for a Stress-Free Move

9 Tips for a Stress-Free Move

Many would consider Moving House to be a stressful time in their lives. Any period of significant change is going to cause disruption and will breed certain levels of anxiety but really, a new home should be an exciting and positive experience. Often, the reason...

Air Permeability – A Self Builders Guide

Air Permeability – A Self Builders Guide

Today, more than ever, there is a growing demand to save energy, from both consumer demand and government legislation. This is especially true in the construction and property sectors.  As a consequence, the regulations concerning air permeability remains a constant...

How to prevent false alarms at home

How to prevent false alarms at home

There are few things more terrifying than being woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of your burglar or smoke alarm, and few things more annoying than realising that alarm was actually set off by a pet. The Metropolitan Police recently noted that 92% of...