Men are increasingly losing their DIY skills as females become more efficient when it comes to home improvements, a study has discovered.

It has been found that young men are less than half as likely to know how to carry out tasks that include changing a plug and bleeding a radiator, while there is only a 35 per cent chance that men between 18 and 24 could perform any specific task, according to research from AA.

On the other hand, women aged between 18 and 24 are more capable of assembling pack furniture and equally as likely to be able to fully wallpaper a wall.

Tom Stringer, head of AA Home Emergency Response, said: "Home maintenance skills are very much on the wane and that increasingly people need someone they can trust to sort out problems around the home."

Ideal Home Improvement ambassador George Clarke recently commented on the UK's DIY market, claiming that more Britons are now carrying out home renovations.