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the taps and the bungs and you know so it meant I couldn't shower on my own so my mum came in and she had to hold the the things the taps like whilst I sort of like put the shower head around um you know and I just thought that's what I want the money to go towards just add just put you can you know in my mind I was like you can just buy them in like Screwfix or Argos or something and you just just something that

makes it less of a

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Joel Barlow with Tov on Joel and join us now is Screwfix top tradesperson 2026 finalist and fellow decorator Bex Haley.

Bex, welcome to the show.

We're happy to have you on and congratulations on your recent success at Screwfix Live.

Well, thank you.

Thank you for

And they have this sort of build-up process.

You've gone from the warehouse next to Screwfix, which was a nice warehouse, But to have in a QS and an interior designer and special lighting people and all sorts in the blink of an eye, when before it was your wife and daughter putting together the bar.

Have you struggled with the amount of people and your expectation of the people from there to employ more people to run this place? You

know, I would

But they're saying this is going to hamper our ability to help with the NEETs crisis.

It's echoing something that the CEO of Kingfisher said in City Home, Kingfisher's B&Q and Screwfix, that, you know, they've got like thousands of jobs they want to give to and positions they want to give to people who are NEET, but they're not going to be able to do that if they're having their business rates hiked or...

Indeed, yeah.

I mean, where do most young people, so late teens, early 20s, get their first job? It will be in retail and hospitality.

They have like four...

Do you know what they look like? They look like something you'd buy at Screwfix for some sort of building material.

They're some sort of vent for a boiler room or something.

They're the RS vent of German cars.

And can we all just, uh, before I forget, can we all keep a lookout for the weirdest advent calendar, uh, known to mankind this year? Because it, it, it...

every year, more and more companies join the advent calendar opportunity, don't they? We know that Screwfix does a lovely one.

Yeah.

Very, very happy to receive that, but there's some right old bollocks going down now.

And, I mean, the list of outages just keeps going.

Rightmove, Screwfix, BT, Cloudflare, all showing major issues.

It was everywhere.

Yeah.

80 quid.

82 pounds from Screwfix.

Yeah.

They seem really good.