March 4, 2020 | Household Advice | No comments
Here at eSpares, we’re very much in favour of the fix-it-yourself mindset, especially when it comes to appliances. That got us thinking… what else around the home could we apply this mentality to?
August 8, 2019 | DIY & Home Improvement | No comments
DIY can seem like a whole other world! Every time we complete a project, we learn something for next time!
October 7, 2016 | Competition | 76 comments
With Fix It Week just around the corner, now is the perfect time to share your fix-it stories. From simple mending jobs to extensive re-builds, tell us about your DIY projects in the comments below and you could win 1 of 5 awesome prizes! Hurry, the competition ends on 16/10/16.
August 23, 2010 | General Appliance Care & Advice | No comments
Over the last year or so we have been making an effort to provide a more helpful ‘fix it yourself’ (FIY for short) web experience by creating our own ‘How To’ videos. At the time of writing we’ve got over 130 videos, with 750,000 total views, across 12 video sites. The vast majority of these are viewed on our Advice Centre and YouTube channel.
However, we are just a small drop in the web’s ‘How To’ ocean. Here’s a look at some of the best FIY the web has to offer:
The biggest of the bunch is eHow.com, formerly known as Expert Village. Their eHow Home and eHow Home Appliances sections have a load of FIY gold. Its user-submitted content varies wildly in quality and usefulness but the sheer amount of articles and videos make it a great resource. It’s also very US-centric, so you’ll have to sift through a lot of propane burner and termite infestation stuff to get to anything relevant for repairs or appliances in the UK.
5min.com is a personal favourite. Its home appliances section has a lot to look at, and (unlike eHow) all the ‘fix its’ are in video format.
wonderhowto.com is a great little site with over 400 home and garden appliance videos. The range of videos is great however the video player is a little odd in that it doesn’t have any controls. You can’t forward, rewind or seek to any point the the video – essential for playing and replaying parts of a ‘how to’ video.
Lastly, for a broader insight into how appliances work on either a practical or scientific level howstuffworks.com is brilliant. It has an appliances section with great interactive articles like how refrigerators or microwaves work. Fantastic brain food, and great for getting a wider understanding of how and why appliances are put together.
Happy FIYing.
