Category Archives: DIY

Kickstart Your Patio Paradise: 6 Essential Groundwork Tips You Can’t Miss

Kickstart Your Patio Paradise: 6 Essential Groundwork Tips You Can’t Miss

Welcome to the wild world of patio building to perfection! Get ready to turn your back garden into the oasis you’ve always dreamed of with these 6 essential tips.  We’re about to embark on a journey of relaxation, entertainment and may be a little bit of dirt flinging fun. So, grab your spade and let’s […]

Choosing the Right Digger Size for Your Home Project and Digger Hire Services

What size excavator do I need

Choosing the Right Digger Size for Your Home Project and Digger Hire Services Embarking on a home project often involves significant tasks like excavation, digging, and landscaping. One of the critical decisions that can impact the success and efficiency of your mission is selecting the appropriate digger size, especially when considering digger hire services. In […]

Planning your garden renovations

Planning and preparing your garden

Where do I start with my planning? Are you considering revitalising your garden and patio for your family and friends to enjoy next Spring, Summer, and even into Autumn? There’s a lot of preparation involved before you can start laying new turf, slabs, or gravel. Read on to find out how mini digger hire can help […]

How to use a Compactor (Wacker) Plate and why do I need one?

How to use a Compactor (Wacker) Plate and why do I need one?

How to use a Compactor (Wacker) Plate and why do I need one? A compactor (wacker) plate is a tool that makes the job of compacting ground material much faster and easier. Compacting is gruelling work, but an essential step to ensure you get a great result for pathways, paving, driveways, drainage, landscaping projects and […]

What’s the difference between a forklift and a telehandler (aka telescopic forklift)?

Telehandler for hire

What’s the difference between a forklift and a telehandler (aka telescopic forklift)? When working in the construction industry, you’re likely to use a combination of machinery and equipment to help lift, carry and move heavy loads, which needs to be done quickly, efficiently and safely. We are often asked what’s the difference between a telehandler […]

What’s a Beam Dolly and How do I Use One?

Beam Dolly for Hire

What’s a Beam Dolly? Quite simply a Beam Dolly is like a trolley and can help move heavy beams from the kerbside to your job site. How Does It Work? It’s used for moving steel beams around single-handed. Once the beam is on the dolly it can be moved easily by one person without the […]

How to use a Stump Grinder and why do I need one?

How to use a Stump Grinder

Have you had a tree removed (and experienced the thrill of yelling out “Timber!”) and now have an annoying, stubborn stump that is preventing you from laying a new driveway or erecting that new fence? If you answered YES then NOW is the perfect time to rid yourself of those nuisance stumps using a stump […]

How to use a Turf Cutter and why do I need one?

Turf cutter hire near me

If you like HARD work you could remove the grass by hand, but this takes a lot of back breaking work with a spade. To do this you would need to make vertical cuts into the soil with a spade cutting the grass into segments, then slide your spade horizontally separating the roots from the […]

How to use a rotovator and why do I need one?

Rotovator Hire near me

Rotovators are strong, robust machines which use a set of blades which spin and break up soil in preparation for planting.  They are designed to be used in gardens and allotments.

Where you have hard and compacted soil a rotovator will assist you to break up, turn and cultivate the ground for laying new turf, planting vegetables and plants.