Advice and Tips
Our space to share helpful tips for your next DIY or professional project.
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Feature Product: The Stain Proof Range
We regularly review some of our favourite products. Today, we’re looking at Stain Proof sealers and cleaners, an excellent product with a great reputation.
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Concrete Sealer: What You Need to Know
Concrete is a sturdy material that’s practical and affordable. In many cases, it can even be quite beautiful. Unfortunately, it’s also an extremely porous material, so using concrete sealer is an absolute must – especially if your concrete is outside. If you’re a DIY enthusiast who is laying or sealing some concrete for the first…
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A Product Guide for DIY Pool Areas
Tiling a pool area is a great DIY project. In fact, it’s one of the most common projects that our customers ask us about. Yet there’s plenty you need to consider.
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Here’s Why Litokol is the Best Grout for Pool Builds and Wet Areas
If you’re a pool installer or tiling professional, you’re always looking for better epoxy grout. Something that will improve your wet area builds and deliver great results for your clients. Well, look no further than Litokol.
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The 10 Types of Screws you should know about.
It’s always important to use the right screw. There are lots of different types and sub-types of screws out there, but DIY-ers can get away with knowing just these 10.
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The 5 Types of Sanders, and How to Choose the Right One for the Job.
Sanders are one of the most helpful power tools out there. There are plenty of jobs where sanding by hand just isn’t a viable option – it’s too tiring and too difficult to apply evenly. That’s why an electric sander is such a good investment, even for a casual DIYer. But there are a few…
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5 Different Ways You Can Use Your Soldering Iron.
There are few power tools more versatile than the humble soldering iron. A soldering iron is a compact type of welding tool that uses high temperatures to melt solder and join two pieces of metal together in a permanent and airtight way. These nifty little tools can come in all shapes and sizes, depending on…
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Choosing Tiles? 5 Important Things to Know.
There’s more to choosing the right tiles than just liking a colour and shape. Whether you’re gearing up for some DIY tiling, or you’re choosing a style for a professional to install, there are some important things you need to consider first. Here are the 5 most important things you need to be thinking about…
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The 10 Most Popular Tile Materials
When it comes to choosing tiles for your home, you’re pretty much spoiled for choice. Whether you’re looking for wall tiles or floor tiles, there are a staggering amount of options out there for you to choose from. To make it a little easier for you, we’ve rounded up 10 of the most popular options…
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5 Tile Trends that are everywhere in 2022
Just like anything else, the world of DIY tiling is all about the latest trends. As a hardware store, we definitely notice this in the types of projects our customers will tell us about. At any given time, there are always a few things that everyone is suddenly keen to try. Between the projects we…
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Feature Range: Litokol Starlike EVO. An excellent grout with unique finishes.
This week, we’re looking at Litokol. Hailing from Italy, Litokol have been putting out some seriously exciting epoxy grout with their Starlike EVO range. “Hang on,” I hear you say, “Grout? Exciting?” But bear with us, because these Litokol products may change your mind. Here are our 5 biggest takeaways from reviewing the Starlike EVO…
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Drills vs. Impact Drivers: How to choose the right drilling tool for the job.
Drills are a staple of any toolbox. Whether you’re a DIY-er or a tradie, you won’t get far without a drill. Most commonly used for driving in screws and drilling holes, a drill is a versatile tool that can do all sorts of things if you’ve got the right attachment. Some jobs, however, will require…
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A Guide to Choosing The Right Grout
It happens all the time. You’re keen to start doing some DIY tiling, but you’ve realised that you actually don’t know anything about grout Yet grout plays a very important role when you’re tiling. It doesn’t just affect the look of your design, but the longevity and the durability of your tiles too. It’s always…
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Feature Range: Bosch Green Power Tools. Amazing for DIY, good enough for tradies.
As part of our tips and advice section, we’re keen to help our customers get a better feel for some popular tools and tool ranges out there. This week, we’re looking at the Bosch Green range of power tools. Bosch Green power tools are Bosch’s DIY range, whilst their ‘pro’ range for tradespeople is blue.…