Once again we will be at the Homebuilding and Renovating Show in the NEC in March to present our Tricks and Tips from the tradespeople who do the jobs every day. You can get free tickets for the show by registering in advance, as usual. Get your free tickets here now. We will be presenting ..read more

With spring on the way soon here is a great idea to make growing your own veg simple and easy. Grow Sow Simple make clever little biodegradable pods which all you have to do is push them into your pot or bed and water. Before long you will have wonderful homegrown veg coming your way ..read more

Over the past months we have been receiving calls regarding “our DIY Doctor” carpet tape and the fact that many users have found that it has left a sticky residue on carpets once removed that is extremely hard to get off and in some cases cannot be removed ultimately ruining the carpet in question! We ..read more

The DIY Doctor's Blog The DIY Doctor's Blog - DIY and Home Improvement Hints, Tips, Help and Advice from The DIY Doctor Hopefully we won’t need to be thinking of having fires for much longer this year, but did you know that the laws have changed over the burning of wood? In England new restrictions on burning coal and wood mean that anyone with a stove or open fire must burn cleaner alternatives. These forms of heating […] England Changes Laws on Burning Wet Wood and Coal to Improve Air Quality ..read more

The DIY Doctor's Blog The DIY Doctor's Blog - DIY and Home Improvement Hints, Tips, Help and Advice from The DIY Doctor On the 31st August 2020 there was a change to the permitted development rules in England that has made it easier to add more levels to your home and increase space. These are among other changes that are designed to make it easier and quicker to develop new homes, including greater flexibility to the change […] New Permitted Development Rules Make Adding Additional Storeys Easier ..read more

The DIY Doctor's Blog The DIY Doctor's Blog - DIY and Home Improvement Hints, Tips, Help and Advice from The DIY Doctor The housing market seems to be generating conflicting signals which makes it very difficult to understand what is happening for anyone who is not an expert, but simply wants to buy or sell a property. On one hand the papers are reporting that record prices are being reached particularly in some of the areas with […] Havoc in the Housing Market ..read more

The DIY Doctor's Blog The DIY Doctor's Blog - DIY and Home Improvement Hints, Tips, Help and Advice from The DIY Doctor We are all looking for the perfect home – but some of us are prepared to work at the imperfect one we have to get there. According to a new survey by Pilkington it takes approximately £26,000 of renovations to achieve the “perfect” home after moving in, and it takes on average five years after […] Half of us Never Want to Move Again and Will Create the Perfect Home Ourselves ..read more

The DIY Doctor's Blog The DIY Doctor's Blog - DIY and Home Improvement Hints, Tips, Help and Advice from The DIY Doctor With us being restricted to our homes and gardens (if we are lucky enough to have them) during lockdown, banks and credit card companies have been surveying what we spent our money on, or intend to spend it on this year. Home bar in garden – Image courtesy of shedblog.co.uk According to an American Express […] Gardening, DIY and Home Bars are what we are spending our money on this year ..read more

The DIY Doctor's Blog The DIY Doctor's Blog - DIY and Home Improvement Hints, Tips, Help and Advice from The DIY Doctor Property website Rightmove has revealed that July saw agreed sales reach £37bn which made it the busiest month for property sales in ten years. It is £12bn more than during July 2019 when sales reached £25bn. Unsurprisingly house purchases plummeted during lockdown but once viewings and house moves were allowed again in May they began […] Bumper Sales Figures for UK House Sales in Summer 2020 ..read more

The DIY Doctor's Blog The DIY Doctor's Blog - DIY and Home Improvement Hints, Tips, Help and Advice from The DIY Doctor Shockingly there were almost 15,000 domestic fires started by home appliances in the past year and more than half (53%) of those fires were due to a domestic cooker/oven*. However this is still less than the previous year, and in fact the number has been steadily dropping since 2010/11. Incident Recording System data on fire […] Domestic Fires caused by Home Appliances are Steadily Declining ..read more