Archive for the ‘Tips and advice’ Category

How to choose power tools

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Looking for a little help? We’ll do our best for you.

With Christmas on the way we’ve put together a guide to buying power tools. Now, this could serve as a briefing for present-buying for the DIY fanatic in your life, a handy hint sheet to print out and leave lying casually round the place, or even a shopping list to get you launched on that New Year project you swore you’d get started on. After all, what better time to take advantage of the sales?

Upshot is, this might not be quite the minefield you fear, as long as you put a bit of thought into it and make sure you don’t just grab at the first thing you come across.

Read AllTheToolsYouNeed.com’s top 10 tips for buying power tools here.

Make sure you’re snug for winter

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

It’s National Maintenance Week! But all you DIYers don’t need a special event to encourage you to get on top of home improvements.

We know that you’ve been looking after your properties year-round, and so won’t have a backlog of jobs to do. Well, apart from that niggling little problem you’ve been meaning to solve for a while. Then there’s that thing you knew you needed to get sorted out before it got cold…

And now it’s cold…

The National Maintenance Week website has got a host of tips and advice for anyone looking after a building, especially an old one. So we suggest going along and having a look.

Another great source of seasonal advice is the Wickes Winter Factsheet which points you in the direction of a few necessary jobs you might have missed.

Have fun, and be careful out there.