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Your Definitive Guide To Four Of The Most Reliable Air Conditioning Brands In Australia

December 22, 2023 The Amateurs Digest 0

One thing you will not find a scarcity of when looking for air conditioning is choice. That choice extends to how many units you purchase, the prices, the specific air conditioning units, if you want ducted air conditioning, which air conditioning retailer you are buying from, and who you hire to install your air conditioning.

One choice we omitted from that list is the many air conditioning brands Australian consumers can choose from. Each brand will have a range of air conditioning products, increasing your choices even more, but this can have positives and negatives. The positives are that more options give you a better chance of finding an air conditioning unit that suits your needs and helps make prices more competitive.

However, many choices can be confusing for some, especially if they have little knowledge or experience purchasing air conditioning. In this article, we will try to help reduce confusion by highlighting four of Australia’s top air conditioning brands and some of the reasons why you might choose them or, more specifically, their highly reliable and efficient air conditioning products.

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How Commercial Storage Can Help You During Home Emergencies

How Commercial Storage Can Help You During Home Emergencies

March 27, 2023 The Amateurs Digest 0

Emergencies can strike at home at any time, often leaving us feeling overwhelmed and unprepared, and one of the biggest challenges during an emergency is managing your belongings, especially if you need to evacuate your home quickly; this is where commercial storage units can be an enormous help.

With a reliable storage facility, like those managed by brilliancestorage.com.au, you can store your family’s belongings quickly, safely, and securely until you can return home. In this blog post, we will explore this and others ways in which commercial storage can be extremely helpful to you and your family during home emergencies.

Types Of Emergencies That Could Mean You Require Commercial Storage

Several types of emergencies can require you to store your belongings in a commercial storage unit. Here are three of the most common examples.

Natural Disasters: Natural disasters like storms and floods can strike without warning. In these situations, you may need to evacuate your home quickly to ensure your family’s safety. A commercial storage facility can provide a safe and secure location to store your belongings until you are able to return home.

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How To Tell If Your Concrete Floors Need Resurfacing

October 27, 2020 The Amateurs Digest 0

There are lots of different buildings and facilities that have concrete floor coatings, and many of those floors may have an existing concrete floor coatings. Regardless of where it is, there will come a time when you have to assess whether or not that concrete floor is in need of any remedial work, which could include a repair, new finishing, or the application of a new coating.

The checks on concrete floors are necessary regardless of where they are, even if that is your garage at home. The last thing you want is for you to trip due to a cracked piece of concrete while carrying a container full of old oil, for example.

In retail, commercial, and industrial properties, the need for checks is even greater to the point of being a legal requirement with regards to the health and safety of employees and customers.

It could be an expensive day in court if someone sues you and your business due to an injury they received as a result of tripping on a damaged concrete floor that did not have a warning sign.

As well as health and safety reasons, a concrete floor can also be resurfaced in order to give the entire premises a fresh new look or to modernise it. Given the huge array of options that concrete floor paints and coatings now have in terms of colours and patterns, you should never be short of choices.

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Why You Need to Say Goodbye to the Kitchen Sponge

February 17, 2020 The Amateurs Digest 0

Any method and tool for cleaning in your home is good, as long as you’re cleaning, right? Wrong. While staying on top of household chores is good for body, soul, and home, there are some things that can just do more harm than good. And the ordinary kitchen sponge is one of them. Read on to learn why you should be saying ‘see ya’ to the sponge.

Germs, Germs, and More Germs

If you thought that your bathroom would be the room in your home with the most bacteria, then you’d be wrong. Yes, it does have a lot of germs, but your kitchen has even more than you might think.

In 2017, researchers from Germany carried out germ analysis on ordinary kitchen sponges. To look at them, they appeared as any regular sponges, but little did the researchers know that they would be hotbeds for bacteria.

In one sponge, those researchers identified over 350 types of bacteria, with as many as 45 billion in every square centimetre. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, then think about the average size of a kitchen sponge. Nearly five and a half trillion tiny bugs are calling your cleaning tool home.

Fortunately, none of the bacteria on the sponges in the study were harmful, but there were infection-causing pathogens, which could pose a risk to human health.

What Should I Use Instead?

If you’ve realised the error of your ways, and you want to invite a new type of cleaning tool into your home, then you can’t go wrong with a plastic brush. They lack crevices for bacteria to get stuck, and they dry out far quicker than a kitchen cloth or sponge. What’s more, they are often safe to clean in the dishwasher, which can remove bacteria that could be lurking between the bristles.

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Essential Fire Safety Tips For Your Building

July 24, 2018 The Amateurs Digest 0

Fortunately for most employees, safety in most workplaces is regulated carefully under OHS laws. Things like fire protection and safe working practices are defined by a regulatory body – usually Worksafe – who release detailed guidelines to help you follow the law.

