The Best DIY Tips, Tricks and Reviews to Turn Your House Into a Home
Inside Your Home
Our fantastic experience and well researched guides can help you save a significant amount of money on upgrades, repairs and appliances for common home maintenance problems.
Outside Your Home
We do the research so you don't have to. We've got loads of articles that will help you improve the outside of your property! Our focus ranges from first time home owners to seasoned professionals.
Tools, Trades & More
Struggling on how to do certain tasks or DIY around your home? Maybe you just haven't got the right tool for the job. See how to best secure your home and how to get rid of common pests.
Welcome to Guides 4 Homeowners
Hi, I’m Mat and I run Guides 4 Homeowners.
Like many others, I wasn’t exactly a DIY expert growing up. In fact, I was more into computers and movies than getting my hands dirty. This all quickly changed when I bought my first home at the age of 21 when things started to break on me and I didn’t have the money to hire a tradesman. I did however have a toolbox and a local library with plenty of “How To DIY Guides” and so I got to learning. Over the years I’ve gained all sorts of skills and knowledge and wanted to share them with others.
On this website, you will find a host of different tips, tricks, guides and reviews all aimed at helping you navigate through the tricky world of homeownership and how to save money on home repairs.
Our Most Popular Home Improvement Posts
This blog has been running a long time, but there are a few of our guides and informative articles that have lasted the test of time and clearly become favourites amongst our audience. These popular DIY articles are a sure fire way to get you started.
Find the rest of our DIY home maintenance guides over on our blog or search for it below
How We Choose the Best Equipment
Expert knowledge and experience to help you buy smart
We provide expert knowledge and experience about all things DIY for your next home maintenance job or your big home renovation. We not only provide useful tips and tricks we’ve picked up over the 15+ years of home ownership but also provide gear reviews that explain what sets a products apart from its competitors and suggest other similar products you might like. We go into the positives and negatives of essential DIY tools for UK homeowners to help you make your decision based on what is right for you and your project.
What You'll Find on Our Site
Whether your a first time homeowner or just upgraded to a new place, chances are your place will need some form of essential ongoing home maintenance. You may be fine for awhile but if your experience is anything like mine, buying an older house means these repairs come thick and fast. The last thing you want to do is spend hundreds of pounds on a tradesman for an emergency callout to fix your radiator in the middle of winter, only to find out you could’ve fixed it yourself in 30 minutes for a fraction of the cost. If learned a lot of different DIY skills over the years and want to pass on some of the best to help you save money on home repairs. Whether you need to learn how to unclog a drain or how to fix a faulty light switch, our easy to follow home maintenance tips will help you get the job done on a low budget.
Wanting a few small improvements or some large scale landscaping? There is no end to the outdoor maintenance or garden care that you can do outside of your home! Did you know there were different ratios for masonry works depending on what you are trying to achieve? Or what is the best way to oil a deck or clean your patio? There are countless ways to improve your outdoor space and increase your home value with landscaping or create your own outdoor getaway. Everything from gardening tricks to concreting tips to improving outdoor living, you’ll find it here.
Sometimes you just need to find the right tools for the job or need an idea of what kind of budget you need to complete a project. On this website, we have independently researched and tested essential DIY tools for beginners so you don’t have to. We do more than just that, we have a range of DIY pest control methods to stop those common household pest in their tracks. We have home security and burglary prevention tips including some of the best home security alarms and locks. Last but not least, we go into some of the basic home DIY costs that you may experience as a home owner including DIY vs professional costs to help budgeting for your next home improvement project.
Our guides can be split out further into some popular “home” related categories, just click on the relevant image below to navigate to articles about that particular topic.
Our Most Recent DIY Posts
We always want to provide the most fresh and up to date information to our website visitors. Here we have our most recent articles to build upon your knowlegde.
