This place is worth trying if you're ringing around builders yards. As a woman these places can be…read moreintimidating but I found the staff to be very helpful indeed. Despite the rain they kept running outside to fetch different samples of bricks to see if we could match one I'd brought with me. Then when I found a good match, they were happy to run off a quote, print it out and give it to me with no obligation. Obviously I was going to go to their competitors with this information but they didn't seem to mind one bit - and when I came back to them to haggle, they were quite obliging! Their stock was quite impressive - they had a lot of landscape gardening stuff, not just building materials, so worth a visit if you're doing your garden.

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.

Homebase is one of those shops you only go in when you've got your own home, up until a couple of…read moreyears ago I wasn't interested. Now we're there every week! It does the general diy stuff you'd expect with some gardening stuff, furniture, and a good selection of homeware such as crockery, bedding, and they do plenty of nice things to decorate the house. The best thing is if you sign up for a free spend and save card so every time you buy something, you get points and these add up to vouchers to use in store. Another bonus is that they have 10% off days quite frequently where everything, even reduced stuff has 10% off. We've dropped on some great savings here and often wait for these weekends to save money. Customer service is great here and if you need to return something you can do it without much trouble at all. All its missing is a coffee shop!

Big store so you are likely to find what you're looking for.read more

This B&Q is particularly good. I've used it lots and lots and often its neglected by customers…read morebecause there's a bigger one in town - which means that their sale stock is often in for longer. Also the customer service is great - they've been open to haggling when I've felt cheeky (in fact I saved a packet on a bathroom suite) and they've also been and looked at the computer to track down a missing bath which they didn't have in stock. They couldn't do enough for me which makes the difference really instead of a big anonymous superstore in my opinion.