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| Home and Garden - Appliances, Furniture & Furnishings |
 Providing additional information about appliances and details of furniture & furnishings. |
| Find Builders in the South East |
 Search for Building Companies in the South East of England includes London, Greater London, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. |
| BR Holland mobile cleaning services |
 B R Holland & Sons Limited are a mobile industrial and building cleaning company. As contractors we use Remmers products. |
| Home improvement with Godfrey |
 Home improvement with Godfrey DIY. Buy online or in store today! |
| Reader's Digest Complete DIY Manual |
 A revised edition in two sections. The first features practical projects for all areas of the home, inside and out. The second covers DIY techniques, tools and materials for jobs ranging from wallpapering and tiling, through plumbing and electrics... |
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| I blame the TV DIY shows |
| If you buy a flat to do up, you may think you are in easy street. This article shows how wrong you can be. |
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| The DIY Revolution
The beginnings of a DIY movement can be traced back to the spate of How-To and Know-How books and pamphlets published in the 1890s.
These guided ordinary people through the complexities of modern living. A later influence was the activities of groups of people with specialised interests, sometimes at work, but more likely for leisure. These included amateur radio constructors, car mechanics, model makers, home fretwork craftsmen, hobbyist woodworkers and, probably the most important, home handicraft workers. The ‘handicrafts’ phenomenon, both before and after the Second World War, was absolutely massive. It was a silent, unsung industry – the ‘profit with pleasure’ culture where families could supplement their income by making handicrafts in their free time in their own homes.
Working as their own boss and at their own pace, handicrafts gave many people valuable practical experience of doing things. It would not prove that big a step from doing handicrafts in the home to working on the home itself.
Rapid social and economic change after the Second World War propelled the DIY movement forward. Peacetime left hundreds of small firms with ‘metal-bashing’ facilities casting around for new markets. Many turned to making DIY products. Other companies capitalised on war-time advances in plastics and adhesives, transforming them into commercial products for DIYers in the 1950s and 1960s. As well as new plastics, glues and adhesives, other items such as new paints, fillers, floor, wall and other surface finishes also appeared.
The public were increasingly being exposed to all these wonderful things through exhibitions, DIY magazines and the full force of television.
Ordinary people wanted to know more about DIY because they would have to do the work themselves. Servants were gone, tradesmen were expensive, home ownership was rising and the housing stock decaying. Fortunately, the Government assisted by offering generous home improvement grants.
Tool manufacturers, such as Black & Decker, Wolf, Bridges, and Stanley, sensing this major shift in users, started to provide ranges of power tools for DIY enthusiasts, a potentially enormous market in comparison to the professional trade. The electric drill became the premier work tool for most DIYers in the late 1950s and 1960s, rivalled only by the famous ‘Workmate’ work bench from the 1970s.
Demand for DIY products forced a revolution in national distribution and retailing of products and services. The traditional ironmongers and builders merchants yielded to the rise of the DIY superstore. The concept of a DIY supermarket was born in Southampton in 1969 when B&Q, Britain’s current market leader, opened a 3,000 square-foot store.
During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the sale of council houses and the rise in house prices added further fuel to the DIY fever. Money was easy to borrow, especially for home improvements. In 1987, £9 billion, twice the annual earnings of UK tourism, was spent on DIY, and 15 per cent of all building materials were customised and sold through the DIY superstores. In 2001, Britons spent a record £23 billion on DIY, the equivalent of £900 per household.
Globalisation of the DIY revolution is encapsulated in the philosophy of IKEA: the Holy Grail of DIY, and founder of mass-produced flat-pack furniture. IKEA is the largest furniture retailer in the world, and its catalogue, of which 110 million copies are produced each year, is more widely distributed than any other book!
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| Build your own house (Part 1) |
 In part 1 of Build your own house you get answers to all of your "ask the builder" type questions....Follow along as pro builder, Brian Boyle, takes you through the initial steps of building a small house (1023 sq.ft.). This simple home is perfect for the first time builder. DIY first home or new to the profession of building. Subscribe to our page and follow along with the progress. Feel free to ask questions. www.HouseBuildingAnswers.com |
| Gutter protection with Guttaflow |
 A revolution in rainwater gutter protection in the UK. Simple to install, no screws, no brackets and no sealant. Debris is washed or blown away and cannot enter the gutter, Independent tests confirm Guttaflow can handle up to 32 times UK rainfall. |
| Consumer Magazine Reports on Gutter Guards |
 The 2010 Consumer magazine gutter guard test is discussed by leading industry authority Alex Higginbotham. "In the fall of 2010, the leading consumer testing magazine finally tested gutter guards. Now, while their testing methodology is not as rigorous as mine, I wasn't in the least bit surprised to find my technology scored highest in both the DIY and dealer installed categories. This patented technology of a filter over a downward extending plane, is one that I continue to improve upon and advance. And all of these improvements and advancements have been brought together in MasterShield." "Master builder, syndicated news columnist and creator of Askthebuilder.com, Tim Carter, tested MasterShield and compared it against the product from the magazine test. You may not know it, but as a builder, Tim has been telling people for years not to install gutter guards. But after coming across my technology, he decided to do a test of products on his own home. Under months and months of real world conditions, he allowed each product to be installed by the manufacturer. He chose a spot under one of the most dirtiest, most debris shedding trees I've ever come across." "Now, it's been several years since that test and Tim has not changed his mind on the system that he chose for his own home-- my MasterShield Gutter Protection." |
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