Force Homecare

We recently bought a home in Balham and I have been coming to this shop quite a bit for various DIY needs and products. It is not big by any means but they have had the products needed on site for everything we’ve needed done, apart from one large toolbox, which I ordered for pick-​up the next day. You can order you anything you need from an endless stack of DIY catalogs for pick up at their shop next day. I am new to DIY and the best part of going to Force is the professional advice the owner is happy to provide. He is very honest (even if it means selling you a cheaper, more appropriate product than an expensive one you may have been planning to buy from him). His advice is also clear, simple, and optimistic that you can easily achieve your DIY goals. So far he has never said he couldn’t help us or something couldn’t be done. He has always had a simple easy solution and the products to support it.
In case you have a specific DIY need, some of the items he has helped with and provided the perfect products for include:
1) a new rubber liner for our shower splash guard (by the way, Home Base told us we had to contact the splash guard’s maker, but Force had the perfect universal liner for all splash guards in stock)
2) fixing a shower head issue
3) replacing the Swiss plugs of our appliances with British plugs (we just came from Switzerland and have about 10 appliances that needed it)
4) relocating a light switch
5) Painting a built in shelf
6) Filling some wall damage in with the right filler
7) Finding the right drill and drilling to fix some items to the wall
8) Fighting a slug infestation
9) Reconstructing the inside of a fixed wardrobe with new clothes hanging poles
Also, the shop seems to be well stocked with paints, bathroom equipment, yard tools, and, of course, your various DIY odds and ends.
I have also been amazed at how cheap many of his products are. Additionally, he has often given me free small items to accompany my jobs when I make a purchase or he has offered to exchange a few of my smaller purchases for the better, more expensive version free of change when I am checking out. The owner of Force is simply a nice guy who’s standing by to help you with anything you need.
It’s so nice, having just bought a house to have such a great shop around the corner to encourage and help with our DIY endeavors and I hope to use his shop alot as we make changes to our home.
P. S. If you’re concerned about parking, Force is right next to a massive Sainsbury’s parking lot.