Motorhome hire in the UK

Posted on April 13, 2013 by finance guy

Campervan and motorhome hire worldwide is becoming a busier and busier Internet category by the day! Motorhome hire in the UK (for UK residents at least) is the busiest category of them all, so to hit the top SE places for that term means you are pulling in a reasonable amount of traffic.

Strangely enough, motorhome hire England has, according to available statistics, the same amount of traffic as the search term for the UK at 22,000 searches per month each. Next comes Scotland with around 9,000 clicks per month, Wales with just over 6,000 and Ireland with a tad over 2,000.

Well our sister company is well on the way to attaining some or all of these after the site had been neglected for near enough 3 years and is already at No 8 for motorhome hire Australia which all the team here think is bloody wonderful!

Motorhome hire Scotland is one we need to work on as right now we don’t seem to appear anywhere, or if we do it is nowhere any surfer will search. This term appears to be more difficult to rank than England or the UK.

Similarly with Wales because motorhome hire Wales, although it is listed in the search engines, is ranked at just under 50 and this is most certainly not good enough!

 

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Car leasing in the Midlands

Posted on March 4, 2013 by finance guy

Strange isn’t it, that when you think of high population centres in England then London automatically springs to mind, probably because it is our capital city and a great deal of the national wealth is created there.

However, other than London most of our large cities are in the Midlands and north of there. They start with Birmingham, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds and a few more slightly north of there, but in those few we mention here we have the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th largest cities in the country.

So far as car leasing is concerned then car leasing in London is by far and away our largest target city, as one would expect of course, but hot on the heels of London comes Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and surprisingly, Bradford which nowadays has a rather large population, albeit somewhere slightly to the north of the Midlands proper.

Car leasing in Leicester is another target city for us; a city in which business throbs, especially in the various textile industries and a city which because of an influx of immigrants has expanded beyond its original boundaries.

Leeds, the age old city of vice as it was termed in the old days, is another city which is rapidly expanding beyond its original self, and again, Leeds is throbbing and has just about to become this country’s 3rd city, overtaking Manchester in that regard.

Car leasing in Leeds is again big business which is so because of the high population and the new found wealth of the people who live and work there.

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Sometimes things don’t go right

Posted on January 22, 2013 by finance guy

It was roughly a month ago when I was on the loft ladder having brought a tin of red paint from there which my wife wanted for something or other. Well, to cut a long story short, I missed a step, fell and dropped the tin of paint.

Have you ever seen a tin of paint hit the floor at a great rate of knots? Nor me until then but hit the floor it did with such force that the lid blew off and there was red pain all over the landing, the stair carpet and the wallpaper.

It looked for all that there had been a quadruple murder! And I was to blame of course – even though I was covered in the stuff too. There was only one thing for it and that was to call Graham, our decorator in Chesterfield at www.nu-dec.co.uk for him to pop over and give us a quote.

Fortunately for me he did a wonderful job and the wallpaper looks better than it did before – well it should do as its new, but the carpet was a write off so I had to call the insurance company about that.

The only good thing to happen that week was when my mate told me about the best car leasing deals locally so methinks I might give that a go later this month.

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Hardwood and parquet floor sanding

Posted on January 22, 2013 by finance guy

We were surprised to learn recently that some house flooring is made from softwood, because prior to learning that we were of the opinion that all floors were hardwood planks or parquet. Our clients are experts in floor sanding in London.

The softwood we refer to is a commercially grown pine and it is technically a softwood but has proved perfect for flooring as it is hard wearing and durable.

Our clients are normally used to hardwood floor sanding in London as they are based in north London themselves and that is where the bulk of their work comes from. They do venture out to the Home Counties on occasion though and have successfully completed many a job in those counties.

New hardwood for flooring purposes though is normally gathered from sustainable forest, and most of this is grown especially for this type of industry. The main woods are as oak, pine, lime, maple, oak, pine, lime, maple, bamboo, mahogany and walnut, bamboo, cherry and beech and walnut.

Now and again rarer ones from the tropics can be teak, mahogany and ebony, though we stress these woods are rare and the forests from where they come are all monitored.

Bamboo is a popular wood these days, primarily because it gives a superb finish to a new floor and also because it is relatively cheap and available. Parquet floor sanding in the London area is often found to made up of a good percentage of bamboo.

 

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Choosing an accountant

Posted on January 22, 2013 by finance guy

If you’re looking for an accountant, it’s important to take up references, and do your homework before selecting a suitable firm.

Good accountants, like Hills Jarrett, offer a great service for their customers. My first accountant however, was in fact very good at his job, I’m sure, but I rather felt he treated me more like a commodity than a customer. I was looking for accountants in Hertfordshire and when I signed up with him, I explained that I was just starting out and that, as a limited company, I knew that there was plenty of paperwork to do with submitting accounts, but that I trusted him to be fair on pricing, as I only had a few invoices for the first year of business. In fact, despite his assurances, he presented me with multi page bill, which amounted, I remember to the best part of £750 for what was less than 20 sales invoices. Several shocked moments later, I realised that he had probably spent rather a long time in order to justify his bill, in listing everything he had done before submitting the accounts. Being able to prepare my accounts myself, I know what was in fact needed, but had been told that you should always use an accountant, as a good accountant saves you more money than you pay them. Needless to say, I changed my accountants looking for some others, nearer to where I lived. In the end, I found an accountant who was recommended to me and my next year’s bill was £250, despite a healthy number of sales and purchase invoices; many more than the year before.

