Informative DIY website and app launched to help users with projects
Skil is distributed locally through Bosch Power Tools South Africa. Senior brand manager Juergen Lauer reveals that the ‘DIY 4 Beginners’ platform is available as a website, mobi site, and a mobile app for Android and Apple devices.
“DIY 4 Beginners offers easy to follow instructions for 50 different DIY tasks to make your home and garden more attractive and comfortable. These include step-by-step instructions, handy tips, and tool recommendations. There are step-by-step instructions on how to install, build, decorate and improve a variety of items in and around the home,” he explains.
Projects listed and explained on the website include; applying silicone sealant, building a deck, burglary prevention, a variety of articles on drilling, articles on fitting a door lock, kitchen cupboards and shelves, hanging a mirror or painting, and how to insulate.
Lauer points out that the website and app also provide a comprehensive and insightful list of tools explaining which tools are best suited to a particular task, and how best to use them. In addition to the helpful information on the various tools that can be used, the DIY for Beginners platform also provides a useful list of DIY tips to assist people with all their DIY projects.
“The website also provides over 50 DIY tips to ensure that all projects are completed with the least hassle and problems. These tips include; an anti-splitting trick for working with wood, how to drill at an angle, how to drill holes in glazed tiles without damaging them, and how to remove nails without damaging the wood,” adds Lauer.
According to Lauer, “Skil’s DIY for Beginners ensures that DIY enthusiasts have all the information that they need right at their fingertips,” he concludes.
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About Bosch Power Tools
The Power Tools Division of the Bosch Group is the world market leader for power tools, power tool accessories and measuring tools. In 2013, its roughly 19,000 associates generated sales of 4.0 billion euros, 90 percent of which outside of Germany. With brands such as Bosch, Skil and Dremel, the division stands for customer focus and great engineering progress. The core success factors are innovative strength and pace of innovation. The division generated about 35 percent of its sales in 2013 with products that have been on the market for less than two years. In 2014 Bosch Power Tools will again launch more than 100 new products onto the German market in its four business segments power tools, accessories, measuring tools and garden tools.
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. In 2013, its roughly 281,000 associates generated sales of 46.1 billion euros. (NB: Due to a change in accounting policies, the 2013 figures can only be compared to a limited extent with the 2012 figures). Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Automotive Technology, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 360 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 50 countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. In 2013, the Bosch Group invested some 4.5 billion euros in research and development and applied for some 5,000 patents. This is an average of 20 patents per day. The Bosch Group’s products and services are designed to fascinate, and to improve the quality of life by providing solutions which are both innovative and beneficial. In this way, the company offers technology worldwide that is “Invented for life.”
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Juergen Lauer
Senior Brand Manager
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