Home and garden

Helpful information on the advertising rules for products or services related to home and garden improvements.

Products relating to home and garden improvements, such as power tools and hedge trimmers, can often require the user to wear protective equipment. To avoid falling foul of the ad rules, we would always recommend any ads that depict these types of products being used should also show the user in the appropriate safety gear.

Other rules relevant to home and garden improvement ads include those concerning guarantees and warranties.

Ads must make clear each significant limitation to an advertised guarantee that has implications for a consumer’s rights. For example, if a warranty covers parts but not labour, if the guarantee applies only in certain circumstances, or consumers have to fulfill certain criteria to validate their guarantee. Furthermore, if advertisers offer a money-back guarantee our rules require advertisers must promptly refund consumers who make valid claims.

Finally, advertisers for home and garden improvements should not exaggerate the capabilities of their product and should take care to hold adequate evidence for any claims they do make, for example in relation to the performance or life-span of the product.

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Latest rulings

UAB Ekomlita t/a nuubu
- Upheld
- Internet (display)
- 11 May 2022
We partly upheld complaints against ads for kitchen knives.
LifeSafe Technologies Ltd
- Not upheld
- Social media (paid ad)
- 03 August 2022
A paid-for Facebook ad for a fire extinguisher did not cause excessive fear or distress.
UK Flooring Direct Ltd
- Upheld
- Internet (website content)
- 03 August 2022
An ad on the company’s website misleadingly implied a particular savings offer was time-sensitive.
London Planters
- Upheld
- Website (own site)
- 20 July 2022
An ad on the company’s website misleadingly implied a product was of their own design, rather than designed by a third party.

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Home and garden

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