The DIY and home improvement boom should give a tailwind to some shares this year as people continue to work from home and lockdown restrictions ease slowly, according to a fund manager and analysts. On Monday, B&Q and Screwfix-owner Kingfisher revealed bumper sales over the past year, as lockdown fuelled a surge in DIY and … Read more
MARKET REPORT: B&Q owner Kingfisher enjoys a 44% profits rise as 18 to 34-year-olds join in the lockdown DIY craze By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 22 March 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 22 March 2021 The DIY craze that began during the first lockdown turbo-charged sales at B&Q-owner Kingfisher. The … Read more
Don’t do it yourself! Moment DIY dunce creates an unwanted water feature after drilling through pipe A DIY novice was treating woodworm in the floorboards at his Norfolk home The man was using a power tool to screw the floorboards onto the wooden joists He forgot that the central heating pipes were running through the … Read more
DIY SOS star Nick Knowles joins rival Channel 5 to present two new shows amid claims there was ‘no firm plan as to when the BBC series would return’ By Olivia Wheeler For Mailonline Published: 01:32 GMT, 4 March 2021 | Updated: 01:32 GMT, 4 March 2021 DIY SOS star Nick Knowles has joined rival broadcaster Channel … Read more
Viewers of DIY SOS: The Big Build were left sobbing last night after a disabled mother-of-two trapped in her bedroom was given a fully accessible house in an incredible home makeover. Mandy McCreight, from Bangor, suffers from debilitating Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a group of conditions that affect connective tissue, which provides support in skin, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, … Read more
She’s expecting her first baby with beau Charles Drury. And Lauren Goodger treated herself to a lockdown pampering session on Friday, as she did ‘a bit of a DIY job’ on her hair to get some fresh blonde highlights. The reality star, 34, also revealed she trained to be a hairdresser after leaving school, but admitted … Read more
With uncertainty over when salons will re-open many of us are desperate to recreate professional treatments at home – including DIY alternatives to waxing. Sugaring is the latest beauty trend to sweep social media, a natural alternative to waxing which involves making your own hair removal mixture by boiling sugar, lemon juice and water. The method … Read more
A family-of-seven with two seriously sick children had their house transformed on tonight’s episode of DIY SOS: The Big Build. Jan and Lucy live in Barnstaple, North Devon, with six-year-old triplet daughters Lola, Daisy and Amber and sons Kenneth, five, and Hadley, two. Daisy and Amber, who are identical twins, both suffer from a severe form … Read more
DIY SOS: The Big Build Rating: Jay And Dom’s Home Fix Rating: Every time, it happens. The builders start work. The electrics go off, a floor comes up, maybe part of a roof disappears. After a couple of days, one of them yells, ‘Chriiiis!? Your eight-by-four lower brickwork ratcheting is gonna need some extra liner … Read more
Grimes gets back to her DIY roots as partner of multi-billionaire Tesla mogul Elon Musk gives their baby X Æ A-XII a Viking-inspired haircut in the bathtub By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 18:20 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 18:20 GMT, 28 January 2021 Her partner Elon Musk was recently dubbed the richest man … Read more