Dept 01
Tools
Hammers, saws, spanners and drills to buy, a few to hire by the day, and sound advice.
Hand tools from £6, hire from £12 a day.
44 High Street, Tredegar
One screw, if that is all you need.
A proper hardware shop. Tools, paint mixed while you wait, keys cut, plumbing bits sold singly, logs and gas, with someone behind the counter who has done the job.
FridayClosed now. Opens at 8:30am today
KeysCutting until 5:30pm
GasLorry comes this morning
LogsPlenty, and delivered today for £5
What we do
Six things you cannot get from a shed on a retail park.
Dept 02
Paint and decorating
Emulsion, gloss and masonry paint mixed to any colour, plus brushes, rollers and filler. Tell us the room and we do the sums.
Emulsion from £14 a litre.
Dept 03
Keys cut
House, shed, padlock and old mortice keys cut while you wait. If it does not work, bring it back and we will recut it free.
Cylinder keys £5, mortice keys from £8.
Dept 04
Plumbing bits
Washers, olives, fittings and pipe, sold one at a time, so you do not have to buy a pack of twenty for one drip.
Washers from 20p, fittings from £1.50.
Dept 05
Garden and logs
Net bags of seasoned logs, kindling, compost, spades and barrows. Logs come in on Thursdays, and we will carry them to your car.
Logs £8 a net, kindling £4.
Dept 06
Gas bottles
Butane and propane bottles swapped from the locked cage. Bring your empty. Deliveries on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Exchange from £38, regulators from £24.
The paint calculator
How many tins, before you drive down.
Add up the length of all the walls, give us the height, and we work out the litres and the cheapest mix of tins. A room 4m by 3m has 14 metres of wall.
How the counter works
Four rules, since old Mr Pugh.
One screw, if that is what you need
We sell things singly by the washer, the screw and the metre, in a paper bag.
People who have done the job
Between us, we have broken most things in a terraced house, and fixed them too.
Bring it back
Unused and unmixed, within 28 days with a receipt. A key that does not turn gets recut free.
We will say so
If the job needs a qualified tradesperson or the cheaper tool will do, you will hear it from us.
Over the counter
What Tredegar says.
I walked in with a dripping tap's insides in a sandwich bag. Gareth looked at it, opened a drawer and sold me one washer for 20p. Then he told me which way to turn it and drew it on the bag.
I had a flake of paint from behind the radiator, from when my mam decorated in about 1985. Kayleigh matched it near enough that you cannot see the join on the chimney breast.
We are first-time buyers and neither of us knew anything. They have been patient every Saturday for months. Nobody has laughed at us, at least not until we have left the shop.
Questions people ask
Do you sell things singly?
Yes. Screws, washers, nails and hooks, one at a time or by weight, in a paper bag. There is no need to buy a pack of fifty.
When do you close early?
Wednesdays at 1pm, as Tredegar always has. We also shut at 4pm on Saturdays and all day on Sundays. The home page shows what is on today.
Do you deliver?
Logs, on Fridays for £5, up to five nets in Tredegar, Georgetown, Sirhowy and Ashvale. We can bring heavy things to neighbours if we are passing, and we have.
Will you cut a key from a photograph?
No. We need the key, the lock or the code. It is not fussiness; a photograph is not accurate enough, and it is not secure.
Can you match old paint?
Bring a chip about the size of a 10p, or more if you can. We can match most colours within five minutes, at no charge.
Do you take cards?
Yes, and cash, and an account for local trades if you ask Gareth nicely.
Bring the broken bit in.
Hand it over the counter and we will find you the part, or tell you what you actually need. Monday to Saturday, and until 1pm on a Wednesday.