Diall brand

I've noticed that as well. Filler, tile adhesive, white spirit etc.

I suppose D I All as in Do It All?

Looks like it, yeah.

This own brand stuff is apalling. Expanding foam does not expand. Tech services wont reply. Losing the plot with this brand.

I wouldn't (and haven't) touched it with a bargepole....

The B&Q own brand in case anyone doesn't know...

Tim Watts wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@squidward.local.dionic.net:

Probably pot luck - might be unfair to criticise the whole brand - DIALL is not a maker - it is merely a label. Some items could be ok,

But how would you know? Which is why I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole - I'll just buy the brands I know are OK :)

I don't buy brands, I buy from companies. I hate the whole concept of 'brand', it just leads to the nonsense of something costing more simply because there's a label stuck on it.

It's very rarely now that any 'brand' is actually manufactured by one company in one place, it's just a marketing exercise.

You knew what I meant :)

I'd buy a Pegler valve, but deffo not a Diall one (if they even do them). The Pegler "brand" is IME worth the extra.

If you sell random s*it in a bucket there is a good chance of the customer buying a piece of s*it.

Mouse traps they sell have that brand.

It looked like a promise - "Die All"

(Nope)

That is a neat trick, making expanding foam that does not expand. Surely the chemistry of the foam has to make gas and hence expand as it hardens. Brian

No, the foam needs moisture to harden. If it hasn't expanded the gas has leaked from the container.

I once had a can of shaving foam that had leaked its gas.

JCB Batteries - there is an odd one. And Panasonic Batteries.

I once saw a couple looking at a Polaroid TV in a supermarket and the husband said that it would be good as they make good cameras!!!!

The whole badging thing is annoying - Even good reputable companies will use goods made by lower tier manufacturers and badge them as their own.

With good specifications, drawings, and proper manufacturing engineering and quality assurance processes then it shouldn't matter where an item is made.

Many people years ago would not have bought a typical British car - but since Honda, Nissan and Toyota have imported their Manufacturing Engineering int the country then there should be nothing to choose between the cars based on where they are made.

Diall is a budget branded item and is sold as such.

hard to find in domestic goods. Buying used at least weeds out some of the failed junk, but not enough.

NT

replying to Jethro_uk, maria wrote: we have bought an electronic and key safe but the writing is so small we are thinking of taking it back as we are having trouble working out how to lock it and open it

Panasonic (Matsushita) really do make their own batteries. Not only that, but they are probably one of the best quality manufacturers out there.

John

They have to have batteries to power those diggers.

Brand is mostly immaterial when it comes to (primary cell) batteries.

NT

Of batteries, maybe. The Panasonic DVR we bought is a festering piece of s*it, such that I determined never, ever, to buy anything of theirs ever again.

mibe and my tv are both excellent.