Poundland review

[Andy Dingley]

Try Lidl's instead (Osram?) Good light output and the fastest time to full output that I've yet seen.

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

You keep posting upside down and with no trimming to context.

[Fitz]

Err, Chris. No offence meant but have you got something against the OP? Or Poundland? or did you just not understand what the point of the thread was?

Poundland ("Yes - Everything's a pound") sell tools. Unsurprisingly they cost a pound each. They are of variable quality. The OP thought it may be useful to collect together the wisdom of uk.d-i-y in one thread for reviews of very cheap (i.e. =A31) tools.

For instance: I purchased a 12" bow saw from Poundland to cut down three small trees. That was all I needed to do with it.

The blade was flimsy and not particularly sharp but it managed to cut down my three trees. So job done in my book. I got a tool for a specific job that saved me a reasonable amount of money.

3/5

Does that clear things up?

--=20 Steve F

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Actually they was going to call it "rejectland", but renamed it "Poundland", because all the stuff was from warehouse's that have been lying on the shelf for donkeys years if the truth be known it's an 'Arthur Daily buisness' apparently the stuff sells at a pound because people will not take the stuff back as it was such a trivial price.

I do admit to buying 3 large scented candles in there but a point not to pay a visit again as the candles burnt down in the middle leaving a 1" wax outer, what a waste, they also sell universal remotes in there...sadly they don't work.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Chris Bacon]

Everything? I thought it was just an indication of cheap prices...

[daddyfreddy]

I've yet to visit the place but my father used to visit it quite regularly. The stuff seems to be a mixed bag, some very good value and some total crap.

[Mindwipe]

universal remote i got works fine with my bush portable tv range of dog toys available has saved me about 20 quid so far with my new puppy plus the dog blankets were on sale in my local pet shop (same brand) for £6 each also the two aluminium torchs i bought 6 months ago are working fine and unlike the previous torches i havent lost or run them over with a car yet (others were £10 a go) (mechanic) Jeff

[Owain]

I remember a sweet shop that sold sweets for a (new) ha-penny or penny. A tube of five (very small) mints for ha-penny. In 1970-something.

Owain

[Mark]

Everything. some are incredible crap but, for instance 10m tape measures how many have you stepped on and bent the end, I buy two or three at a time with 100 pencils. and chuck a few in every room.

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[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Nope can't say I've never stepped on my tape measure or lost a pencil, mainly because the pencil is behind my ear and the tape measure is always hooked on the waist band of me trousers. :-)

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Bob Eager]

Measuring ceilings must call for a few contortions! :-)

[OG]

superglue

16 small (2ml) tubes of or 3 x 10ml bottles of plus range of short and long nozzles

it's superglue. It sticks

[Mark]

Well at least you will _Look_ the part walking round B&Q.

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[OG]

Sticky tape

Double sided.

3x rolls of 2.5cm tape. Not sure of length, but very effective.

Paper Masking

5x rolls of 2.5cm tape. ditto

Insulating something stupid like 10 or 12 rolls of assorted colours

[OG]

3 way socket on short (< 1 metre) cable .

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Me in B&Q? heaven forbid...much cheaper places to goto. :-)

p.s they only do that to look technical.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

I just take me trousers off. ;-)

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[meow2222]

yes I saw those. Have you tried them, and are they ok?

NT

[OG]

We've probably got about half a dozen around the place. More or less everywhere that we would normally expect to put an adaptor.

[Roly]

Ours is selling a card with a dozen 2ml tubes of superglue together with a small tube of superglue unsticker. Sounds like quite a good deal to me.