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The Handyman’s July Home Maintenance Checklist

It’s July and summer is in full swing. The last thing on anyone’s mind is home maintenance, but it must be done. You could hire a handyman, or follow the advice of TMT Central London’s local handymen, who recommend completing a few tasks a month.

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Ready Your Workplace for COVID-19 with Deep Cleaning

Dusting and wiping down surfaces at the end of the night is no longer enough to keep your workplace safe from viruses and harmful bacteria. That’s why TMT Central London recommends regular COVID-19 deep cleaning to limit the virus’s spread.

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All You Need to Know about Wall Cracks and Painting

There’s nothing like a crack on your wall to ruin the aesthetic appeal of a fresh coat of paint. Luckily, our team of painters and decorators in London explain why cracks form, how to fix them and when you need to hire painting contractors. Read on to find out more.

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How to Deep Clean your Home

We all have tasks around the house we’d rather not do until we absolutely have to, like washing the curtains, cleaning the microwave, and disinfecting surfaces.

But with the recent pandemic, deep cleaning your home is a necessity.

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10 Top Tips from Professional Painters

Painting your interior walls is a daunting task for any DIY enthusiast. To make your DIY paint job easier, we gathered our favourite tips from our London-based team of painters and decorators. Read on to learn more about their favourite painting hacks.

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How to Choose the Right Paint Type and Finish

Now that you’ve chosen the right paint colour and your walls are primed and ready, all that is left is for you to get the paint and start the job. Just like the colour, the type of paint you choose can transform a space. The paint finish you settle on will influence the quality of your paint job and the atmosphere of your room. That’s why we’ve asked our central London based team of professional painters and decorators to break down everything you need to know about paint bases and finishes.

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COVID-19: How to deep clean a virus

According to the NHS, COVID-19 is spread through droplets via sneezing, coughing or speaking. These infected droplets can live on surfaces for hours, making deep cleaning essential in the fight against this respiratory disease.

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Leaky tap? Here’s How to Fix it Quickly

Few sounds are as annoying, and inconvenient, as a leaky tap. Never mind the litres of water that can go to waste if the tap isn’t repaired timeously. Luckily, leaky taps are usually easy to fix. So before looking for local plumbing companies, read on to find out how to fix a leaky tap yourself.

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The handyman’s June home maintenance checklist

June is the perfect time for homemakers to complete upkeep tasks that they’ve been putting off all year. The weather is warming up, and here in London, the rain takes a break. Perhaps because of the warmer weather, home maintenance is often done begrudgingly even though our homes are often one of our biggest investments.

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How to Jet Wash Your Patio Easily

There’s nothing like a well-maintained patio to make a home’s garden look warm, inviting, and well kept. However, with time your patio can end up looking stained, or gather growth like moss or algae.

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Everything You Need to Know About Paint Primer

Giving a room a fresh coat of paint is the perfect way to give it a new lease on life. But one part of painting can be especially tricky, and that’s the priming stage. Not everyone agrees on whether paint primer is even necessary, or when you should prime a surface before painting.

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DIY Handyman: Tips for Homeowners – May Home Maintenance Tasks

Now that spring is well and truly here, many of us are making to-do lists off all the cleaning and general DIY handymen tasks that we’d like to get completed before summer hits. And with so many of us being housebound during the current Covid-19 outbreak, now might be the right time to complete those odd jobs around the house.

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A Covid-19 Checklist for Estate Agents

We are living in challenging times with many working from home and with many offices being closed as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. Many of our clients who need general handyman and building maintenance support are estate agents who are adapting their usual business operations to respond to the current challenge

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The DIY Handyman: What Electrical Work Can You Safely Do Yourself?

Electricity and power supply have become constants in everyday modern life; we flip a switch and lights come on or plug in a cord to recharge our phones, and it’s easy to forget that these mundane activities involve intricate wiring and specific flows of electrical power.

When everything is working properly, you hardly think about it. But the moment you flip that light switch but remain in darkness, you have a decision to make: do you call an electrician, or have a go at it yourself?

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DIY Handyman: What DIY Electrical Work Can You Do Yourself?

Electricity and power supply have become constants in everyday modern life; we flip a switch and lights come on or plug in a cord to recharge our phones, and it’s easy to forget that these mundane activities involve intricate wiring and specific flows of electrical power.

When everything is working properly, you hardly think about it. But the moment you flip that light switch but remain in darkness, you have a decision to make: do you call an electrician, or have a go at it yourself?

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Your Bathroom Plumbing Is More Complicated Than You Think

When you have to make the rounds in your house as you clean, the one room we often try to leave toward the end is the bathroom, and this is simply because we know what types of things go on in there. The truth is that as much as we think we know (and avoid) about our bathrooms, it is our bathroom plumbing that we should be paying more attention.

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How To Keep A Blocked Toilet From Becoming A Plumbing Catastrophe

Over the last home ownership and the types of issues homeowners are fearful of when it comes to general upkeep. Perhaps the one issue, though, that has always been a major concern to homeowners is that of faulty plumbing, including the immediate nature of a blocked toilet.

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Facts That You Might Not Know About a Boiler Heating System

Winter season is undoubtedly a great time to spend by enjoying snow everywhere but we have to be more careful in this weather as sometimes it becomes hard to bear cold. At homes, cold water is one of the main issues that you may have to face if the boiler heating system doesn’t work appropriately.

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Understanding the Dangers of Disinfection Byproducts

Why are chlorine chemicals added to my drinking water?Chlorine disinfection is a chemical process used in municipal water systems, private wells, schools and businesses where chlorinated chemicals are added to inactivate or kill disease-causing organisms (pathogens) found in the water source.