This is a small DIY/hardware store conviniently placed in the kestral road . You get everything…read moreranging from brooms/mops, buckets, paints, flooring , cement to light bulbs in this store. There is a good selection of alpines and other seasonal plants to be bought quite resonably as well from this store.(these are generally kept outside). The store person is chatty and helpful( helps you move larger stuff to the car if you can't do it yourself), however being a hardware store the interiors can hardly be caleld spik and span.

The staff talk whilst they are serving and there was a pool of water left on the floor with no…read morehazard signs left out which was dangerous and unhelpful staff

Neighbourhood hardware/DIY store / woodyard. They may not have quite as wide a selection as a huge…read moreout-of-town shed but they are far more friendly and helpful, even to complete DIY ignoramuses like me.

This shop i situated just off the High Street in Jefferies Street in the bit that is one way before…read moreyou get to the station coming from Chatham end of town. They sell all kinds of hardware in the shop like nails, screws, paints, glues and tools and then outside they have a big wood yard where you can buy timber and boards. They also sell things like fencing panels and other garden bits. The staff are very helpful and if you are not sure what you need to buy for a job you can explain it to them and they will help you find what you need.

This is a small convinience DIY store from which I bought an indicator bulb for my car last week…read more It is near my house so I could just walk down and get it near lunch time on a sunday , however I would rather go to some bigger DIY store if I wanted something in bulk I guess as the prices were fairly high as would be expected in such shops. They had a good collection of gardening items , building material and all the other items you can find in a DIY store.