MARKET REPORT: DIY bonanza spruces up Howden Joinery shares

MARKET REPORT: DIY and home improvement bonanza spruces up Howden Joinery as shares soar 4.5% By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:52 GMT, 9 December 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 9 December 2020 Nobody could have predicted that 2020 would be the year of home improvements and DIY. During the first lockdown, people … Read more

How Covid changed Britain: WFH, gardening and DIY still boosted

How Covid changed Britain: WFH is STILL on the rise as people spend more time gardening, doing DIY and watching TV – but we are not sleeping as much as in the first lockdown Time study shows that many habits have lingered from the first Covid lockdown Britons are still spending more time gardening, doing … Read more

DIY SOS: The Big viewers ‘weep’ as family are given wheelchair accessible home

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers were left in tears over the stunning transformation of a cramped terraced house into a spacious wheelchair-accessible family home.  Cat and Chris Sweet live in Weston-super-Mare with their three children, Louisa, 14, Max, 11, and Henry, six, who all have degenerative illnesses. Soon they will all need to use … Read more

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers ‘weep’ as family are given wheelchair accessible home

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers were left in tears over the stunning transformation of a cramped terraced house into a spacious wheelchair-accessible family home.  Cat and Chris Sweet live in Weston-super-Mare with their three children, Louisa, 14, Max, 11, and Henry, six, who all have degenerative illnesses. Soon they will all need to use … Read more

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers are left ‘sobbing’ over Cornwall family

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers were left ‘sobbing’ after Nick Knowles and the team transformed a two-bedroom bungalow into a spacious family home on last night’s episode.   Brothers Ruben, 17, Jaden, 11, and Uche, 10, moved in with grandparents Lynn and Steve Smedley after their mother Carrie died in her sleep in April 2017.  Lynn, … Read more

Savvy DIY fan gives her VERY tired kitchen a stylish modern makeover for just £230

A savvy DIY fan has told how she gave her tired-looking kitchen a much needed modern makeover for just £230.  Sam Jones, 27, a law student from Skegness, explained that when she moved into her new family home in October 2020, the dated kitchen she’d inherited was screaming out for a stylish overhaul. ‘The old … Read more

DIY SOS: The Big Build Cornwall home is transformed

Three brothers living in their grandparents cramped bungalow are given a new, spacious home on tonight’s episode of DIY SOS: The Big Build. Ruben, 17, Jaden, 11, and Uche, 10, moved in with grandparents Lynn and Steve Smedley after their mother Carrie died in her sleep in April 2017.  Lynn, 56, and Steve, 62, retired … Read more

Package holidays can be more than £400 cheaper than DIY trips, Which? reveals  

Package holidays can be more than £400 cheaper than DIY trips – and you’re more likely to get a swift refund if it’s cancelled, Which? reveals The consumer group looked at the cheapest package deals from five UK airports It found that eight in ten were significantly cheaper than the DIY equivalent  DIY trips don’t … Read more

DIY SOS viewers are left in tears after team transform home for widow who lost husband and daughter

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers were reduced to tears over the team’s latest project to help a widow after her husband and daughter both died at  her home. The BBC One programme, which aired last night, saw presenter Nick Knowles helping Caroline Blanchard, from Scunthrope, who tragically lost both her seven-year-old daughter Natasha in a … Read more

DIY SOS: Home where woman’s husband AND daughter died is transformed

DIY SOS is set to transform the home where a woman lost her husband and her seven-year-old daughter during tonight’s emotional episode.  Caroline Blanchard, from Scunthorpe, reveals on the BBC One Show that her seven-year-old daughter Natasha and 48-year-old husband Paul both died at her home, and she now feels unable to use the rooms … Read more