Thanks for your advice. I have got roofers to see our work. Some of them are so proud of the high score in checkatrade .Sofia, go to your local roofers merchant and ask for any decent roofers they would recommend.
Ask friends or family for a recommendation.
Get 3 quotes for the work that needs to be done.
Andy
It really is varied, I had a drain company come out - with very high marks on check-a-trade and lots of reasonable reviews over a year.
They had to fit a new soak-away and did the calculations and some sort of check with BR BUT made a complete mess of it, did it all wrong and badly, ended up coming back and having to completely redo it all, dig up the old crates, while I watched and checked each stage , Had to have them back to re turf, as that part of garden was ruined with the machinery , now the ground has subsided and lawn wont grow , and they are nowhere to be found!!!
gone out of business.
I used my builder to get some quotes for roof sofits and facias and the guys that turned up were not very good , just on their comments and attitude, I'm sure they left the horses at the bottom of the road , We ended up with a roofer from checkatrade.
One lot said we can just overclad the wood with plastic,
I said but isn't it rotten, they said no its fine, so i pushed a finger through a section and said, i think you had better leave .....
Other people we have had recommended are also on checkatrade and ask us to put a review on if we dont mind, so they try and keep their reviews upto date.
A very good plumber has come off checkatrade as he gets a lot of referals now by word of mouth and the cost to stay on has increased quite a lot.
I would say its difficult to say ,[/QUO
You have seen quite a few of them. It is so difficult to find good ones with reasonable price.
That about sums it up for me, unless you have contacts in building who you know you can trust to recommend a good roofer.As already mentioned, a good Roofing merchants have key account holders, these will have history.
Ask over the counter for a couple of contacts and they will likely point you the right way.
Don't forget, you need a roofing merchants. Not builders merchants
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