Winter Blues… | Lillywhite Home Renovations

With winter just around the corner, or even beginning to rear its ugly head, you may be facing challenges with maintaining your property.

Please read the below guide in being prepared for the winter in regards to your property.

FROZEN PIPEWORK

At the risk of stating the ‘bleeding’ obvious, temperatures drop considerably in winter, water inside your pipework can easily freeze causing burst pipes that can lead to massive home floods and untold amounts of damage to your furniture and the things you love the most.

To try and limit the possibility of this happening, it’s a good idea to get your pipes a jacket of foam insulation.

This should help to insulate the pipes against any severe drop in temperature and prevent you coming home from work to a scene from Aquaman!

Lillywhite can come and do this for you should you not feel comfortable doing it yourself, contact us on 07949 394 403 or info@lillywhitepropertyservices.com

DRAINS AND GUTTERS CLOGGED

Clogged drains are a common issue for most family homes – I should know, I have lived with 3 women and there isn’t a week that goes by in which I was not pulling a soggy Chewbacca-like clump of hair from my bathroom waste.
Couple that with all of the leaves that appear in my garden and I am in a constant battle – both inside and out – to keep my drains clean and clear pretty much all the time.

If your gutters begin to collect too much debris when the temperature drops, ice can begin to form and this can lead to untold damage and even potential breaks to the guttering itself.

My advice to anyone that suffers with the build-up of leaves and plant debris is to make sure you hire a professional to clear your guttering before the temperature drops below freezing and be sure to invest in some gutter guards to help prevent your drains from getting clogged.

Lillywhite can come and do this for you should you not feel comfortable doing it yourself, contact us on 07949 394 403 or info@lillywhitepropertyservices.com

LOOK AFTER YOUR BOILER AND YOUR BOILER WILL LOOK AFTER YOU

You could be turning on your heating for the first time. Like anything when not used boiler parts can seize or simply stop working. It is very important to get your boiler serviced annually and also have a gas safety inspection carried out annually.

This should prevent any issues you may get when turning on your boiler for the first time in months when the cold weather sets in.

This should also prevent a boiler breakdown and the scenario of not having hot water or heating until an engineer is able to visit then get parts in to repair your boiler.

We offer very competitive prices for services and safety checks to be carried out together at once. Get in touch on 07949 394 403 or info@lillywhitepropertyservices.com to book one of our engineers to visit.