Property & DIY links page
This document is under continuous construction.Page index
- DIY
- news: UK.D-I-Y - FAQ
- Ask the Builder
- Bench Notes - A Woodworker's Bench notes - your source for plans, jigs and information.
- BIW - Building Information Warehouse
- BRE - Building Research Establishment
- BRIX - Building Resource & Information Exchange
- Building Product Index
- BuildStore - for the self builder and renovator
- Car Spares Links
- Centurion DIY Conservatories
- CoachboltsOnline.co.uk
- DIY Data.com
- DIY Doctor
- DIY Essentials
- DIYFIXIT
- DIY Forums.net
- DIY Home Improvement Advice
- DIY: The Do It Yourself Network
- DIY-Plastics
- DoItYourself.com
- Dulux
- eBuild - UK self build, house renovation and DIY guide
- Electrical Retailers
- Electrium - Crabtree, Wylex etc.
- Juice Electrical Supplies
- S. Lilley & Son - Brass Lampholders.
- QVS Discount Electrical Wholesale
- Rexel - was Newey & Eyre
- TLC Electrical Supplies
- Trading Depot.co.uk - Electrical, Lighting, Heating, Plumbing and Showers.
- Engelbert Strauss - Workwear, Safetywear, Tools etc.
- FlyingToolBox.com - right there when you need a repair
- Four Walls - useful links.
- GTC-Direct - Screws, Bolts and lots more.
- Hafele - Your trade gateway to the world of furniture fittings and architectural ironmongery.
- hi-revolution - home improvement without hassle
- Home Tips - Home Improvement and Repair Site.
- HomeBuilding & Renovating Magazine - The Self-Build Magazine & Website.
- How To Clean Anything.com
- iFixit
- Improveline.com - Home improvement solutions online
- Industrial Exchange & Mart
- Interesting Timbers (Bath, UK)
- Iron Mongery Direct
- Ladder Safety
- Lets Build It .co.uk
- Lets Do DIY
- Living Roofs (UK) - Indepedent UK Green Roof Information and Research Resource. Greenfix - UK Green roof supplier.
- The Natural Handyman
- Mammoth Workwear
- MBT Feb - including Aquaseal roofing products.
- National Federation of Roofing Contractors - including roofing products and systems information.
- NewTech Shelving - Spur compatible shelving.
- Paint Quality Institute - including Encyclopaedia of paint.
- Paving Expert.com - Sitemap - great site with lots of information for correct installation!
- Plans Now - Woodworking plans.
- Plumbing and Central Heating
- BES - Mail order Gas and Plumbing Supplies.
- Blazes - fireplace and heating specialist
- The Central Heating Website
- Crossling - North East Plumbing and engineers merchant.
- Discounted Heating - supplies
- Fernox
- Keeptheheaton.com - Boiler spares.
- Lunns - TapSpares.co.uk
- Online Boiler Spares
- PlumbWorld
- Sabre Systems (Heating) Ltd - Boiler spares
- Sentinel - Central Heating products.
- Taps4Less
- WholesaleHeating.co.uk
- Polycell
- Progrout - Concrete grouting repair, brickwork pointing and repointing.
- Projects I have completed.
- Rockwool - insulation
- Ronseal - including Thompsons and Isoflex.
- Roof Consult Home Page - Roofing articles - Slating and Tiling tips
- Ruberoid
- Salvo! - Architectural Salvage, Antique Garden Ornaments, Reclaimed Building Materials
- Screw Fix
- Screws Line - specialists in high quality fasteners and fixings.
- Self Build and Built It magazine online
- SimplifyDIY
- Storage Solutions Ltd - Spur Shleving
- Stores
- Teach Me DIY - KnaufDIY - incl. DIY Workshops.
- Tools
- ArmegTools.co.uk - Drills and accessories.
- ArrowStaples.co.uk
- Axminster Power Tool Centre - 30SecondsMore.com (Gift Ideas)
- Bahco - Sandvik
- BesseyTools.co.uk - Bessey Clamps, Aviation Snips, Metal Cutters and more.
- BulldogHandTools.co.uk
- Buyatool
- Calder Trade Supplies Ltd.
