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DIY Shops - Comments & Comparison |
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22.10.01 (380 review reads) |
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Advantages: Small shops good
Disadvantages: Big shops bad
Why am I saying this, well all will soon become clear!
Many years ago, one of my first jobs was as a building labourer. I have dabbled in various occupations relating to to making, fixing, demolishing, creating, you name it and I have probably bodged it! In doing so I have also become a keen Do-It-Yourself enthusiast and frequented every Building/Gardening store in the process. So I feel amply qualified to spread a few words on the subject of these large temples of the would be home improver. This is what I have to say!
Large stores such as Homebase and similar establishments are taking you to the cleaners and laughing all the way to the bank! Why I hear you scream, because they gain virtually all of their sales on the fact that you know very little about Home improvement products and thier true costs. Lets face it, why do you go to a big store and ignore your little local builder's merchants. Because you don't, really know what you are looking for perhaps? You feel awkward about asking for a thingamyjig for your duburywhatsit? Or do you just believe that the bigger stores will be more honest?
My advice to anyone planning a new home improvement or perhaps gardening project would be this. Go to you little local hardware store or gardening centre. Large stores charge far more than these little stores. They know you are not sure about the price. They know you are embarrassed to ask questions and will choose the more expensive option and easier option of looking around and blending in with the crowd rather than confronting an expert, face to face.
Your local hardware store will be far cheaper, trust me on this one. The friendly (all right sometimes grumpy!) shop keeper will know far more about the products than your average part time Saturday worker in Homebase, who has trouble telling you where the products are on the shelves let alone how to use them properly. The shopkeeper takes pride in his shop. It&#
39;s his business and him personally that you will come back to if you get the wrong product, so it is in his own interest to help and advise you correctly. Homebase sells plants but they die when you get them home, because they have been watered reluctantly and usually inadequately. This doesn't happen in a specialist garden centre and again the knowledge lies firmly with the experts. So use their knowledge!
My advice to any Home improvement nuts or would be gardeners. Be brave, be strong, do your wallet a favour and go to you local shops and forget the big DIY centres. Get your plants from the experts. There is a fountain of knowledge out there and you will gain far more from these people than you ever will from the big stores who can only really give your finances a pasting!
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