90 DIY GUIDES · CHECKED OCTOBER 2026 · IRELAND
Do it yourself — properly
Step-by-step guides for the jobs you can do, and an honest word about the ones you shouldn't.
- Every step, start to finish
- Sources listed and dated on every guide
- Honest about when to call a pro
What every guide gives you
Every step, start to finish
The preparation, the technique and the order of work — written out, with the time each step takes and the mistake it hides.
What to buy, and how much
The materials and the decisions behind them, with a calculator for the quantity your own job needs.
Honest about when to stop
Where a job stops being yours — the law, the height or the risk — named, with the guide to hiring somebody for it.
ALL DIY GUIDES
Every service, by category
Open a category to see its guides.
- Cleaning a whole house from top to bottom in a day
- Setting up a weekly cleaning routine you can keep
- Blitzing a home that has got on top of you
- Deep-cleaning a kitchen and bathroom
- Spring-cleaning the jobs the weekly clean misses
- Cleaning a rented home before you hand back the keys
- Cleaning an empty home before you move in
- Cleaning up after building work
- Deep-cleaning fitted carpets with a hired machine
- Washing a loose rug at home
- Cleaning a fabric sofa by hand
- Cleaning and freshening a mattress
- Washing curtains at home
- Deep-cleaning an oven by hand
- Cleaning windows from the ground and from inside
- Clearing gutters from a ladder
- Pressure washing a driveway, patio and walls safely
- Cleaning a patio by hand with a brush and patio cleaner
- Cleaning solar panels you can reach from the ground
- Cleaning small patches of mould and stopping them coming back
- Doing the small plumbing jobs yourself
- Handling a plumbing emergency until help arrives
- Bleeding radiators and re-pressurising
- Unblocking a sink, bath, toilet or outside drain
- Finding a hidden water leak
- Fixing a dripping tap or a weeping joint
- Stopping a burst pipe and repairing an exposed section
- Replacing a basin waste and trap
- Plumbing in a washing machine or dishwasher
- Replacing a kitchen mixer tap like for like
- Fixing a running or slow-filling toilet
- Replacing a shower head, hose and riser rail
- Regrouting tiles
- Painting a room
- Hanging wallpaper
- Spray painting small items with aerosol paint
- Assembling flat-pack furniture
- Assembling flat-pack furniture
- Mounting a TV on a wall bracket
- Hanging pictures and mirrors
- Putting up shelves
- Fixing an internal door that sticks, drops or will not latch
- Fixing a window that sticks, will not close or will not stay open
- Adjusting a uPVC door or window that drops, drags or will not lock
- Changing a euro cylinder lock and freeing a stiff lock
- Sealing a bath or shower
- Restoring a wooden piece of furniture
- Fixing an oven, hob or cooker hood that is not working properly
- Fixing a washing machine that will not drain, fill or spin
- Fixing a dishwasher that will not drain, fill or clean
- Fixing a fridge freezer that is not cold enough or icing up
- Fixing a tumble dryer that will not dry or keeps stopping
- Repairing a garden shed
- Switching to LED and replacing a light fitting like for like
- Fitting solar and low-voltage plug-in garden lighting
- Replacing a socket or light switch like for like
- Fitting a battery carbon monoxide alarm
- Replacing a kitchen or utility extractor fan like for like
- Running an Ethernet cable and fitting a data socket
- Fitting a battery or plug-in security camera
- Maintaining a garden
- Mowing a lawn
- Treating a lawn
- Laying turf
- Trimming a hedge
- Removing a hedge
- Pruning a tree
- Clearing an overgrown garden
- Planting a border
- Weeding a garden
- Looking after a garden pond
- Setting up garden irrigation
- Laying a patio
- Building a low garden wall
- Building a raised bed
- Putting up a garden shed
- Clearing leaves
How these guides are made
Checked at the source
Every legal, safety or qualification point is taken from the regulator or the statute itself, linked in the guide's sources with the month it was reviewed.
Independent
No provider is named or recommended. The guides describe what to look for; the search shows who is near you, nearest first.
Kept current
Each guide shows the month it was last reviewed. When a rule changes, the guides it affects are updated and the date moves with them.
TIPS, STORIES AND OFFERS — BY CATEGORY
Pick the categories you care about. One email each, never more.
Guides from people who do the work, seasonal checklists, what things cost near you, and Locufy-only discounts — written about the service, not about us. Each category you tick is one email, at most once a week. Unsubscribe from any of them with one tap.
Questions people ask
Restricted electrical work, anything on gas, structural work, roofing and work at height beyond a step-ladder, and anything involving asbestos are for registered or licensed people in Ireland. Those services have no DIY guide here; their hiring guides say what to check instead.
Each guide is written from manufacturers' instructions, the safety authority's guidance and the relevant standard, with the sources and the month they were checked listed at the end of the guide.
Easy: hand tools, nothing higher than a step-ladder, and mistakes you can undo. Moderate: power tools or precision work, a day or more, and mistakes that cost money. Hard: wet or structural trades over several days — most of those are part-DIY at most, with a hard stop where a pro takes over.