However, Integral Fire Protection tells us a lot of business owners still find it hard to follow fire protection laws. This could be because they aren’t sure where the responsibility lies. After all, they aren’t sure what to do because they believe that most fire safety actions are too complicated. This is not true. Fire safety is essential and should be a priority for every business owner. Some of our top fire safety tips to keep your business and employees safe include:

Make sure you have the right fire safety gear:

The first thing that you need to do is to make sure that you have the right fire safety gear in your building. Fire extinguishers can help you control and contain small fires before they get out of hand, potentially saving you from significant financial and property losses. Some of the fire gear your building should have includes:

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Plumbing – When It Is Time to Call for Professional Help

May 15, 2018 The Amateurs Digest 0

In this modern world of DIY TV shows and magical ways to fix things at home, there comes a time when a plumbing job requires the help of a licensed plumber. Sure, there are simple problems a person can do and probably do them fairly quickly. But let’s face it: Licensed professionals have a more excellent range of jobs they can do, from basic to harsh and dangerous. If you are a DIY enthusiast who likes to repair and replace within your home but has finally come up against a curly and challenging problem, and you are unsure what to do, read on. Hiring a professional plumber is the best advice we can offer.

  • Specialist Work – Gas Lines

For instance, gas lines are an area of plumbing that should never be handled by anybody other than a licensed expert. Tradesmen in this field usually have specialized equipment for gas pressure testing and leak detection. You wouldn’t purchase equipment like that for DIY jobs. Affixing and threading pipes is also a specialist task. The equipment and expertise are not likely to be an option for an ordinary householder.

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11 Common Sense Tips to Ensure Your Freight is Safe

August 1, 2017 The Amateurs Digest 0

No matter what kind of freight you send, you’ll want it to arrive in good condition with no visible damage.  The first step is to choose a reliable transport company that comes highly recommended by friends, family or someone else you know and trust. Failing that, you can ask around hardware or furniture stores, or do some research online to find just the right company.

Here are 11 tips to ensure it arrives safely.

  • Packaging is the watchword if you want goods to arrive undamaged. Don’t just pack them up in any old box with a piece of string to keep it all together. Choose a box that is new or nearly new and has not been obviously battered around on other trips.
  • Choose a box with a lid, preferably one that fits down over the top and can be securely taped to the sides.
  • Tape the lid down and run the tape right around and under the box to ensure the bottom doesn’t fall out. Tape another strip over and down the un-taped side. The end of the tape should overlap the start by a few centimetres.
  • Use strong packaging tape, not the kind painters use.
  • Pack the goods with care and attention to detail. If there are any sharp points or pieces that poke out, wrap extra bubble wrap around them so they can’t penetrate the box walls.
  • Fill in all the gaps around the item with wrapping or scrunched up newspaper, and if you have multiple boxes, use more tape or cargo nets to make sure your packages are kept together.
  • Place padding on the base of the box before inserting the item, then over the top of the item before putting on the lid
  • Never over-pack a box as they are usually stacked on top of each other in the truck and this would put lots of pressure on the item.

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For When It Can’t Wait, Call a 24/7 Electrician

January 21, 2017 The Amateurs Digest 0

Certain home repairs just can’t wait—from plumbing leaks to gas leaks and beyond. Some electrical issues fall into this category, as well. Faulty wiring and other electrical problems can be a fire hazard and can put both your family and you in danger. Luckily, in a case where you encounter one of these must-fix problems, there is always an emergency electrician that can help at any hour of the day.

When you suspect you have an electrical emergency, you shouldn’t hesitate to call a professional electrician. It is always better to be safe than sorry when it comes to wiring and electrical issues, and at very least, a good electrician can provide you with some much-needed peace of mind.

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Enhance Your Life by Using a Professional Handyman

November 24, 2015 The Amateurs Digest 0

When you own a home there is always going to be some repair job that needs doing. While it is true that many homeowners develop the skills to do such jobs, they are rarely as good at doing them than a person who is a professional handyman, simply because they don’t get the experience needed in doing them over and over again – not to mention the professional training in how to do them properly in the first place.

The trouble is that even though you may love your tools and enjoy working with your hands, you have another job that takes up most of your time and energy. Often, those repairs are left for weeks on end – maybe even months – simply because you don’t have the time or inclination to do them. Meanwhile, people who have to use the thing that’s broken get really stressed out because it is difficult to use, or it doesn’t work at all.

Unattended repairs cost money

Repairs such as leaky taps and cisterns that don’t get done are not only stressors in your life, they are actually costing you money. Leaks use up far more water than you would imagine; water you have to pay for. And what’s more, those leaks are never going to go away unless they are properly fixed. Leaks are caused by the seal wearing out and once it is worn, it won’t fix itself.

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How to Iron Your Carpet – and Why

April 17, 2014 The Amateurs Digest 0

Did you know it is possible to iron your carpet? Not the same way you would iron the clothes, of course, but ironing the carpet does have its place and no, not to get the wrinkles out. According to Brilliance Carpet Cleaning Perth ironing is part of a carpet cleaning company process and one possible way to remove stains that you cannot identify the source of. You may think this sounds crazy, but in fact it does work.

This is how you do it.

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