We recently bought a home in Balham and I have been coming to this shop quite a bit for various DIY…read moreneeds and products. It is not big by any means but they have had the products needed on site for everything we've needed done, apart from one large toolbox, which I ordered for pick-up the next day. You can order you anything you need from an endless stack of DIY catalogs for pick up at their shop next day. I am new to DIY and the best part of going to Force is the professional advice the owner is happy to provide. He is very honest (even if it means selling you a cheaper, more appropriate product than an expensive one you may have been planning to buy from him). His advice is also clear, simple, and optimistic that you can easily achieve your DIY goals. So far he has never said he couldn't help us or something couldn't be done. He has always had a simple easy solution and the products to support it. In case you have a specific DIY need, some of the items he has helped with and provided the perfect products for include: 1) a new rubber liner for our shower splash guard (by the way, Home Base told us we had to contact the splash guard's maker, but Force had the perfect universal liner for all splash guards in stock) 2) fixing a shower head issue 3) replacing the Swiss plugs of our appliances with British plugs (we just came from Switzerland and have about 10 appliances that needed it) 4) relocating a light switch 5) Painting a built in shelf 6) Filling some wall damage in with the right filler 7) Finding the right drill and drilling to fix some items to the wall 8) Fighting a slug infestation 9) Reconstructing the inside of a fixed wardrobe with new clothes hanging poles Also, the shop seems to be well stocked with paints, bathroom equipment, yard tools, and, of course, your various DIY odds and ends. I have also been amazed at how cheap many of his products are. Additionally, he has often given me free small items to accompany my jobs when I make a purchase or he has offered to exchange a few of my smaller purchases for the better, more expensive version free of change when I am checking out. The owner of Force is simply a nice guy who's standing by to help you with anything you need. It's so nice, having just bought a house to have such a great shop around the corner to encourage and help with our DIY endeavors and I hope to use his shop alot as we make changes to our home. P.S. If you're concerned about parking, Force is right next to a massive Sainsbury's parking lot.

I have popped in to Force Homecare on a few occasions when at a loss as to where to find some help…read morewith small projects. I couldn't have been more grateful or pleased with the kind help of the owner. He was very generous with his time and advice on each occasion and even though I didn't need any big ticket items, he worked with me until my needs were sorted. If there is something that you need that is not available in store, it can be ordered right away. I would highly recommend this homecare store.

I have used Mr Tipper for the past 11months and YES you do have to be mindful of collection times…read more just like the council impose collection times, so do all refuse collection agents. if you want your waste collected at a reasonable expense, at a time mutually agreeable to both parties, then I can not fault the service from Mr Tipper.

My company used Mr Tipper's services for around 6 months, and it was a CONSTANT battle to get our…read morerefuse collected. We were just producing normal domestic kitchen waste and paper recycling, but due to collection times imposed by the council, we were unable to put our refuse on the street apart from at certain times. Mr Tipper didn't do, and refused to do, collections during these times because of all the traffic aka it was easier to do collections at night. Every other day involved a phone call to the number on all their bags, which was answered by someone who had no authority, no sway over her boss, and always tried to bounce me on to talk to him rather than address my complaints head on. A HUGELY frustrating experience for months on end we only kept using them because we had to buy 100 bags from them in advance so were getting or trying to get our money's worth. AVOID MR TIPPER LIKE THE PLAGUE.

Yes, yes I'm writing a review for a building supplies store... I do lend my hand to the odd bit of…read moreDIY every, erm, 5 years or so. Yes, I felt like a bit of an outsider walking in, dodging the palettes of timber and pipe and bags of cement. For one thing, I didn't know what half the stuff Wickes sells is - bathroom fittings, kitchen wotsits, flooring... But anyway, it was easy to see where all that stuff was, so the signage is good. But five stars go to the man who told me very helpfully about how to go about stripping and wallpapering a room. 3 hours later, with 3 walls out of 4 done completely in record time, it was clear his advice was good. He even told me not to buy some things I wouldn't use, which is very generous since presumably, Wickes wants to sell them to me regardless. They have a new range of paint out - very nice it is too, and cheaper than Dulux - which for me actually meant I could get a load of their old paint on 70% off. Bonus! Parking's easy even on a Saturday afternoon, but they lose a star because of the debacle at the tills. The tills broke - fair enough, annoying but not their fault - but the crazy woman who apparently worked there stomping around screaming about it didn't make me feel any better about being in a building supplies store on a Saturday afternoon. Although it does have the bonus that I eventually looked forward to stripping wallpaper after 15 minutes in a queue to pay....