Can you think of any advancements in the DIY field which would make life for the 'not very good' DIYer more easier?
I'm probably showing my age, but my first set of shelves went up with a manual hand drill (non-electric), using some special filler stuff for the screws (no rawl plugs), and a spirit level.
So what has changed 30 years later?
Now I'd make the holes in 1/10th the time with my combi, and wouldn't have to wait overnight for the whole thing to set, however getting things in the right place and planning is what takes most time for the casual DIYer. The most valuable thing for any job is easy access to information that tells you what to do. My combi won't help much if I hit an electric cable, or a pipe, or if i don't have the right fixing for whatever it is that I'm drilling (suppose I didn't know it was dot-and-dab and not hardwall).
Perhaps an app could make some of this stuff easier, like with a series of questions that it asks you before attempting a task? Ways to identify the substrate you're drilling into, checklist before starting jobs. Based on age of house, are you likely to be going into pre-stressed concrete to put up those curtains or catnic? Finding ways of ensuring for a given job description that you have as many of the bits you need before you start, and a series of things that can go wrong, and what to do about them.
The internet has a lot of this, but it's spread out over numerous youtube videos and on forums like this. It's not very easy to digest.
