I had a lot of leisure pre march-out, so took Brasso and rags into the cellar and polished the many and various copper and brass pipes and fittings in the boiler room.
Pet hate at Brize in the blocks that in the late 80's we were still polishing the brass window latches, that should have died a death with polishing buttons years earlier, however visiting a friends room I noticed they had replaced his with aluminium ones, so a quick visit to Halford and a rattle can of wheel aluminium paint, we all had them.. And no one was any the wiser.