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ORGANIC HEALTH & HOME

Keep a Healthy Home in the Heat This Summer

May 26, 2017 TipsfromTia

Keep a Healthy Home in the Heat This Summer

Staying healthy is something you should work at all year, but it’s often in the spring and summer months when you really want to commit yourself. It’s hard to stay motivated when it’s colder and darker, so you can feel much more energized when summer arrives. Keeping your home healthy during the summer is sometimes a challenge, especially if you suffer from hayfever. You need to stay cool and hydrated and make sure you can get a good night’s sleep in the heat. Here’s how you could make your home healthier this summer to live a healthier lifestyle.

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Staying Cool

Keeping cool is one of the most important things you need to do during the summer. It’s important to avoid becoming dehydrated or even experiencing things like heat stroke. Plus, staying cool helps to keep you comfortable, putting you in a better mood and generally making it easier for you to live your life. Most people’s immediate thought to ensure their home stays cool is to get the best air conditioner they can find. An air conditioner is often the most effective way of staying cool. However, you can also make use of fans, open windows, and also keep your home darker to prevent the sun heating it up.

Stock the Kitchen with Healthy Food

During the winter, it’s easy to take comfort in less healthy foods. When summer arrives, it can often be easier to stick to a healthier diet. You might have less of an appetite when it’s hot, and prefer to eat lighter and smaller meals. However, there can be lots of tempting treats too, from ice cream to BBQ. Instead of indulging in barbecue and cold desserts, you can try to be a little healthier. Focus on enjoying different types of salads, which you can bulk up using ingredients like couscous or quinoa. Consider making your own ice pops too, using fruit juice, so you know exactly what’s in them.

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Spend Time Gardening

Getting to spend more time outside is one of the best things about summer. Gardening is a great way to spend time in your backyard, and it’s excellent for your mental health. It can also be pretty hard physical work, depending on what you choose to do, so it can help to keep you fit. If you want something to get you outside in the summer, doing some gardening could be just what you need.

Sleep Well

Sleeping well is essential to both your mental and physical health. If you’re struggling to sleep in the summer, it could have more of an effect on you than you might think. You don’t want to be falling asleep by mid-afternoon when you have such lovely long days to enjoy. Staying cool at night is the key to a good sleep, so try to sleep with light sheets and have your air conditioning on if you can. You might also need to block out the late evening sun – blackout blinds or curtains can help with this.

Make your home healthier in the summer with a few changes to manage the heat. Spend your time wisely to keep fit and eat healthily.

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ORGANIC HEALTH & HOME

Moving Vs Renovating: The Pros and Cons

May 25, 2017 TipsfromTia

Moving Vs Renovating: The Pros and Cons

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When you first moved into your house, it might have felt like your dream home. However, just because it was exactly what you were after at the time, doesn’t mean there won’t be problems later down the line. Maybe you’ve had a couple of kids or adopted some pets. Perhaps you’ve started caring for an elderly relative, or have started working from home? Either way, a change in circumstances can mean a house you once loved is no longer suitable. When this happens, you have two main options: stay and renovate or move somewhere new. But which do you pick?

Renovation: The Pros

If you only need one or two extra rooms, a simple extension or even a conservatory can solve your issues. You could convert the loft, basement or even just re-jig the space you have by moving the internal walls. Either way, it could be a simple fix that saves you a lot of time, hassle, and money from moving house. If you’re close to family, good schools or just generally love your home and don’t want to move, renovating allows you to stay put while adapting your home to your current needs.

Renovation: The Cons

Renovation is no walk in the park. When this kind of work is being done while you’re still living in the property, it can be incredibly stressful as it feels like you’re living on a building site. When you’re doing major renovation work, you will often need planning permission too, and waiting around for that can be annoying when you just want to get cracking. Then, of course, there’s the cost too. If you don’t want to borrow against your home, you will need to come up with the money for renovations too which aren’t ever going to be cheap.

Moving House: The Pros

Moving house is incredibly exciting. It’s the perfect opportunity to start fresh, you have this new blank canvas and the promise of a new life ahead of you. There are few chances in life you get like this where you get to wipe the slate and start again. Moving house also allows you to work out exactly what you don’t like about your old place so you can find something better the next time around. Perhaps your commute is too far, or you want to be closer to better schools? Whatever it is, you could compare home loans and get started on the path to a new life.

Moving House: The Cons

There’s no doubt about it, moving is stressful. Physically moving your items, changing over bills and addresses with a hundred and one companies, cleaning and repairing your old property and finding the perfect new home. You have removals vans to book, solicitors to speak to and so much more. It’s mentally and physically exhausting, and definitely not something you want to be doing on a regular basis!

Will you be renovating or moving house this year? If so, what was the reason for your decision?

FOR THE GUYS, ORGANIC HEALTH & HOME

Protecting the Roof Over Your Head

May 24, 2017 TipsfromTia

Protecting the Roof Over Your Head

Most people know that our roof protects us. It shields us from things like bad weather, rodents and insects, and it keeps us warm at night when we’re sleeping in bed. However, there are times when we also need to give our roof a bit of love and care as well in order to keep it in top condition to protect us. As much as we need our roof, it needs us too.

But how can you protect your roof? There are plenty of ways to clean it, renovate it and even repair it without needing the help of a contractor. However, specialised roof services like Anderson Contractors are invaluable if you need some serious help with the roof over your head. Many roof repairs and renovations require at least two people to perform safely. It’s not recommended to tackle these on your own because it can be incredibly dangerous to climb up a roof on your own unless you have scaffolding set up, which is both expensive and time-consuming.

