Rainy weather? Clear your guttering now and save a fortune in drainage bills.

Angie Lyons-Redman advises on how to save money by carrying out annual maintenance on your guttering.

As soon as the rain starts, the calls start coming in with blocked gutters and drains causing havoc for our clients.   Mostly, guttering problems happen when regular maintenance is not carried out.  Some clients forget to have the guttering cleared after the trees have shed their leaves in the Autumn and this leads to all sorts of problems with the drainage.

How to negotiate the cost of your new home

Many clients do not realise the condition of the electrics or the gas appliances when they are looking to buy a property.   Finding this out before hand benefits you because not only can you see how much you will have to spend on the property when you move in but also you can use this information cleverly to negotiate the price of the property with the seller.

Why does the pilot light keep going out on my boiler?

You might find that the pilot light goes out on your boiler for no apparent reason.  Here are a few common reasons for this fault.

The most common cause for a pilot light to go out, is that the thermocouple needs to be replaced. This is a small probe that extends into the flame of the pilot light, and has a small diameter metal wire that runs back to the gas valve.