HSS Hire Offers a Nagging Hand Over the Double Bank Holiday

Does your other half avoid DIY like the plague? Are you the victim of tomorrow never comes? Spur them into action over the double bank holiday with a Great Big Nag.

2011-04-20

SURREY, ENGLAND, April 20, 2011 (Press-News.org) That's the message from HSS Hire, the national supplier of tool and equipment hire, under its special bank holiday campaign, the Great Big Nag. It plans to reward the successfully nagged and motivated DIYer throughout the double bank holiday with discounted tool and equipment hire - AND offers a little help on the encouraging front too...

"The forthcoming double bank holiday is a great opportunity to get all those bothersome and time-consuming DIY jobs done. The Great Big Nag is about uniting people across the country to come together and finally get round to completing those long-standing DIY jobs, with a little help from HSS Hire along the way," explains Owen Whitehead, Head of Marketing at HSS Hire.

Visit the Great Big Nag website http://nag.hss.com/ where you can pick the 'DIY dodger' that best sums up your other half to create a fun personalised e-alert especially for them. It allows you to outline the DIY job that needs doing, select a photo reminder of the task at hand (to jog their memory), and to suggest a personal reward they'll receive from you if they complete the job.

There are a host of options to choose from including Unfinished Frank (tried but the tradesman finishes), Break it Becky (if it isn't fixed they'll break it) and Moaning Mike (blames everyone except themselves). HSS will offer a weekend hire voucher too - which gives you 3 days hire for less than the price of 2 days hire.

Relax over the double bank holiday knowing you'll get the perfect balance of DIY work complete and plenty of time to relax and enjoy the bumper holiday too. With your carefully constructed email, your promise of a reward and the free HSS hire voucher - valid at any HSS branch in the country - your other half will have no excuse to get those DIY jobs done quickly and efficiently for maximum bank holiday bliss!

HSS Hire has an established nationwide network of over 250 locations including a number of supercentres with extended opening hours. The company also runs a dedicated training division and offers a range of innovative hire related services including HSS LiveHire, HSS Assured and HSS Pitstop.

Stocking over 15,000 items, including ladder and patio heater, chainsaw and scarifier rental HSS are also the only company to hold a 4* British Safety Award.

Website: http://www.HSS.com

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