Wow! This place really manages to pack in a TON of DIY and household stuff. You will be amazed by…read moreeverything they stock. If you live around here, you can save yourself a trip to Rapid and buy your hammer, saw, gloves, or garden stuff here. Definitely a great little DIY shop that provides all the basics and essentials for pretty darned good prices. They don't have *everything*, but they do have a lot.

Simply the best. A real "four candles" hardware store, they never let me down, helped me out hugely…read morewith many orders including sourcing parts, bulk discounts and free deliveries. Ralphs DIY is everything you ever wanted from a hardware store.

Bought a item and found it to be faulty, Handy Jacks point blank refused to give a refund and…read morewanted to give a credit note only or exchange for other products. Trading standards have been informed.

This store is a very handy store i have been here many times for the odd bits i have needed for…read morearound the house. They sell a very big range from light bulbs, fuses, plumbing equipment, plugs, spare cables, bike accessories and much more. The store is very cramped and you will never find anything but the staff will be happy to help and know where everything is and will help you in every way they can.

Set on a side street that has easy parking proved to be deserving of previous reviews of excellence…read more. On entering this small store I became aware of the Tardis like place that it is, since my list contained electrical needs, glass replacement, glue, and brass brush to clean metal. All requirement were satisfied including advise. A far better choice than a large departmental type store where you can never find help and have to walk miles to find what you need for a small project. If your a home owner this is the place to start for that thing that will silence the wife and earn you Boy Scout point!

This is one of those shops which is so handy its hard to explain. They're officially a hardware…read moreshop and they're tucked away in a residential street but they're very very busy and rightly so. They sell everything you can think of that's remotely hardware-ish and although the prices are more than, say, the supermarket, they're dead handy so you don't mind. They're reliably open, they have a lot of staff so can always serve you and advise you. They don't mind you bobbing in just for advice, even when you don't buy anything. There's usually some kind of parking along the nearby streets so that's not a problem. There's a reassuring smell of hardware-shop-timber when you walk in - its defintely a man's domain! Lovely.

Tramway stables, cow sheds, motor bus proprietors, telephone call office, picturedrome, cinema,…read moreknitwear factory and DIY store- never has a building had such a varied history as the one that is now the Handyman's Supermarket. It's worth visiting if only to catch a whiff of sawdust, also known as the international smell representing things getting done, manfully. This is a store that looks at glossy bungler-havens like B&Q before shaking its head and smiling with a faint air of pity. The place is so comfortable in its mettle that it doesn't need to tidy up. Tools and bits of wood are strewn across the bare floorboards and you half expect the back corner to be occupied by a burly blacksmith belting a horse-shoe into shape. That's not to say it's arrogant. The staff here are superlatively helpful and will listen with eager patience as you waffle on about what angle of doorstop you need or what kind of hammer you require to wrench nails out of a botched picture frame. Then they shall find the item within arm's reach, making you feel like an utter cretin. Also, they cut keys.

Oh this is more like it. A real manly shop amidst the students and namby pamby bohemians of…read moreSmithdown. A place a man can get any hardware and, tool stuff he needs to, chop things and, drill stuff. I went in purely to have a look around for a review and see what is what. I have very little need to often shop in these places, even when working for tv drama art departments I tend to just have a bash at hammering something with anything heavy and blunt or just use gaffer tape - usually solves any problem. So I went in. Yep, screws, drills, hinges. Until I was asked 'need any help?' And obviously not wanting to look a complete pleb by giving the usual 'just looking' - because I am in a specialist, hardware shop and must have reason for being there - I ended up leaving with a tube of polyfilla and and a bag of nails. Damn this male pride.