DIY guides for everything, written by experts.
Our step by step how to guides aim to help you with your DIY and home improvement projects. You’ll find practical advice on all aspects of Do It Yourself in the different sections – from emergency plumbing repairs and fixing central heating problems to plastering, painting, tiling and wallpapering. We have helpful hints and tips as well as product and material reviews plus notes on safety and regulations.
Expert building guides
Guides and advice to help you tackle a huge range of building projects. Whether you need to fix a squeaky floorboard or damp proof your basement, our building advice centre has you covered.
Decorating ideas and guides
Take the headache out of decorating and easily transform your home with decorating advice from seasoned professionals.
Tool reviews
Good, reliable tools that don’t break the bank make DIY much easier. Get the lowdown on the best tools.
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Pain Free Picture Hanging with Takker
“Takker – The ingeniously simple wall hanging kit”. Following a successful appearance on the Irish Dragons Den Takker is now launching in the UK Diyfixit was invited to take a look at the new device for hanging pictures called the Takker. We tried it out and were pretty impressed. The device itself looks a bit…
Read these tips before employing tradesmen
Finding a decent tradesman to work on your house can be a big headache if you don’t know anyone. That horrible feeling of “will I get ripped off” or “I don’t have a clue where I’m going to find a reliable plumber, electrician, plasterer etc” is no fun. Most of us have been there at…
Influences on house prices
It has been revealed in The Telegraph that parents are willing pay an extra £8,670 on buying a new property in order to get in the catchment area for a good primary school. The figures come from research conducted by Nationwide Building Society who say that simply living near a school where pupils get 10%…