- Cookson's
- Discount hand and power tools (US)
- DIYTools.co.uk
- DIYTools.com
- Draper Tools
- DraperHandTools.co.uk
- Engineering Supplies.com
- EstwingTools.co.uk - Hammers, Mallets, Geological Tools, Picks, Hatchets, Roofing tools, Axes, Pry bars, Pry claws etc.
- FixingGuns.co.uk
- Godfrey DIY
- Just Off Base-Tools.co.uk
- Handy Tools.co.uk
- Healy's The Tool Specialist
- Jet Tools - woodworking and metalworking.
- Leatherman
- Machine Mart
- MarshalltownTools.co.uk - Brick laying tools and trowels etc.
- Model Engineering & Tools Links
- New Blades.co.uk - blades for power tools at budget prices - based in Jersey so items under £18 are VAT free!
- Northern Tool UK
- Parker Tools
- PooleWood Machinery - Woodworking tools
- Power Tool Depot (US) - in association with Amazon.com
- Power Tool Manufacturers and Who Really Owns Them - from ProTool Reviews.
- PowerToolDirect
- Quality Tooling
- RotoZip.com
- S J Carter Tools
- Sealey Tools
- TheSiteBox.com
- TIK Products Ltd
- ToolBank
- Toolbay.net
- ToolBox
- Toolco
- Tooled-Up.com
- Tool-Net
- ToolsDirect Online.com
- ToolStation
- Tooltastic.com
- Warehouse Direct
- Wood Working Equipment
- World of Power
- TotalFixings.co.uk
- UniFix Direct
- WD40
- Welding
- ARC Welders
- Mobile Welders - Christian firm based in Medway
- MIG Welders
- TIG Welders
- The Welding Centre in London
- Welders.co.uk
- Welding Warehouse
- White Goods & Spares
- 4DomEx.co.uk - Spares & Accessories.
- 4OurHouse.co.uk - Spares & Accessories.
- BuySpares.co.uk - Spares & Accessories.
- CareMark
- Cooker Parts UK
- Dustbag.co.uk - A-Z of Vacuum Cleaner Bags.
- Dustbags 4 U
- EasySpares.co.uk
- eSpares.co.uk
- MRA - Spare Parts for Domestic Appliances
- Partmaster Direct - part of the Dixons Group
- (the) Service Centre - parts for Hotpoint, Creda, Cannon and GE
- (the) Shower Doctor Ltd - shower spares and exploded parts diagrams.
- Spares2Go
- Vacuum Cleaner Spares
- Washer Help - all things washing machine related.
- Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd - including Sylglas.
- Wood for Good
- Wood Workers Directory.com
- GetWoodWorking.com
- WoodZone.com (US)
- World of Brass
- Estate Agents & Moving
- The Big Property List
- Bridgfords
- Easier.co.uk - no fee, no commission, cut out the middle man (the estate agent)
- Fish4Homes - Huge property database
- Help I am Moving.com
- Home Marketeer
- HomePages
- HouseWeb
- MousePrice.com
- Moving Soon - lead referral service putting prospective buyers and renters in touch with people who are looking to sell or let their property and vice versa.
- National Association of Estate Agents
- Net House Prices
- North East (UK)
- A&G Land & Property Agents
- Andrew Coulson - previously Northumbria Cumbria
- Anton Estates
- Bradley Hall
- Brunton Residential
- Finest Properties
- Foster Maddison
- Galbraith
- George F White
- Harry Douglas
- Kirsty Hodgson
- Pattinson
- Red Hot Property
- Rook Matthews and Sayer
- Sanderson Young - 'Rare!' property boards.
- Strutt & Parker
- George F White
- Yetholm Properties - Student and Professional Lettings in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
- Youngs RPS
- OnTheMarket.com
- Our Property.co.uk
- Prime Location
- PropertyFile UK
- Proviser - UK Property Prices and trends
- Purple Bricks
- Really Moving.com
- Right Move
- Strutt & Parker
- Your Move
- Zoopla
- Gardening
- about.com - Gardening
- Allotment and Kitchen Gardens
- Alton Garden Buildings
- Backyard Gardener
- BBC Gardening
- British Trees
- BulldogHandTools.co.uk
- Chiltern Seeds
- Compost Resource Page
- Dig-it.co.uk
- Everything for the Garden.co.uk
- Expert Gardener
- Garden Bazaar
- GardenGuides
- Garden Helper
- Garden Talk
- Garden Visit and Travel Guide
- Gardens Online
- Gardening UK
- Gardening Websites
- GardenWeb - GardenWeb Europe
- GardenWorld
- GardenZone
- Gone Gardening
- Green Fingers.com
- Hort.net
- Horticopia plant information
- The Hydroponicum
- iGarden
- IPNI - The International Plant Names Index
- Marshalls - for Kitchen Gardens - The Vegetable and Fruit Company.
