Nice chappie behind the counter, didn't make me feel silly being in a hardware shop as most men…read moreusually give me that look 'not on a Thursday' that old mag advert look that women and DIY do not mix, but no he was most helpful, polite and friendly. Very nicely priced items and very good too! We will be back for sure!

extremely helpful ,great advice ,served with a smile n manners ,great family run hardware shop…read more,well stocked and if product that you require not in ,ordered for you with a speedy delivery cant fault the shop or owners

Brilliant little shop, if it hasn't got it , it's not worth having! Very helpful lady who owns the…read moreshop, if you need anything diy then this is the place

Really cute little ramshackle shop on Bury New Road. Prestwich Hardware is so helpful for DIY…read moreprojects, odd jobs around the house and bits and bobs that might be so tiny and inexpensive but make the difference between harmonious home and falling apart. The service from the chap (definitely the right word) is so helpful especially if you do the whole damsel in distress thing - its NOT an act I really do have no clue. But I'm an independent woman and at the moment its just me and my mum in our house. No men to do all these kind of jobs. So we have our own little tool box now - yes some of them have flowers on and were a present. But still. They can help you with the parts themselves, tools, how to do it, common pitfalls, what to do afterwards. Lifesavers but they don't have the range that say BnQ have as its a pretty small shop.

Old fashioned hardware stores are a rare thing these days when you consider that between the big…read morechains like B&Q and Homebase and the more traditional builders merchants, the DIY market must be fairly well catered for. Unusual then that Sale has two of them! Situated (rather inconveniently for anyone other than those visiting on foot!) right on the main road through Sale, this store occupies a space that is crammed with as wide a variety of stock as you could imagine, from lightbulbs to timber, step ladders to hammers. I only called in there for an energy saving lightbulb, but even then was greeted with a dazzling array of items that fell into this category... rather surprisingly they also seemed to still have a few 100 watt lightbulbs and as such had fashioned for themselves a bit of a black market for the things! Anyway, I digress. The staff were friendly, the range of stock was impressive and the prices pretty reasonable. The location is a bit of a negative since for anything requiring a car to pick it up (which I don't think is that unusual for DIY items), you have to negotiate a tortuous one way system to be able to park outside it, and then you have to 'Pay and Display' which is an un-necessary expense. Still, you can easily walk there from Sale town centre so I don't suppose it is a disaster. 3 stars, due to its location.

A DIY shop that has all you need and very helpful staff certainly a DIY shop to have a look round.read more

Old, well established business, that treats its customers with care and respect. I have nothing but…read morepraise for the way they have gone out of their way to help me with even the smallest order that many would find too much trouble. I cannot recommend W & W highly enough 11/10*********** John Eaton, St Martins, Shropshire

Wow! This place really manages to pack in a TON of DIY and household stuff. You will be amazed by…read moreeverything they stock. If you live around here, you can save yourself a trip to Rapid and buy your hammer, saw, gloves, or garden stuff here. Definitely a great little DIY shop that provides all the basics and essentials for pretty darned good prices. They don't have *everything*, but they do have a lot.

I put the stars in before the review becausethis business so deserves them, I am sure you could…read morepurchase everything that you would need to build a house from here and if it's any reccomendation then just see how many tradesmen buy from here. The staff are knowledgeableand helpful with tips and information, if they haven't got it and can't get it they will attempt to find out where you need to go to find it. Although not 'Superstore' size the stock level are amazing and the personal service is first class. From a tack and beyond this is the 'DIY' shop with a difference.

Forget B&Q, Ali's DIY shop is amazing and should be your first point of call for getting nails,…read morelightbulbs, a hammer, or whatever random piece of DIY equipment that you actually need. This place is packed to rafters with stock, and it's all reasonably priced. The customer service is great. I'm not sure if the guy serving was actually the famous Ali, but I hope he was because he was mega friendly, smiley and chatty. I love a good bot of pleasant customer service for a change. Keep things local. Next time you think about driving to B&Q, just go to Ali's instead. He'll sort you out and he'll do it with a smile on his face too.

Ali's Diy is your one stop shop for everything to do with diy, before you go to BnQ I recommend you…read morego here, the rates are very reasonable and he is very friendly. Trust me when I say I think that this shop was the reason they created the phrase 'don't judge a book by it's cover'. It is packed with everything you could ever want.

Waited till 10.22am with two other customer outside shop till shop keeper came and mumbled…read moresomething about a few minutes late then said he would be a few more minutes and kept us waiting another 10 minutes outside the shop till he unlocked the door and stood at the entrance declaring who is next? 35 minutes in all for me to be served. Boy did I wonder if he wanted my business, but the man standing outside with me said this happens all the time, so I guess the answer is a qualified no! Since I don't know how this hardware shop works but guessed it was a help your self and pay at the till because of the layout I was wrong. The passageways were blocked with product and here was the shop keeper demanding what did I want! I found this not very helpful since I am use to just wandering around picking up my purchases as I go. The net result was I was out on the street feeling like I had forgotten several items, and I had! Now I can only think this guy is not sales savvy, as if he had let me in his store ten minutes earlier I would have brought 400-500 percent more items than I had. Maybe he thought if he kept his customer at the door we would not shoplift! Shop lifting is more of a challenge unless they are items near the door! What a disappointment this store is but it's his business to run as he sees fit! Good luck mate with your plan! I won't be back well at least till 45 mins after you say your open.

Set on a side street that has easy parking proved to be deserving of previous reviews of excellence…read more. On entering this small store I became aware of the Tardis like place that it is, since my list contained electrical needs, glass replacement, glue, and brass brush to clean metal. All requirement were satisfied including advise. A far better choice than a large departmental type store where you can never find help and have to walk miles to find what you need for a small project. If your a home owner this is the place to start for that thing that will silence the wife and earn you Boy Scout point!

This is one of those shops which is so handy its hard to explain. They're officially a hardware…read moreshop and they're tucked away in a residential street but they're very very busy and rightly so. They sell everything you can think of that's remotely hardware-ish and although the prices are more than, say, the supermarket, they're dead handy so you don't mind. They're reliably open, they have a lot of staff so can always serve you and advise you. They don't mind you bobbing in just for advice, even when you don't buy anything. There's usually some kind of parking along the nearby streets so that's not a problem. There's a reassuring smell of hardware-shop-timber when you walk in - its defintely a man's domain! Lovely.