Advice
Things worth knowing before you ring anybody
Half of what we are called out to is something a person could have checked themselves in five minutes. Here is that five minutes, written down.
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How to read your own consumer unit
Nine people in ten have never opened the little grey box by the front door, and the one time they need to it is dark and something is buzzing. This is the five-minute version: which switch is the main, what the RCD is protecting you from, and how to work out which circuit went without ringing anybody at all.
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Everything else worth knowing
Why your pressure drops upstairs
Nine times in ten it is the pump, the vessel or a tank that is emptying faster than it fills — and only one of those is expensive.
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The filter clean that saves a compressor
Most units we condemn did not fail. They ran hot for two years behind a filter nobody had taken out of the frame since the day it was fitted.
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Sizing a generator without guessing
Add up what you actually run at once rather than every nameplate in the building, and you will usually buy a smaller set that lasts longer.
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Six things to check before the rains
Gutters, parapet seals, the earth rod, the pump chamber and two others — an afternoon in March against a fortnight in June.
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What a proper quote should tell you
If it is one number with no breakdown, you cannot compare it with anything and neither can the person who wrote it.
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“Three people had looked at that leak and told me it was the roof. Beacon found it in an hour — a pinhole in a riser behind the wardrobe — and fixed it the same afternoon.”
Adjoa Mensimah
Homeowner, Adenta
“They sized my changeover off what I actually run rather than off the machine plates. The generator is half what the last quote wanted and it has never once tripped.”
Kwesi Amankwah
Print shop, Spintex Road
“Fourteen units, three weekends, and not one tenant complained. That has never happened to me with a contractor before and I have been doing this for eleven years.”
Naana Otoo
Facilities manager, Airport City
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