- Plant Life - wild plant charity
- Robinsons Greenhouses
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Find a Plant
- Seed Quest (USA)
- Soil Association
- Thompson & Morgan - seeds
- Misc.
- Aga-Rayburn - Aga Cook Shop
- Automated Home
- BBC Homes
- Beautiful Fires
- (the) Boundary Problems web site
- The British Wind Energy Association
- CAT.org - Centre for Alternative Technology
- Construction Plus - Civil Engineering and architecture
- Construction Resources
- Discount Fire Supplies
- Domestic Soundproofing
- EarthEnergy
- Energy Saving Trust
- Floodline - Environment Agency
- Garages and Sheds
- Grand Designs - Channel 4 - UK
- Great Buildings Collection
- Green Energy News
- Green Energy Options - including Solar Trade Association.
- Heat Pumps
- HM Land Registry - Land Register Online (look at property prices/details online)
- Home Office Design - Furniture and accessories.
- Home Power
- Home Track - independent guide to moving.
- IAmMoving.com - UK free online change of address service
- Integer Project
- Kitchen & Bath Design News Magazine
- Lock Picking Infopaedia
- MicroPower Council
- MIT Lock guide
- MyHouseandGarden.com
- Master Locksmiths Association
- The Moving Exchange
- National Housing Federation
- www.noise.co.uk
- Period Ideas
- Planning Portal (Gov. UK)
- PV Portal - Photo Voltaics
- Scoraig Wind Electric - How to build a wind turbine
- SecurityCabinets.co.uk
- Sound Stop - UK Soundproofing Specialists for the Home.
- Spillers - Kitchen Appliances
- Sundeala - Pinboards
- Neighbours & Neighbourhoods
- AboutMyArea - rediscover your community.
- Ask Your Neighbour
- FixMyStreet.com - report broken street lights and more and it gets forwarded to your local council for repair.
- Home Check.co.uk
- HomeCheckUK - detailed reports on potential neighbours, noise and other factors.
- Home Envirosearch
- mySociety.org
- Neighbourhood Fix It - Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting.
- NFH - Neighbours From Hell in Britain
- Proviser - UK Local Information, property prices, street maps.
- UpMyStreet.com - Property prices, Best Schools, Council Tax, Crime and Health Stats
- Security & Crime
- (the) Burgled Helpline
- CCTV & Surveillance
- AEI Security - Easy Life
- CamStream - webcam apps for Linux, incl. Using a webcam as a security camera.
- CCTV Information
- CCTVsafe - incl. CCTV images on a mobile phone!
- Codex Data Systems
- Covert Technologies
- CSI Data Collection Resources - Surveillance products
- CyberSelect - under the CCTV pull down menu
- Electronic Surveillance Devices
- Elite Security
- Home Automation Magazine Online
- Home Automation Times
- Home Controls - incl. Home automation info.
- Home Toys
- Micromark
- Norbain - UK supplier of most types of CCTV and Security equipment
- Spy Company
- SpyMaster
- SpySite
- SpyProducts.com
- SpyWorld (US)
- SpyZone - Hi-tech products for surveillance, counter surveillance, and security
- Travel Eyes - A GPS device which stores where a vehicle has been
- VidGuard UK - Security cameras controlled by your PC, with remote access.
- WebCamXP
- Zone Minder - Linux CCTV
- Crime Prevention Initiative
- Home Office Crime Prevention
- NACRO - Crime Reduction Charity
- Neighbourhood Watch
- People United Against Crime
- Secured By Design
- Security World
- The Security Net - working towards a safer home
- Victim Support - Working for Victims of Crime