Your local independent homewares & DIY store, since 1936

Kitchen & Cookware

Cooking and enjoying meals together is an important part of modern life, and we should enjoy the cookery as much as the meal. This is a lot easier done with the correct cookware. Our wide range of kitchen and cookware makes it a breeze to saute, steam, boil and bake your way to creating favourite recipes at home.

Remember a quality set of saucepans makes up the core of a great kitchen. Here at Snape & Sons we stock a huge selection of pans, from the simple milk pan through to more specialist cookware including paella pans and even the elusive porringer. No matter what style of cooker you prefer to use we offer pans suitable for all types of hob including induction.

Our cookshop department boasts everything your kitchen needs. Whether you're a budding amateur cook or a professional chef, we've got utensils, tools and gadgets to service any requirement. We stock a collection of well reputed brands including Kitchencraft, Stellar and Judge Cookware, Pyrex and more.

Housewares & Household Essentials

Looking after your home doesn't have to be a chore. With the right cleaning products and tools to hand you can get all your household jobs done with time to spare. From time old traditional cleaning products including vim and stardrops to modern brand leaders such as Mr Muscle and Flash. We have bottles and boxes galore of chemicals and compounds to get your home clean with minimal elbow grease.

Our selection of household products cover the majority of household tasks from polishing the silverware to unblocking the slowest of drains.

Bring order to your sink and tidy the draining board with our simple solutions helping make light work of the dishes. Whether it's your turn to wash up or dry off, you know you can get the job done in almost no time at all.

Doing the laundry can be very time consuming, but there are a host of products on the market and available in store to make it both quicker and simpler. From pre-wash detergents through drying, inside on maidens or outside with washing lines and pegs, to steaming ironing get all you need to achieve perfectly pressed clothes.

Spilt wine on the sofa? Or trailed mud across the carpet? Don't worry, if the hand shampoos and stain removers we offer aren't enough, for extra deep cleans you can always try hiring our mains powered carpet & upholstry cleaner for just £10 per day. Once your items are clean and fresh we sell fabric protectors to safeguard against future accidents.

DIY & Decorating

You never have to do-it-yourself with Snape & Sons on hand. We provide a wide selection of power tools and hand tools suitable for every DIY job whether it's craft and hobby use or professional trade applications. We make sure to offer almost all our tools and sundries in singles so you don't have to buy more screws than you need or half a set of wrenches you will never use.

As a traditional DIY & hardware store we still hold stock of a huge selection of traditional ironmongery most of which is available in our own homehardware brand. We stock high quality solid brass parts and door furniture, most accessories are available in both a polished brass finish or polished chrome plated.

With several dedicated suppliers we can offer a vast selection of over 25,000 ironmongery and DIY products, most of which are available to collect in store within 24 hours of your enquiry.

Of course, once you've completed your DIY task our selection of decorating sundries and accessories will help you finish the job. We stock a large selection of paints and varnishes suitable for all surfaces and everything you'd need to achieve the perfect finish and even tidy up afterwards. Even if you'd prefer to wallpaper don't fret, wallpaper steamers, pasting tables and all the necessary sundries are also available in store.

Lighting & Electrics

Choosing the right lighting is essential to creating the perfect ambience in your home. Illuminate the space, create a focal point or save money on energy, whatever your goal, our selection of interior and exterior lighting and electrical products will provide something to suit.

With over 300 varieties of light-bulb from traditional incandescent lamps, to cutting edge energy saving LED technology. Our helpful and friendly staff are all well versed in the possible options available and are always on hand to guide you through what is the modern light bulb minefield.

We also stock a range of electrical parts and accessories to help with any job. Whether you're simply changing a plug or a tradesman rewiring some lighting we're sure to have what you need from terminal block connectors and co-axial plugs to electrical cable sold by the metre.

Fireside & Heating

Finish off the focal point of your home with our fireside range. Not only do our fireside accessories help complete a fireplace aesthetically but they all provide function as well. Our log baskets and coal hods will save on a few trips to the fuel store. The companion set has everything you could need to keep your fireplace clean and burning effeciently. While a fireguard will protect little hands as well as your carpet from embers.

Sometimes though, even with a fire you might need a little extra to take the chill off. Depending on your requirements we have, fan heaters, halogen heaters, convector heaters and efficient oil-filled radiators.

If you're looking for a truly special focal point to heat you're home, we now supply multi-fuel and wood burning stoves. Please contact us for more information and to request your free survey.

We stock a range of solid fuels including kiln-dried logs and firelighting sundries all year round. you can find our prices on our dedicated website, www.foundrystoves.uk