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Hotel luggage racks come with or without a raised back, in metal or wood, and the choice shows up on your walls. This guide compares the Corby Ashton metal rack, with and without a back, against the York wooden rack on listed size, weight, strap load and price. It works through a ten-room cost example, covers what BPCA says about bed bugs and furniture, and lists the ordering mistakes that cost time. Prices and stock were checked on 9 November 2026.

Hard water carries dissolved calcium and magnesium, and heat turns them into limescale on kettle elements, iron soleplates and shower heads. This plain-English guide explains how hard water in hotels is measured, why it shortens the life of guest-room equipment, and what a sensible descaling routine looks like. It also covers the softener catch, when scale becomes a hot water safety issue under HSE guidance, and which steel kettles, steam irons and handset shower heads we stock at trade prices.

Home Office guidance lets the smallest B&Bs and guest houses in England rely on bedroom torches instead of fixed escape lighting. There is a catch: they must be rechargeable torches that light automatically when the mains fails, one per bedroom with a sign. Many hospitality torches, including popular lift-to-light wall models, do not work that way. This guide explains what the guidance permits, which premises it covers, and when a building needs proper BS 5266-1 fittings instead.

A guest complained her room kettle kept tripping the socket, and maintenance found the element had been failing for weeks. Nobody had tested it since the welcome tray went in two refurbishments earlier. A hotel kettle is a portable appliance under the same duty of care as any other guest-room equipment, which means it needs PAT testing even though nobody owns it the way an electrician owns a consumer unit. This guide covers why welcome trays get overlooked on testing schedules, what the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 actually requires, and what a sensible, risk-based testing interval looks like for daily-use hospitality kettles.

In-room ironing causes two headaches nobody budgets for: scorched carpet from an iron left face-down, and irons that quietly walk out in suitcases. This guide covers how to spec guestroom and laundry ironing that solves both — auto shut-off irons, anti-theft ironing centres, and the right board and storage for each room.

A boutique hotel swapped every room's iron for a garment steamer and had business guests asking reception for an iron within a month. Here's what a steamer can and can't do, the full Corby range at a glance, and why most properties end up needing both.

A 24-room guest house lost six portable hair dryers to theft and drops in three months. The wall-mounted upgrade cost more per room but ended both problems. Here's wall-mounted vs portable vs trigger-activated, what BS 7671 bathroom zones actually mean for fitting position, and the real refurb cost.

A hotel safe isn't just an amenity line item. Under the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956, whether you provide and offer one changes your actual liability for lost guest property. Here's which Corby model fits which room tier, and what the law actually says about the safe you're not maintaining.

Glass-door minibars sell more, lockable minibars get used more quietly. Here's the honest comparison between Corby Eton's two minibar formats, real energy draw and noise numbers, and a sizing table by property type.