Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I hammer away relentlessly at cowboy builders, electricians, gas fitters and DIYers who attempt, and fail to work to CURRENT Building Regulations. So I have to applaud Plumbfix as well as Wolsely (Plumb Centre and Parts Centre) for their stand on supporting CORGI and CORGI Registered gas installers by ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Well, Reality Check please!
As a small home maintenance business trying to conduct business in an age of more and more stealth taxes I am not a big supporter of grandiose plans to drive me further out of the market place. The current multi million pound propaganda drive to convince us ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Well it looks like we're going from the frying pan to the fire with the announcement that CORGI has lost in it's bid to run the gas registration scheme from 2009 to 2014. The HSE has stated that the preferred bidder for the scheme will be CAPITA.
For those of you ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
About two months ago Demon Thus made the business decision to cap my service due to what they said was a misuse of my privilages. See my original BLOG on the subject HERE. They can of course make any policy they want and customers like our business will either have ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR from everyone here at Advantis Home Maintenance. We are dedicated to doing our work to the highest standard without compromising quality or safety. Our BLOG has recently become a place that we can highlight poor workmanship and unsafe situations as well as a place to post the ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
At this time of year I wish to thank all of our customers for dealing with us over the last and previous years. We work very hard to make everyone happy all year long and always try and squeeze those last minute repairs in before everyone breaks for Christmas and ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
This is an article I never thought I'd have to write but I thought it wise to alert other small businesses to the concept of the ever lower and creeping broadband usage bar being undertaken by not only my provider THUS/Demon but others as well. In a shocking discovery that ...
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