These are the main home-DIY fails suffered by Sheffielders during lockdown

However, the upswing in DIY has also seen a surge in disasters, with 25 per cent revealing they’ve suffered a DIY fail in lockdown.

According to the research, commissioned by shelving and storage specialist BiGDUG, 47 per cent of people have undertaken more DIY during the past three months, with building sheds, laying decking, and painting garden furniture amongst the most common botched jobs, leading to upsets and injuries.

Eight per cent of DIY-ers in Sheffield have injured themselves, with 20 per cent drilling through a body part, 20 per cent hitting a body part with a hammer, 20 per cent suffering an eye injury, and 20 per cent sustaining an injury which led to hospitalisation.

60 per cent of those surveyed in the city also admitted they would usually have gone to the hospital with their injuries, but decided against it due to Covid-19.

Of the 24 per cent of Sheffielders that chose to abandon their DIY projects, reasons for quitting included feeling as if they were making the problem worse, being unsure what they were doing, feeling the project was too time-consuming, or injuring themselves.

On average, people in Sheffield have undertaken four more DIY projects during lockdown, occupying around six days.

And 26 per cent admitted that home DIY had helped to keep them sane during lockdown.