DIY in general Reviews

Hands up I admit it: DIY has never been my thing. I have an O'level in woodwork but that doesn’t mean I can fit a shower now does it? So why doesn’t my wife listen to this? When we first got married and moved into our new house, we had loads of jobs to do around the house. The previous owners hadn’t really ...  Read the complete review

“I wish you’d told me that BEFORE I bought the bricks!” This isn’t meant to be a step-by-step guide to the process of building your own house, but as someone who’s seen how it happens (my parent’s house), I thought I’d write out a few pointers to the major issues – things I think it ...  Read the complete review

The British, as a nation, seem to have embraced DIY on a huge scale. Why pay an expert, when you can do it yourself? Televisions stations, both terrestrial and satelite/cable have an amazing array of programmes to show beginners how to start out, and some shows on satellite cater specifically to the more adventurous home-improver. ...  Read the complete review

With so much attention focused on D.I.Y. these days it`s hard to know where to start. Television and magazines bombard us with so many ideas for our homes that it could make your head hurt. So once you`ve finally decided what you want to do, you then have to work out how to do it. Obviously we don`t all have builders or carpenters in ...  Read the complete review

Having retired early from a largely sedentary and pen-pushing, or rather “keyboard-poking” managerial job last year, I decided set about improving my hand-work skills, since if the truth be known, this has always been something that I felt I would be good at, and the past 30 years of weekend DIY have not dissuaded me of this. (Chalk up ...  Read the complete review

I have a great desire to do D.I.Y realising what joy you can get from seeing the results. I think programs like home improvement, house invaders have really given people inspiration to D.I.Y. I recently put together some flatpack furniture for a friend. I know its not the best however if its done properly the finished product can look really ...  Read the complete review

DIY is one of our favourite past times nowadays, and most people are doing it. Whenever some wallpaper or similar needs doing, then we all take up the challenge and "do it ourself". But in my mind, I do not treat DIY as a chore, I find it quiye fun to do, and at least keeps me occupied on a rainy day. My skills at it are not ...  Read the complete review

If you ever have a tradesman to do some work for you then like me you have probably been impressed with the speed that they can tackle any job. One of the main reasons that a professional can undertake his work is that he has the correct tools. If you try to undertake any DIY job then it is really worth investing in the right tools. This ...  Read the complete review

Our DIY story ------------- After painting our living room half and half we needed something to break up the two colours, but what? We didn't want yet another border in our house and a nice crisp line was a no go especially on an embossed wall paper. Solution dado rail. As per usual we went full steam ahead and ...  Read the complete review

I have just purchased a little toy called a Nail Gripper and it is brilliant. It is triangular in shape and holds the small nails that normally make you smash your fingers with the hammer when you're hammering them in. With the Nail Gripper, you just grip the nail in a rubber slot. Your fingers are well out of the way and you can still place ...  Read the complete review

I was astonished to hear 'Craig', from Big Brother fame, on a daytime DIY/Home improvements TV show reveal the fact that one person a day (or was it week?) dies from falling off a ladder in the UK. Either way if it was one a week or day this is alot! Is there either no common sense out there amongst people using ladders or are the health ...  Read the complete review

I work in a local woodyard called Bedford Timber Supplies. We have been stocking Quickgrip for a while now and I always get people telling me how good it is and how everybody should use it instead of using nails. I wasn’t sure exactly how good it was but I knew it must be reasonably good from all of the reports that I have received ...  Read the complete review

It looks and performs just like a conventional 'pull-out' tape measure but with one very special addition - it talks. This precision tool has an electronic voice, which announces the length of tape drawn from the main unit. It is accurate to 1mm or 1/16" depending on which of the four modes, metres, centimetres, millimetres or feet ...  Read the complete review