Coulson Roofing

Gazebos are great for your garden in the summer. They are ideal if it all of a sudden starts raining to provide shelter, great shade if it gets too hot or just nice to sit under of an evening.

You can get all types and sizes to fit your garden. Some plastic or material and some with sides or without sides. And even some with windows!

Here is a pick of my favourites at the moment:

1. Classic pop up gazebo . £99 from Tescos.

2. This one is £69.99 from greenfingers.com and has detachable sides.

3. Lastly, this luxury gazebo is suitable for a big garden and ideal for big parties! At £399.99 from gardenfurniturecentre.co.uk it will be the envy of all your neighbours!

Pictures: tescos.com, greenfingers.com, gardenfurniturecentre.co.uk

At some point in our lives we will all probably wallpaper a room at some point but few people actually know how to do it right, so for something so expensive and so essentially a skill I thought it right to give you a quick how to.
First, plan your attack. Centre it around a chimney or main wall and make sure any overlaps or mismatched parts of the paper are restricted to a corner. Use a plumb line to then mark a vertical line on the wall and hang your first piece up to it.
Make sure that you line your walls with lining paper. Do not wrap the paper around internal corners. Go round the corner by 1cm and then paper over the overlap, flush with the corner.
Repeat around the room!
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Roof maintenance is something that everybody should do regularly but rarely do, usually based upon the cost of repairs –hiring out a workmen etc – and also the general out of sight, out of mind, qualities of the general roof. It’s easy to not realise when repairs need doing, let alone how to do them.
In this post I’ll explain the basics of replacing roof tiles.
Upon finding your broken tile, you want to replace it carefully without disrupting the surrounding tiles too much. Because of the interlocking nature of the tiles you will want to use a wedge of some sort to lift the tiles either side of the broken one, without losing their place in the roof. This is important, just removing it without doing so may cause you to remove more of the roof than you originally intended!
If the tile is nailed down, use a slate ripper to cut through the nails, if it is held by clips simply lever the tile out of place. Insert the new tile and remove the wedges previously put in place. There will be no need to nail or stick the tile down; the interlocked surrounding tiles should be enough to hold it down.
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