REPORTAGE
Like many French people, you may have repainted your entire apartment or redone your kitchen in April, during confinement. One of the surprises of the summer is that this DIY boom has not stopped, far from it! Europe 1 reveals it to you on Thursday: DIY stores saw their turnover increase by 30% in June compared to 2019 (according to the Banque de France). And in July, their sales also increased by 19% compared to the same period in 2019, according to the Federation of DIY Stores. Illustration in the Nantes region where some have discovered a vocation.
"We're not stopping!"
In Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu (Loire-Atlantique), it's a restoration workshop for doors and windows at Jannicke and Philippe. Improvised handymen during the two months of confinement, they persisted throughout the summer . "We embarked on the stripping, painting, all the barriers, the side rails, etc. And today, we continue! We said to ourselves 'we must move forward', and we have lots of projects on the way ", confides the first.
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On Clisson's side, it was Marie-Claude who turned her husband into a handyman during confinement. "He's not tinkering at all, and I tried to teach him a bit. We redid the kitchen, I made a cellar. We can't stop! The confinement clicked."
Work "over the head"
Agnes, too, spends a lot of time in DIY stores: she offers her services to French people who were not born with a key of 12 in their mouths. "When they were confined, they saw that the chandelier had been hanging for three months, that there was parquet to change ... Their interior has become their priority. Today, we made four, five quotes afterwards. - midday: there is work over the head ", she reports. The trend therefore does not seem to be about to stop yet.