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Welcome to DIY Primer

The purpose of this site is to help you carry out DIY tasks successfully and with an improved level of confidence. It provides hints, tips and the wherewithal to complete the diy task you choose.

Each DIY task we have detailed we will give you a basic run down of how to achieve it and the list of equipment and consumerables you will need to complete the work in one shot without having to go down to the diy shop for the bits mid task!

Drill down to the task you are planning to carry out by selecting the general area on the left hand menu, this is repeated on all main pages of the web site and hence you can easily get back to where your started.

If you are stuck on a diy job this moment in time then check out our pages and hopefully we will be able to help you out.

Also the task pages list time saving tools and techniques that the experts use to finish the task quicker where ever possible we will also give you the proper and common slang names of tools and materials used.

We hope this site will help you to carry out your chosen diy task successfully and more safely. If you have any hints or tips then please let us know and we will include them within the relevant page.

We are constantly adding to the site, if you want to know how to do a particular task and it is not listed then email us and if we can we'll add it to the site.

Check our coming soon section to see if we are adding a task that you want to know about, you can leave your email so that we will let you know when it is up.

Top DIY Tasks

The most frequently carried out DIY tasks (notice we didn't say popular!) are:

Diy Task 1

Top of the list is changing a light bulb. - Did you know in Australia this can only be legally carried out by qualified personnel !

DIY Task 2

In number 2 spot is Mowing the lawn. Although a high percentage of people do not know how to cut it properly however.

DIY Task 3

at number 3 pop pickers is painting.