Yearly Archives: 2016

How to Quieten Down Your Noisy Appliances

Shhh! Did you hear that? Is that noise normal? You’re no doubt used to your appliances making noises; fridges hum and oven fans whirr. These everyday sounds tend to blend into the background. So if your appliance is extra loud you’ll usually be able to recognise that something’s afoot! Read on as we reveal some common causes of noisy appliances and how to fix them.

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Party Canapes And Wine

Top 5 Easy Cleaning Tips for Entertaining

Fitting in the time to keep your house spick and span can be tricky when you have a busy job and/or hectic schedule. We understand. But if you’ve got guests coming over you’ve got a great excuse to take the bull by the horns (and the vacuum cleaner by the handle) and scrub, clean and polish your home to perfection. Whether you’re hosting a birthday party, housewarming party, dinner party or just a friendly get together, here’s our advice for an easy pre-party spruce up.

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30 Million YouTube Views

30 Million Views – What Do They Mean?

We’re thrilled to announce that our eSpares YouTube channel has reached an incredible milestone – our videos now have over 30 million views! It’s come at a great time too, just as we’ve uploaded our 500th video.

Thank you so much to everyone who has watched our videos; we hope we inspired you to repair your appliance and have given you the confidence to tackle faults in the future too. Let’s celebrate with some facts and figures we’ve come up with based on our milestone figure 30 million (though we haven’t quite managed to rustle up 30 million of them, more like nine…)

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An Egg-cellent Treat for John Taylor Hospice

What are your Easter traditions? A big Sunday roast with the family or an Easter egg hunt perchance? We love Easter for the excuse to treat ourselves with a little chocolate, but we don’t just stuff our faces! We also donate chocolate eggs to one of our chosen charities John Taylor Hospice.

Click Here We thought we’d let you in on our yearly Easter tradition to give us a chance to mention this worthy cause we support.

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Could Your Lawn Look Surprisingly Better?

Have you ever looked across a beautifully manicured lawn at a golf course or stately home and wished your lawn at home looked similar? We’d hate to leave you wistfully dreaming so we’ve put together some dos and don’ts bound to dramatically improve the appearance of your own grass. And as it’s Easter long weekend it’s the ideal time to improve your turf; a break from working means more time for gardening. So let’s get stuck in!

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Brainstorming Ideas For Charity Fundraising

How to Raise Money for Charity at Work!

Here at eSpares we do love a worthy cause. Some of you may have heard us mention our chosen charities before: Marie Curie and John Taylor Hospice. We focus most of our fundraising efforts on these two wonderful charities, but that doesn’t stop us from supporting other charity events throughout the year.

Last week we raised money around our office for Sport Relief (as we’ve been supporting Sport Relief and Comic Relief for a number of years now). Here are the three fundraising techniques we used this time around.

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