The moral of this story? Choose carefully, get references, or preferably recommendations and always agree a price first…

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Hardwood floors saved by sanding

Posted on January 21, 2013 by finance guy

We bought this house in north London in the March of 2001; in fact, we bought the garden and the house came with it! The garden, I am happy to say, had wonderful potential which we have successfully made the best of, unlike the house which 12 years on is still not the nicest place to live.

There were problems with the house from the start although thankfully we found most of them before the purchase was completed. It was, and still is for the most part, a nasty little 3 bedroom shack which had been previously owned by a hippy couple and their 5 kids.

And there’s the rub because those kids had kicked 7 bells out of every surface as well as scuffing and scratching some previously beautiful hardwood floors. We thought then that they must have been allowed to run amok in their boots and the resulting damage was so bad we had to call in www.floor-sanding-and-sealing.co.uk , the professionals in our neck of the woods.

They made such a superb job of sanding the hardwood floor in the main room downstairs that we decided we recommended them to our neighbours who live some miles away.

Their parquet floor was in a rather poor condition and had previously contemplated doing the work themselves, until they read up on all it entailed so they were more than happy for the Floor Renovations Company to do the necessary parquet floor sanding work in their lounge. It now looks like new as we found when we popped round there last week!

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Floor sanding in London and district

Posted on January 17, 2013 by finance guy

If you are lucky enough to have a house with an old wooden or parquet floor then you will no doubt appreciate the value of it in terms of its beauty, the way it enhances the décor of your room, and of course, the value it adds to your property.

Because floors are walked on, scuffed, scratched and generally abused by our footwear it is natural to find a certain amount of damage and wear and tear to the floors’ surface, and that is where we can help with professional floor sanding in London and the Home Counties.

Our company, Floor-Renovations, has been in the floor renovation industry for many years and we have made and perfected our renovation work into an art form by bringing to life your damaged flooring once again, and in the process, making it like new.

Our business covers hardwood floor sanding in London and area, and we are quite happy working with oak, ash, sycamore, elm, birch, maple, cherry and beech, whilst the rarer ones from the tropics can be teak, mahogany and ebony.

We take the greatest care with your rooms whilst the sanding operation is carried out, but we must stress that skirting boards can and do become scratched during the work. It is impossible for this not to happen because of the machinery we use.

As well as softwood and hardwood flooring we also specialise in parquet floor sanding in London and district, and nothing brings us more job satisfaction than seeing the finished article after a hard day’s work.

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Professional floor sanding in London

Posted on January 14, 2013 by finance guy

There are times when even the most ardent DIY fanatic must surely admit defeat and call in the professionals? Well we most certainly believe that to be true, especially when it comes down to floor sanding and renovation. Our client in this field is a professional company whose expertise is in floor sanding in London.

OK, you can hire a belt sander and do the job yourself, but is this always wise? We can almost see the ladies wincing at the idea of their partners in charge of a belt sander and working on their pride and joy flooring, even though it may need some attention.

Get it wrong chaps and you could well have done some serious damage to what may be a valuable floor. Get it right and yes, you will have saved money, but is it worth taking the chance?

Our clients take on all types of wooden floor sanding work so long as it is in London and the Home Counties, and hardwood floor sanding in London is their bread and butter. Now these guys are experts and will be the first to tell you, politely, that unless you have had some previous experience in this sort of work then it will take you a very long time to complete a standard sized room, and you may lose the will to live whilst doing so.

Parquet floor sanding is even worse, or at least, it is far more complicated because of the amount of joints in the average parquet floor. Isn’t that a good enough reason to call in the experts?

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Floor sanding in London

Posted on January 11, 2013 by finance guy

Floor Renovations are our clients and they specialise in the cleaning, restoration and sanding of wooden floors in London and Greater London. Floor sanding in London, or anywhere else for that matter, is not quite as easy as it sounds when you get down to it as a great deal of car is needed to operate the machinery needed to do the job.

Of course, anyone can do their own DIY floor sanding but if you put two pieces of work; the DIY one and the floor finished by a professional side by side then the difference is like chalk and cheese. It is an art and when done professionally will enhance both your home and the value of it.

The company takes on all types of wooden floors from softwoods through the range of hardwoods and Parquet. There are a great many houses in the London area whose owners are fortunate enough to have parquet floors, and though these are far more difficult to work on they are extremely beautiful when the job is completed and brought back to life.

Floor Renovations take extreme care with all their london parquet floor sanding work  and to date have worked on and completed many a one throughout the Capital.

Floor renovations love to tackle hardwood floor sanding in London, and they have a comprehensive list of satisfied client on whose flooring they have worked during the past few years.

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Small business is good for the country

Posted on January 11, 2013 by finance guy

Further to other articles about small business we are helping in England we are most happy to be working on a website for floor sanding in London. Now believe it or believe it not this is a very competitive category of business as far as the Internet is concerned, and as our client has previously suffered some website disasters, we are taking over the site for a while to get things going forwards.

In a nutshell, what this company does is to renovate wooden flooring; hardwood, softwood and parquet floors are all treated with the utmost professionalism, but it surprised us when we read on their site about the problems with parquet floors because for some reason they are waxed and polished more than other wooden surfaces.

Of course, the wax layer has to be removed before any sanding can take place, and it clogs the abrasive papers to a great extent. It is only after this layer of dirt and wax that the proper job can be started.

The second small business we have been looking after recently is that of a painter and decorator in Chesterfield. This is a new website but Graham, the owner, has been in the decorating trade for over 20 years. He thought it best to set up a website for Nu Dec as everyone else in the business has one and he didn’t want to be left behind.

Our third website is slightly older but is still in need of attention for cheap car leasing as this is the most competitive area of business we are handling for clients at the moment. We remember 5 years ago when this was a really easy category to excel in but times have changed and the motor trade is much more Internet aware these days.

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