Colin & Justin: Doing Your Homework ; This Week, the Guys Offer Some Priceless Cost-Cutting Ideas to Keep Your House in Tip-Top Condition

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Excuse us if we come across all Women's Institute but we're on a J and C top tip mission this week. As John Steinbeck said in Of Miceand Men "...we're clipping coupons and living off the fat of the land...". And us? Well, we're practising what we preach - it's mortgage, service charge and car insurance time so we're pulling up our financial socksThank heavens, then, we've been filming with Isilda, a wonderful Caribbean cleaning lady who has, it seems, a recipe up her sleeve for every domestic crisis. Indeed, whether washing windows with vinegar and newspaper or using CAR chrome cleaner to get the best shine from your Smeg hob - our lady has an answer for anything.

And so it came to pass that, after a period under the watchful eye ofIsilda, we've started to obsess about the costs involved in running our lives... and our homes. Who knows - maybe we'll write another best seller on the subject (our last tome The Million Pound Property Experiment became the WH Smith Lifestyle Book Of The Year - as voted for by you, dear readers) but in the meantime we've put together an assembly of hints, tips and time savers to get the best from your abode on a daily basis.

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Colin & Justin: Doing Your Homework ; This Week, the Guys Offer Some Priceless Cost-Cutting Ideas to Keep Your House in Tip-Top Condition

So first things first - paintwork. And our advice about making it look good for as long as possible... Keep any unused product stored in a tin but - and here's the science bit - store upside down to avoid that virtually impenetrable skin that forms underneath the lid due to the air gap which effectively changes end. Still on paint, when you need ...

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