Essential maintenance website down for, er, essential maintenance

Quick Jim, order me an RJ45 crimper. Oh b*gger

By Team Register, 20th August 2013

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B&Q won't let you do things for yourself at the moment, since its website, diy.com, has collapsed, presumably under the weight of pre-bank holiday DIYers.

The site is unavailable "due to essential maintenance", rather ironically, according to its landing page. Oddly enough, no-one on Twitter seems to have noticed that the site is down, which is probably indicative of some sort of Twitterati / DIY-enthusiast correlation study that sociologists need to get on top of forthwith. ®

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