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Roof repairs can be expensive, but it’s worth the money

DIY roof repairs can save you a lot of money if you’re willing to put some time and effort into learning how to do them. Luckily for you, most roof repairs are easy to carry out assuming you have a bit of help from friends or family. Most of the cost comes down to expertise and experience, which is something you can guarantee your contracting has. When you carry out your own repairs, the majority of the cost will come down to the materials and equipment you need. Thankfully, roof repair and maintenance doesn’t need much equipment besides a few tools to remove shingles and tiles.

Don’t use a pressure cleaner

One of the worst things you can do to your roof is blast it with a pressure cleaner. The strength of the water can lead to many problems in the future, such as loosening tiles or even cracking them under the immense pressure of a specialised cleaning machine. If you want to clean off dirt and grime from your roof with a pressure cleaner, then use the lowest possible setting so that it doesn’t damage your roof. Alternatively, simply use a cloth and a brush to scrape off dirt and grime, or consider using a chemical roof cleaner to get rid of moss.

If your roof is noticeably aged, such as having lots of stains, missing tiles and the shingles are curved or cracked, then it might be time to have your entire roof replaced. Regular roof maintenance can keep its appearances up and help prolong its life, but no roof is sturdy enough to last more than 15 years without a replacement. If you’re going to replace your entire roof, then dedicated lots of days to it in a row so you can finish it in a timely manner. If you can’t make the time, then consider hiring a contractor instead. An ageing roof is susceptible to leaks, letting in rodents and insect infestations, and could even collapse depending on the structural integrity.

BEAUTY, ORGANIC HEALTH & HOME

Let’s Get Physical!

May 23, 2017 TipsfromTia

Let’s Get Physical!

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There are so many ways to get checked out nowadays. Whether it’s phoning a friend for advice, searching the internet for what condition your symptoms match up with or chatting to a doctor online, it’s certainly something that is accessible to you. But what about the things which can’t be diagnosed online? How about utilising the services which are available to us to get a more rounded, balanced opinion on what is wrong?

Why Should I Keep It Physical?

Going and seeing a doctor, optician, pharmacist or any other medical professional in person is the way to get the real deal. There is something that just can’t be described when you’re not there to show it in person. All of the senses need to come into play, especially when the designated person is checking you over. While you may be able to match certain symptoms with a condition online, these people will be able to pinpoint it specifically for you and recommend a course of action or treatment to get you through it. Self-diagnosis can be costly to both you and your healthcare provider if you get the diagnosis wrong in the first place.

If I Can’t See A Qualified Doctor, Who Can Help?

There are so many more qualified people who work within the medical field that will be able to help you with any queries that you may have. If what you are suffering from is urgent, it’s important to get to a hospital straight away. If not, see if you can speak to a nurse or look up the 5 ways your local chemist protects you – these are people who are here to help, and more importantly of all, have had the education to make informed decisions regarding your wellbeing, both physical and mental.

Should I Ditch The Online Searches?

Let’s not get carried away here with just how useful the internet as a tool for research can be. If you know that you are leading onto diseases and illnesses which just seem impossible for you to have acquired, it’s probably time to go and see somebody in person. There are sites where you can have a video conference with a doctor or other registered professional, and this should be used if you are unable to get out of the house to see somebody in person. It’s an amazing tool for this situation.

How Do I Keep Check?

It’s important to keep an eye on what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. For example, how much exercise that you’re doing, how much sleep you’re getting each night and taking note of what you’re eating to keep to a balanced and nutritious diet. It’s things like this which will help you to avoid professionals regarding your health. It’s always good to go for a regular check-up just in case, but unless you really need to, save your visits to make room for those who are in urgent need of some practical care. It’s this which is the best way to look after ourselves and those around us.

ORGANIC HEALTH & HOME, SEX & LIFE

Finding A New Home On The Cheap

May 23, 2017 TipsfromTia

Finding A New Home On The Cheap

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For many people, it might seem impossible to be able to move into a new home without spending a lot of money. On the surface, this might seem to be fair enough. After all, the housing market is something which you can reliably expect to rise and rise, and more and more people each year fail to be in the position of being able to afford a new home. But the fact of the matter is that there are plenty of other options available too, not to mention different ways of thinking about the whole process, which can easily make getting a new home much cheaper and sometimes even faster. Let’s have a look at some of those options now.

Start Small

Perhaps you feel that you will have the necessary money one day, but you just don’t right now. If this sounds like you, then you might want to think about starting small. This is actually quite straightforward to do. You might have your sights set on a fabulous three bedroom detached house, but maybe you need to aim for something smaller first? What about an apartment in the city, for example, or something like a villa? Although it might not be your ideal, the important thing is that it would help you to get your foot on the ladder. Once you’re in, you will be able to build your wealth little by little, until one day you can afford that house of your dreams. Start small, and you will probably feel a lot less overwhelmed by it all.

Build Your Own

Of course, there is no rule that says you have to buy your new home. Increasingly, people over the world are turning to the option of building their own. You might have thought of this and dismissed it instantly as a bad idea, but have you really thought about the implications and benefits of building your own home? First of all, it is usually much cheaper than buying, as you can achieve a lot more for the same kind of money. It’s also true that you will be able to make your home into whatever you want – any style, any size or shape, any location. It is a longer process, for sure, but even the amount of time can be reduced by building something a little simpler than a house. Sites like www.buildloghomes.org can be goldmines of information about how to build alternative homes – and those homes are usually much cheaper to put together, especially when compared to buying a new house. It’s worth considering.

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A New Location

If you’re struggling to find any options in your area, then maybe that just means that it’s time to move to a different area. Look at hoa.org.uk for advice on this topic. There is nothing that says you need to stay in any particular location, and once you start looking further afield you might even run into some locations which are considerably cheaper not only to buy in, but to live in. It’s worth looking at other countries just to be sure that you are finding the best deal for you.

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