06-04-2015, 10:06 AM
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Re: Store closures
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I love the B&Q and would be very sad to see ours go. Everything is on display and I can walk round and get some useful ideas on what to use for particular jobs. I don't always know what the correct name is for what I need, and you feel such a fool in a small DIY shop: 'Oh, you mean a 45 degree rotating flange sprocket'....silence or sniggers from all the tradesmen queing behind you.
06-04-2015, 10:14 AM
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Re: Store closures
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I love the B&Q and would be very sad to see ours go. Everything is on display and I can walk round and get some useful ideas on what to use for particular jobs. I don't always know what the correct name is for what I need, and you feel such a fool in a small DIY shop: 'Oh, you mean a 45 degree rotating flange sprocket'....silence or sniggers from all the tradesmen queing behind you.
06-04-2015, 10:19 AM
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OH gave his man cave a good clean out last year and the result was that my daughter is the proud owner of a good set of power tools , angle grinder , drill both with cord for heavy jobs and cordless for lightweight, jigsaw etc plus two tool boxes with various building and plumbing hand tools..Who needs B&Q when you have a tool hoarding parent?
06-04-2015, 04:22 PM
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B&Q is OK for browsing, but if you want a pair of hinges or a box of screws, they're about twice the price of a builders' merchant. Homebase is even more expensive. I always preferred Wickes, but I don't have a local one.My local builders' merchant has a large box where they put all the scrap wood (mostly from packaging). It has a sign 'Help yourself' - I've got some good bits of timber from it and the staff have even encouraged me to take more as they want rid of it.
06-04-2015, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Completely agree I much prefer a shop look to a store than a builder yard where I feel completely out of my depth.
Yes, I can fully understand that Julie, I think I'd be the same.
07-04-2015, 09:31 AM
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We'll, I might find myself 'out of my comfort zone' in some shops, but it's a matter of explaining what job you're doing and asking advice on what you need to do it.O.H. used to work in a builders' merchant (and a lot of women do these days) and what she didn't like was someone thinking they knew what they wanted and then complaining that they had been given the wrong item. Much better to say, this is what I'm doing, what bits do I need? In my experience, people will be pleased to help.
07-04-2015, 10:39 AM
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My husband has just gone to Wickes for some wood panelling as were boarding the van inside. He say's it's much cheaper than B & Q but he'll still call there if Wickes doesn't have what he needs..You can get most things on-line or on your local Gumtree site or Ebay and just go and pick it up for half the price if it's available though..
And just to add my husband's a Truck driver and most places he delivers to have skips, and they don't mind him taking wood and bits from them so that's a large saving for us
14-05-2015, 09:48 AM
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Re: Store closures
Originally Posted by Mups
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I heard on the news a few days ago, that B & Q intend closing 60 stores over the next two years.Homebase are closing 80 of their stores too. Our local one here, has already closed.
I wonder what's going on. Why are these big DIY stores not getting the custom now? Where are people going instead?
Find B&Q expensive these days. I look for places that sell at the prices B&Q used to charge.
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