Villars of the community: Grant Management fund raisers on the piste again
January 17, 2008
It is hot toddies all round for the intrepid Grant Management team which returned this week from the mighty 24 hour ski marathon in Villars.
The idea is to ski as a team from midday Saturday to midday Sunday non-stop, completing as many sponsored laps as possible to raise money for charity.
This is the third year Grant Management has pulled on the salopettes, raising funds for DSUK, Teenage Cancer Trust, Patouch, and World Food Programme. And on that subject, you can still add your own contribution to these good causes by emailing laura.francis (at) grantmanagement.co.uk
It seems the all-night leg was particularly grim but, come the final hooter, everyone had survived.
Here are some photos:
And here are some video highlights (with more available here):
Boilers under pressure! More essential hints for winter
December 13, 2007
Hot on the heels of his brilliant bleeding radiator advice, Barry our repairs guru is back with another smash hit - how to check the pressure of your boiler.
Yes, we know it’s not the sort of thing people do on an hourly basis but when you are sitting in on a Saturday night watching X Factor wondering why ice has formed on the top of your Horlicks, this could save the day.
It might also come in handy for those moments when the needle shoots into the red, the whole house starts shaking and a disembodied voice shouts “It’s going to blow captain!”
Oh, whatever. Watch it. It’s a gas.
Bleeding radiators! Get ready for winter
December 6, 2007
We promised a while back that Barry our repairs expert would pass on some handy hints for anyone renting a property from Grant Management and might not be familiar with the whole maintenance angle.
So here we are - Barry’s first handy hint covers the whole tricky business of bleeding your radiators. And when we say tricky, this is a tough one. It must take all of about 30 seconds. But it’s really worth doing.
When excess air gets into your radiator, you will find it doesn’t heat up efficiently - there may well be an Arctic-type chill coming off the top two thirds - and you are left wondering why you are burning up so much fuel and yet still shivering round the tootsies. In short, here’s one you can try at home:
Meet Barry, our property repairs manager
October 3, 2007
Yes, this is Barry. He’s our hero in charge of property repairs in Edinburgh and is usually first port of call when anything goes wrong. For example, that moment when the people upstairs leave their bath running and suddenly you’ve got a scene from the Titanic happening in the hallway. Let’s be honest, it happens.
Given that efficient and timely maintenance can prevent a whole wagon-load of problems, we’ve decided to give Barry his own slot here on the blog to pass on handy hints for all, whether you are renting a flat or a house or if you are a property owner. We’ll be kicking that off next week, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, I’d like to pass on a little tale he told me yesterday about a tenant - not one of ours - who didn’t have the best grasp of English. Nothing wrong with that - it just led to a comical misunderstanding the day she phoned tenant support and reported that her water boiler wasn’t working.
Tenant support contacted their favourite gas engineer who visited the rented property, checked the system but could not find any sort of problem. Much head scratching ensued until finally it was discovered she was talking about her kettle! Kettle = water boiler. Just one of those things…
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