STANLEY FATMAX TECHNICIAN BAG 18IN
STANLEY FATMAX TECHNICIAN BAG 18IN
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List Price: ?15.99
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List Price: ?9.99
Amazon Price: ?6.59
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List Price: ?24.99
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Customer Review: Mediterranean Garden Plants
Lorraine Cavanagh's glossy photographs of individual plants on each double page spread, along with its habits and cultivation needs, is a delight for anyone looking for suitable plants for a Mediterranean garden. In the back is a section of cross reference, with lists according to one's requirements - such as sun or shade, climbers, trees etc. I would recommend this book to anyone either starting from scratch, or needing help in choosing a plant for a particular site.
Customer Review: I've been waiting ages for a book like this!
Christmas has come early for me! It's got all the information you could need for 350 plants including details on habit, cultivation, pruning, propagation and a colour photo for each. Also has English, Latin and Spanish names for the plants. A good friendly and expert writing style - very highly recommended.
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List Price: ?25.00
Used Price: ?19.80
Customer Review: Good for xperienced DIY ers
This book is an excellent reference tool for people with a modicum of common sense and a bit of experience. It has enough depth and breadth to cover the majority of things but if you are looking for something that will tell you how to build a block of flats from scratch using only lolly sticks then you will be dissappointed. It kind of gives you the confidence to do what you knew you wanted to do but didn’t know the detail (like using 10mm cable for a shower installation) I’m a miserable wotsit and I bought another copy for my son Buy it. If you save one tradesman coming in to do a job then it’ll have paid for itself.
Customer Review: Useless - the Readers Digest one is much better
This book is fairly useless, for several reasons: 1. It’s impossible to find what you’re looking for, and the index is hopeless. The only way I managed to find anything was by flicking randomly until I found what I was looking for. 2. Sometimes it is hopelessly patronising, but then most of the time it assumes you know much more than you would as an amateur DIYer. For example, we wanted to know how to put in a loft door, and it said ’shore up the size of the hatch to fit the door you’ve bought’. How do you do that? If it was covered elsewhere in the book, it was hopeless trying to find it. This is just one example from six months of frustration with this book. 3. It is rubbish at telling you exactly what you need to ask for when you go to hardware stores. Often B&Q had no idea what the thing was the book said I needed. (OK B&Q are also a bit rubbish) We’ve just bought our first flat, and are fairly competent at DIY, but having lived with this book for six months, we ended up buying the Readers Digest one, which is infinitely better. We’re not even going to bother keeping the Collins for a second opinion, it’s that rubbish.
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