How To Get Money From Your Loft
How To Get Money From Your Loft: Brought to VideoJug by Marshall Benjamin, UK TV's Lorne Spicer reveals how to make money just by clearing out the attic. Use that money to insulate your loft and you really are saving hundreds of pounds. So watch this film and learn how to get money from your loft.
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Home Information Pact
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For many people who are thinking about selling their properties coming up to the summer months, the three words “Home Information Pact” will send shivers down your spine, and as of the first of June, what we all were going to need to know is what its all about.
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Loft Insulation
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Now one part of it is the energy performance certificate, which measures the efficiency of your home. Now a big bonus to boost the efficiency of your home is loft insulation.
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Step 3:
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Sell your junk!
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Now I’m up here in my loft, I’ve cleaned up a few things and I’ve been told that I am sitting on a gold mine. So I’m with a lovely Lauren Spicer. Lauren, have you seen anything, what has caught your eye here today? Well, if your like most people who got a lot of junk they consider up in their loft, but in fact, someone’s trash is another man’s treasure and it’s the case here. You’ve got a lot toys for example, Lego in particular is very popular, things like Playmobile, always a market for those at boot sales, where collectors go around looking for those items. Toys related to films, like star wars toys, or television, like the Magic Roundabout, that kind of at thing, always have a value. Then you’ve got things like the fan there, now that is a modern example of a much older 1950’s design. So if it belonged to grandma or grandpa, chances are it’s an original 1950’s one, which of course means it become very collectible and has a value. So yes there are plenty of items here, you’ve got a violin. Instruments are always popular, they’re so expensive to buy new, there’s always a person in boot sales looking for second hand instruments.
And how much money you reckon, any normal person can actually make out of all the junk they have in their attic? Just from the junk in their attic alone, the average semi-detached house has between two to five hundred pounds. That doesn’t include anywhere else in the house. So we know how much money I’ve got in my attic, but how much is it going to cost me to insulate my attic? Let’s find out.
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Benefits of insulation
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And how much money you reckon, any normal person can actually make out of all the junk they have in their attic? Just from the junk in their attic alone, the average semi-detached house has between two to five hundred pounds. That doesn’t include anywhere else in the house. So we know how much money I’ve got in my attic, but how much is it going to cost me to insulate my attic? Let’s find out.Here at Venque it cost the average household about three hundred pounds to install insulation. It’s real easy to lay, just lay amongst your choice within your home and put flooring down. The advantages of insulation in your home are obviously it will keep your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer. The average home will save approximately three hundred pounds a year, and is also good for the environment. It will reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. But for more information on how to get your home more efficient, do visit DIY.com
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Cover your costs.
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So Lauren, how much do you think I have here in total? We’ll in a good boot sale, in a good day, you should make between three and four hundred pounds. If you find it it’s not raining of course. Well it looks like I got more enough to polish of the attic and a little bit of spare for me as well