Very early in my Yelp career I likened a restaurant (Bloom I think) to the Tardis - a place that…read moreseemed to be impossibly big given the frontage of the shop etc.... but nothing prepared me for this place which really did shock the pants off me (I put them back on immediately, no more court cases for Q please!) Sextons Garden centre is a modest wee shop in a line of shops, you go in, realise they are quite stuck for space - they must be, everything is orderly but crammed in there - then wander down to the back of the shop, then realise 3 years later you are still wandering. The back of the shop is HUGE, really, it opens out to an outdoor area offering all manner of fountains, shrubs, compost yada yada yada. They have just about anything you need for the garden - plants and hardware and from now on I shall be going here instead of Woodies.

What a wonderful group of people working in Woodie's/Sandyford. Callie/Jen/the garden section with…read moresuch knowledge. The new guy on the tills. Just a joyous experience with happy, kind and helpful staff. You take the time to look after your customers so well. Anne

Went to woodies to get a plumbing pipe and connections the pipe was 3 meters long. I asked if I or…read moresomeone could cut the plastic pipe in 3 ,1 meter sections. This DIY shop could not or provide me with a cutting tool went to B&Q where they can never going to woodies again

This is a review specifically concentrating on the Habitat tiling range in Homebase…read more I went into Homebase to purchase tiles from their Habitat range. It says on the stand that they take 14 days to deliver. Grand, I knew it was going to be a push for my builders, but I thought, these will be worth it. Firstly, they don't have any samples to look at of the tiles, except the ones that are fixed to the stand, so you have to use your imagination to see what goes with what. They also don't have them in any brochure, and it seems that most of the staff there have no idea about the range. When I finally found someone who could help me (who did try her best to be fair), she told me that there was "no point" in me buying these tiles from the store, because they could sometimes take two months for delivery. She advised me to buy the products from the website as then they would arrive within a week. So off I went to do that. Fine, until I realised that they don't deliver to Republic of Ireland. Great. Luckily enough I had discovered Parcel Motel (an 'in-between' company who have a Newry address who will receive your package, then forward onto you for a nominal fee). I went to order the tiles, then realised that actually most of the ones displayed in the store were in fact unavailable on the website. I was so sick of it all at this stage that I just changed the colour scheme and went ahead to order whatever was available. I got confirmation that the goods would arrive within 14 days. That was five weeks ago now and there's no sign. I have called Homebase several times since and had various answers from them, most recently that the tiles are actually out of stock. They have no idea when they will be back in stock, as they buy them in from Habitat. They never thought in all this time that perhaps if they were out of stock, that they should ring me, the customer, to let me know. They never thought that the hold up on these tiles is actually holding up an entire building project. I'm now waiting for their manufacturer to call me to let me know what's happening with them. I've been advised that if I don't hear from them, I should call Homebase back in 48 hours. I presume that will result in me waiting on hold for another half an hour, busily paying the phone bill for such a call. Absolutely terrible service, I would never buy anything like this from them again.

Everything you need for redecorating your house- great offers on paint (we saved 78 euro) and nick…read moreknacks and they have lovely habitat furniture too. The staff were very helpful but we had to wait around for half an hour to get paint mixed.

Well laid out although they seem to have cut back on some of their product range. Plenty of parking…read moreand help in getting any bought goods to your car. I have to admit that I am one of these annoying people who never seem able to find what they are looking for so now I just grab someone who knows - checking first that they do work there I hasten to add. There was one day when there is 10% discount for OAP's so 'Grab a Grannie' and go shopping. In my case it is 'Grab a Great Grandmother' as I am still not old enough to benefit. Ring first and find out which is the discount day or if they still do it but from memory I think it may have been Thursday.

This little gem of a hardware shop in Killiney Shopping Centre is where you can find all the bits…read moreyou are looking for and also bits you did not realise you needed.

A small and very compact little shop which stocks just about everything!…read more They also do useful things like key cutting and had odd things like house numbers!

Not so much a shop as a cubby hole with a counter in it, Merrion Hardware, definitely won't have…read moreanything you can't fit under the stairs for sale. What they do sell is weird trinket type things that teenage boys love, like laser pointers and pocket knives (no longer allowed what with the all the death and all). It's here that I bought my first wallet chain, eight-ball keyring and neon-green springy rubber key string-thingy.