Home Improvement News Headlines in Brief

This weeks Home Improvement News headlines in brief:

Autumn the "season of home improvement' says National Council:

This is Autumn is being dubbed the 'season of home improvement' by the National Home Improvement Council, who predict that homeowners will will be paying particular attention to their home's insulation and energy efficiency in case of another severe winter.

The story, highlighted by Insurers AXA reckons that last years winter - the harshest for 30 years - will see homeowner's focused on making their properties more resilient to extremes of weather.

Think back to last Winter - cars were stranded, emergency services struggled to reach people and when pedestrians had to resort to crawling across icy roads just to cross the street.

AXA's director of protection marketing reckons the focus should be on educating people to think about how things may interrupt their daily lives. This includes ensuring that their homes (both buildings and contents) as well as themselves have enough cover to lessen the effect of any future crisis. be that property related or medical related - many people were injured during the bad weather and unable to work as a result of their injuries.


When is a local company not a local company:

Sometimes, we see feedback from a homeowner questioning the fact that one of the companies we've been able to recommend to them isn't local. This can raise doubts as to the credentials of the company concerned. Part of our service, after all, is trying to find you up to 3 local companies to confirm your online enquiry in writing.

Rest assured, the system is working. What's happening is a company will have only entered their 'head office' details in the contact details a homeowner sees, when they login to their secure area to see which companies we're recommending their details to.

We deal with both national and local companies to try and give you as broad a spectrum of comparison quotes as possible. So even though a larger company may show an address many miles from you, sometimes in a completely different part of the country, it'll be a local branch that will respond to your enquiry and if you go ahead with them, ultimately carry out the work too.


Kitchen Quoter feedback - straight from the horses mouth:

"Just wanted to say, how brilliant my kitchen is now looking, Matt did a great job, he was very efficient, professional, polite, friendly and humourus. As he carried out the work and kept me informed of the progress, he also kept within my budget!! I would recommend him to anyone wanting to put together a new kitchen, he was not only helpful in his ideas (due to experience), but guided us to some things we had not thought of!! Brilliant workmanship!! Well Done Matt & and a big thank you!! "

To get your online Kitchen Quote - click here and visit Kitchen Quoter.

With a new focus on homeowner feedback...

If you've been visiting home improvement quotes .co.uk over the last few days, you'll have seen the big re-design take shape before your very eyes.

You'll have also noticed the slight change in the way we're now able to help you with your home improvement project - for the better.

You can still get an instant online quote for over 17 different home improvement projects, but now, once you've visited one of our 'Quoter websites and got a quote, you'll be able to access homeowner feedback - the good, the indifferent and the bad on local companies to you, to help you choose the right company for your project.

If you go onto use our local company matching service (which is still completely FREE), we'll also be asking you if you would like to add your own feedback and help other homeowners make the best decision for them.

Homeowner feedback - with tens of thousands of comments and star ratings left so - we're one of the most knowledgeable home improvement company database services in the UK and certainly one of the most open - you get to see all the comments, not just the good ones.

Click here to give our new look / new benefit home improvement quotes website a try and find out more about how we use your feedback to help over 3,500 other homeowners every week.