Opinion: 'I'm constantly asked if I can thank the handyman for carrying out their work - my work'

“Bought your first place, ‘av ya?”What I’m looking for when I hear these comments in DIY stores is not something that comes in pink, it’s something simple – a screwdriver, a washer, a wrench. But when I’ve stepped into some DIY stores, the assumption is that I don’t know what I’m doing.

I’ve always loved DIY stores . I don’t know why. I just go WILD when I see one. It’s the rows and rows of solutions to life’s problems that soothes me, I think. Shopping around for my go-to DIY store, I began to realise that they are like every other store. There are good ones, and there are bad ones. In a good one, the employees are experts in their field and love to give you advice.

But in a bad store there would be the odd cringey proposal with a plumbing olive , queries about whether I was married, or if someone had let me down leaving me in the awful situation of having to do it myself and so on. The men that also needed some advice, who weren’t professionals or experts, who just wanted to figure out how to do it themselves.

It’s this grey area that is preventing us from learning about our home and fearing repairs and smaller issues.

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