House Maintenance & Decluttering

If you have helpful links to people who can help please let me know and I'll add them here. If any of these contacts are no longer working also let me know so I can remove them.

House Maintenance

Window Washing (inside and out)
Andrew Senior 0416 245 718

Plumber
Rightway Plumbing Services (Mick) 0419 649 443

Electrician
Kaytec Electrical (Warren) 0418 114 576

Air Conditioning
Harry Wilcock wilcockairelectric@bigpond.com 0418 660 835

Tree Lopping
Bob and Ben the Tree Men

Carpet Cleaning
PureClean (Craig) 0407 282 018

Gutter Cleaning
Guttervac - have been recommended but I have not used them yet.

Brick Layer
Andrew Gibson 0418 643 645

Builder/Carpenter
Matthew Leach - Meld Constructions
Windows - David Salmon 0419 424 570  a.dsalmon@bigpond.com

Painter
John Chen 0416 094 898

Solar Technologies
Stuart Morell http://www.solartech.com.au/

Mowing
Southside Whip and Snip - Peter 0415 200 841

Pest Management
Southpest, www.southpest.com.au, 029545 5700

Sewing Machine Maintenance
Fred Bott - Heathcote, 02 9520 2562

Old Carpet
I'll take as much as I can get as long as it has not tacks or nails in it. We use it for covering bare ground at Underhill. Contact me if you have some or leave a comment below. Of course it would need to be close enough for us to collect it or delivered for us.

Lawn Rescue
Instructions for revitalising a lawn...
https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/2014/10/30/looking-after-our-lawns

Decluttering

General
Fly Lady - http://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/flying-lessons/decluttering/ has some great ideas as does Marie Kondo.

Books
Florilegium - buys books on Australian natural history, geography, history (technical books).

Fine Music Sydney - has a regular book, CD and record fair. Donations of good quality, fairly new books etc can be collected. Scroll to the bottom of their web page.

Sewing
Achieve Fabric, Needlecraft and More Store (aka Crowle Foundation) - Take donations of all things fabric and haberdashery, even half finished tapestries and embroideries. For those who love to sew the shop is worth a visit.

Mattresses
Landsavers Mattress Recycling - 1300 664 303. They will collect mattresses and bases. There is a charge but it does not go to landfill.

Valuables and Collectibles
Lawsons Auctioneers and Valuers 

Electronic Waste
Officeworks takes electronic waste for recycling.

Document Shredding
National Document Shredding, 1800 757 000
or
Sydney Document Shredding, 1800 001 044, 5/33 Philips Road, Kogarah

Postage Stamps
Uniting Stamps - uniting.stamps@gmail.com, 0412 109 981, Level 2, 222 Pitt Street

Magazines
Who knows anywhere?