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DIY Advice
Find Compare And Hire DIY Tools With Erento
Erento the world’s largest and fastest growing online rental marketplace, has partnered with many of the UK’s leading hire companies to dramatically simplify the process of finding, comparing and hiring DIY and garden tools.
It is now possible to search online for a particular rental item, such as a lawn mower or power drill, by location as well as price and instantly find the most appropriate service.
Thanks to the credit crunch and the weak pound, many of us are planning to take a ‘staycation’ this year to embark upon a DIY or garden project; so rather than spending your savings on gardening and DIY tools, it may be worth considering renting them instead:
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‘Future Of The Family Home’ Report – B&Q Predicts
To celebrate its 40th Birthday, DIY giant B&Q has commissioned a ‘Future of the Home’ report looking into – what will the family home of the future look like? to see just how we’ll be living in the next 10, 20 and 40 years.
One of the main factors that will affect UK housing stock in the future – will be the need for space.
Predictions expect the UK population to rise a staggering 77.2 million by 2051, so space is going to be at an absolute premium; also the ever-increasing fluidity of personal and family circumstances will also have a major impact on the way we live and use our homes.
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RotoZip X-Cores – A Revolution In Diamond Tooling
When you’re laying hard tiles or stone flooring, one of the trickiest jobs is cutting the holes for electrical and plumbing outlets – carbide-tipped masonry drill bits are just not man enough for the job and angle grinders can weaken the tile, often causing it to break.
But now, thanks to a revolution in diamond tooling, you can make clear cuts without blow-out in the very hardest materials including porcelain, granite, marble and natural stone.
The new RotoZip X-Cores are the fastest hole saw bits on the market; in combination with RotoZip Spiral Saws, they make light work of difficult freehand cuts in all hard tiles and stone.
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New ZONE Garden Studios By Potton
A new concept in garden studios, set to change the face of working from home, will be on display at the National Self Build & Renovation Show in Swindon next month.
Surveys show flexible working is becoming increasingly popular – with just over three million workers now based at home, rather than in the office.
Designed with the home -worker in mind, ZONE by Potton is a brand new range of stylish, contemporary designs that not only look amazing, but also great to work in, surprisingly affordable and can be built in a matter of days.
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Dremel Revs Up With A Lego Promotion
Dremel has teamed up with the world-famous Lego brand to create a promotion that kids and adults alike will love. The Lego Creator pack comes entirely free of charge – attached to the packaging – with purchases of a Dremel 300 or 400 Digital multi-tool*.
The instant reward of the Lego Creator three-in-one pack, means you can build a monster truck, a fantasy sci-fi saloon car, or your ultimate F1 driving machine as soon as you get home.
The promotion runs until the end of August 2009.
Dremel multi-tools are used worldwide for creative, modelling and DIY tasks including sanding, routing, polishing, drilling and cutting through all kinds of materials thanks to Dremel’s huge range of 150 different accessories.
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Frustrated Homeowners Become Homebuilders
Britain’s housing market is one of the biggest casualties of the economic turmoil, plagued with falling house prices, repossessions, a collapsed house-building industry, mass redundancies and restricted mortgage lending.
In the face of such problems, self-build and renovation specialist BuildStore is reporting a huge rise in demand for its services, as the nation’s frustrated homeowners take matters into their own hands.
BuildStore has noted a significant increase in demand for self-build land and renovation properties through its land database, PlotSearch; current subscription levels to the online service are up over 140% on levels six months ago; in the last three months, since January 2009, subscription levels are up almost 50%.
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Grand Designs Live Show 2009 At ExCeL London.
Looking for design, innovation and inspiration for your home? Then a visit to the Grand Designs Live Show, from the 25th April to 4th May, 2009 at ExCeL London, is a must for you.
Grand Designs Live offers Six Separate Shows from Design, Interiors, Building, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Gardens and also the Grand Village and brings together over 500 exhibitors.
For example there is the Grand Interiors — a cutting-edge, contemporary interior designs collection from the world of furnishing, accessories and decoration, offering the ultimate in home design to suit all tastes.
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Spruce Up Your Home for Spring With MyHammer
After all the DIY mistakes Brits made last year, we forked out over £180million on getting someone in to fix them – Households throughout the UK have on average four jobs that need doing at any one time and with the constraints of the credit crunch, Britons are realising they need to ensure their hard-earned cash is spent wisely.
Bob Swift, MyHammer’s UK Director, comments: “The Brits do like to try their hand at DIY but it seems it doesn’t always work out; MyHammer saves consumers time and money, meaning you can plan your home improvement projects according to your budget.â€
MyHammer’s top tips to find a good tradesman, for those who’d rather sit back and relax:
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Upgrade Your Eco- Credentials With Ecomerchant
As one of the UK’s largest suppliers of sustainable building materials, natural insulation is just one of many products offered by Ecomerchant, to enable us to minimise our environmental impact.
Ecomechant have once again explored the ‘eco’ possibilities and offer a fantastic range of natural insulations, at affordable prices.
Whether you are insulating a new build or renovating an existing property, installing natural insulation is an easy step, to support the development of energy efficient and eco-friendly buildings.
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The Novel Hands Free Wall Stripper From Earlex
UK manufacturer Earlex, are leaders in decorating power tools and equipment and inventors of the world’s first DIY wallpaper stripper in 1988.
If the arrival of friends and family over the festive period, has prompted a pre-Christmas decorating blitz, then an Earlex Hands-Free Steam Wallpaper Stripper is a must have, as it will help you accomplish your stripping in no time.
The innovative world’s only hands-free stripper, creates a vacuum under the steam plate, allowing it to fix itself against walls or ceilings, so that you’ve got two spare hands for removing the previously softened patches.
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