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Why It’s Important to Service & Maintain Your Equipment   Take a moment and think about your business and processes. What’s your most important asset? If you said your equipment, then you’d be right on the money.   Without the ability to remove insulation from a loft or cavity wall efficiently, effectively, and safely, there’s really not much you can do. And if your client is banking on you finishing on time ready for new insulation being put in, you need to ensure that you’re providing a timely service that really delivers on your promise. When your income relies on...

Here at Extract Vac, we have a vision: We want to see improved standardisation in the cavity wall extraction industry, generating greater consistency in technique and equipment usage to provide homeowners with predictable results, every time. The Problem One of the biggest issues in the cavity wall extraction sector today is unpredictability. As the number of businesses offering insulation removal services increases, we’re seeing more and more deviation in the processes and tools that are used to extract, clean, and prepare a space for a new installation. This means that homeowners can never be sure what to expect, nor can...

Loose-fill, blown-in insulation is one of the most common types of insulation found in UK loft spaces today. Insulating materials are blown into the space using a machine, ensuring that all holes and cracks are filled to prevent heat loss through the roof and help homeowners to reduce the amount of energy used in heating their properties. However, not only is it one of the most popular, it’s also one of the most likely types of insulation to need replacing, too. This type of insulation absorbs moisture easily leading to problems with damp and mould. It also makes an excellent...

It’s often said that Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, failed 10,000 times before succeeding. And while there’s really no solid proof that Edison ever admitted to facing such a challenge, what we do know is that he told Harper’s Monthly magazine in 1890 that he had ‘constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently to be true.  Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory’. You don’t always hit the jackpot on your first try. In the Formula One 2022 season, for...