Decwells DIY

They got everything, they’re pleasant, but yes, the prices are a little high!

Been searching for a travel adapter to plug my Aussie shaver in for a week now, and just as I was beginning to look like a homeless nomad, this store saved my life (ok ok, my face).
The guy who served me was very friendly and knowledgeable, and got me my adapter in 30 seconds. The female cashier was chirpy and patient while I dug out coins from the bottom of my rucksack.
Not sure if € 6.50 is pricy for an adapter but when you gotta shave, you gotta shave!

Very helpful and knowlegeable staff, central location and surprisingly large range of items.
Can confirm the price is a little over the odds, Shower head was ⁵⁄₆ euro more expensive than an online retailer, for me the jury is still out whether the time saving is worth it.

The question at Decwells isn’t whether they have what you need, but where it is in the shop.
They have provided everything we have wanted to equip our new apartment.
The staff is friendly and attentive. It is a little pricey, but worth the convenient location and one-​stop shop.

Now open ’till 6.30 most weekdays. They always have what I need. They have quality product too: drill bits for repeat use, not just for show. It’s not cheap, but for urgency, range, quality and location, that’s what I expect.

There’s plenty of little hardware shops throughout Dublin to make finding that fuse or switch plate less than worrysome. No, the worry starts when you find the store you’ve chosen is sporting the kind of prices that would only make sense if that switch plate was plated in 14k gold.
On my visit a queue had formed at the front desk that made me feel a bit Dorothy Gale in line to see the Wizard… couldn’t they just roam the shop floor? There’s enough room!
Aside from costs, which would definitely be my reason for buying keys and bundling twine elsewhere, there’s really no faulting Decwells… they mean well. The store is clean and brightly lit, and well stocked, and if you’re stuck for nails on Georges street it’s really the best place to go.

Not having the burning need to find hardware stores all that often, except when I lose my keys (a worryingly regular occurance I have to admit), Decwells serves my purposes just fine. Near enough to home to pop up should I need a new set fairly sharpish, or some other DIY thing (a less regular occurance I admit), it has all the essentials. And I reckon the price for key cutting isn’t that bad.€ 16 for 3 keys (and a super duper cool keyring with advertising on!)? Not too shabby.

Kind of expensive, and clueless.
I went into Decwells with a view to getting a number of things. First of all, a padlock. Next, a length of cable, and finally, a little yokey to be stuck on the cable (and to be fair to them, even though that was essentially the description that I gave them, they were able to figure out what I was talking about).
The padlocks were well over the odds, € 5 for the smallest one, which was useless; you’d need to spend about € 12 to get a decent one. So I decided to get that elsewhere. So Decwells failed as to padlocks.
I don’t what the going rate for lengths of cable and little yokies is, but it wasn’t overly expensive, so that was grand. But, as I said earlier, I wanted the cable and the little yokey to be attached; for the cable to be put in through one side of the little yokey, and out through the other, leaving a little loop, and the yokey crimped onto the cable to hold it in place. That was my purpose for buying the cable and yokey. The man said that he couldn’t crimp it for me, that I would have to do it myself. I mean, how could he possibly not have the facilities to crimp a small piece of metal in a hardware, yet he expects me to be able to do it home? Jesus H. Christ.
So, expensive and lame.

Although I’d like to say Decwells is great it really lets itself down on prices. It is handy and centrally located.
Went in there to buy a staple gun and they were charging € 65, the same staplegun was only € 50 in McQuillans with a box of free staples, seriously big mark down!
With even the € 2 euro stores getting on on the DIY boom I’m hoping Decwells rethink their prices somewhat.

Decwells is a great little Hardware store that compete with any of the large chains in terms of stock (if not on prices)
Over the shops two floors there is enough range to satisfy anyones hardware needs, sure the shop is a little cluttered but the staff know where absolutely everything is, and are always very helpful even if your not sure exactly what you need.
Now in terms of price, I said that maybe they can’t compete with the larger stores, this isn’t to say however that the shop is overpriced, in fact the margins between the big stores and this probably isn’t too large.
Really this is a great little store for all harware needs.